Delivery confirmation

Learned something new today at the post office. If you want to send something with delivery confirmation, it has to be at least one inch thick. A flat, bubble mailer with a couple coins in it doesn't meet that criteria, but if you add a couple styrofoam peanuts it does.
John
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<< <i>Learned something new today at the post office. If you want to send something with delivery confirmation, it has to be at least one inch thick. A flat, bubble mailer with a couple coins in it doesn't meet that criteria, but if you add a couple styrofoam peanuts it does. >>
Do the peanuts have to be styrofoam? I've found a couple of those orange circus peanuts work just as well.
peacockcoins
<< <i>I've found a couple of those orange circus peanuts work just as well. >>
Man, I love those things!
peacockcoins
The employee pulled this from the section of postal Regs titled "Annoying those you dislike"
These regs are optional, to be enforced slectively against those disliked by the PO.
<< <i>If you want to send something with delivery confirmation, it has to be at least one inch thick. >>
Whoever told you that is wrong, but close. It's actually 3/4" thick.
Russ, NCNE
<< <i>My local Post Office teller does me a "favor" by allowing the Delivery Confirmation on packages less than 3/4" thick. >>
If you ever get a dickhead on the other end, your recipient is going to get hit with postage due fees up to the cost of Priority Mail.
Russ, NCNE
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<< <i>Learned something new today at the post office. If you want to send something with delivery confirmation, it has to be at least one inch thick. A flat, bubble mailer with a couple coins in it doesn't meet that criteria, but if you add a couple styrofoam peanuts it does. >>
Do the peanuts have to be styrofoam? I've found a couple of those orange circus peanuts work just as well. >>
OH CRAP!!!!!! The REAL toning secret is out!!!! why oh why???????
Hell, I don't need to exercise.....I get enough just pushing my luck.
I've had one bad experience when I shipped a coin from Florida to California using this process. According to the ink stamped label on the package when I got it back two weeks later, it was determined to be below the minimum thickness while in California (it wasn't when I sent it), and so it was returned to me all the way back here in Florida.
The moral of the story...
Even when it's not your fault, it's your fault.
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<< <i>Mine either, with priority mail its automatic. >>
This was for first class, not priority. Since the season is approaching, I think we may have stumbled across another use for marshmallow Peeps™. I like Circus Peanuts better, though, so I'll use those to stuff mailers when I need to use delivery confirmation.
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