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messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,141 ✭✭✭✭✭
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.

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  • My post office has never stopped me from doing it
  • INXSINXS Posts: 1,202
    Mine either, with priority mail its automatic.
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  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <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.

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  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,151 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I've found a couple of those orange circus peanuts work just as well. >>

    Man, I love those things!
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And it's a tasty treat on the receiving end! image

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  • itsnotjustmeitsnotjustme Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭
    Walnuts and acorns work too.

    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.
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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <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
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,151 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I thought size didn't matter? At least that's what I've always been told image
  • IrishMikeIrishMike Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭
    John, they have never mentioned that to me before. In fact they always ask if I want delivery confirmation.
  • zeus135zeus135 Posts: 1,043
    I've been told that before too John. My local Post Office teller does me a "favor" by allowing the Delivery Confirmation on packages less than 3/4" thick. Sounds like it depends how strict the individual offices want to be.
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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <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
  • eyoung429eyoung429 Posts: 6,374


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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. >>




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  • VamGuyVamGuy Posts: 1,624
    As Russ said, the "rule" is 3/4 inch. I use a packing peanut on each side of the slab. Extra protection and it satisfies the rule requirement.

    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. image When I got the package it looked like it had been run over with a steam roller. Luckily the coin was raw & subsequently undamaged.

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  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,141 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <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.
  • Actually I found out today that DELIVERY CONFIRMATION is FREE with Priority Mail if done online either through PayPal or USPS website. However, if you walk into the post office with a Priority Mail item, they charge you 35 cents for it.
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  • JoshLJoshL Posts: 656 ✭✭
    You need to find a new post office. I do it all the time with no problem.
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