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08-30-2007, 11:26 AM #11
Don and all,
I did pay the postage due (was the only way to get the package). I have no animocity towards the trader as I would have shipped the card in the exact same fashion with the exact same postage. Now - here is the interesting part. My father-in-law came home yesterday with something his local postal clerk had given him upon inquiry - a spare copy of the template they use to deem something a large envelope or a package! We've looked at it, and the big gray area is one stipulation that deems it either a large envelope or a package, that stipulation being flexibility. If the package isn't flexible, it constitutes as being a package. Ok....so what is the definition of flexibility? Answer, whatever the postal clerk holding your package deems it to be. The good news is the postal clerk that handed this template out defines a large envelope as anything that fits through the template - bubble mailer or not! In short, I found where I am mailing out my mailers from now on!
- Scott
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08-30-2007, 11:30 AM #12
Scott,
The lady at my local PO is also giving me the better deals on bubble mailers. She thinks the same...if it fits the template, I get the cheaper shipping rate. Now on the other hand, there is another PO 10 minutes the other way that always charges me the higher rate for bubble envelops. I know where my favorite PO is now too.
Don
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08-30-2007, 04:39 PM #13
the problem with finding a postal worker who will give you the better deal is. if the post office who delivers it to the person you are sending it to determine that there is not enough postage he gets charged and you look bad. remember postage is determined twice. once when you mail it by your post office and then second when it is delivered to you. just hope that helps.
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