No more 44 cent PWE's?
RipublicaninMass
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The clerk at the Post Office tried to take two PWE's with card savers and slim cardboard and add .20 cents on to them. I explained I have been sending many of them for years like this and they always went through. Today I got a personal letter from my postmaster today explaining a "rigid" envelope is non-machinable and is subject to additional .20 surcharge. Guess the clerk had nothing better to do than rat me out to her boss. Nice to know
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<< <i>never sent a card in an envelope but may consider as I am adding a lot of cheap stuff to my ebay listings, how do you guys send it to pass through with a stamp? >>
PWE, a card saver I, and a stamp. I've never had an issue.
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<< <i>Honestly, they have changed what they charge so often at the PO, I can take a PWE, a small bubble mailer, a jiffy mailer or whatever and on different days get different prices for each of them. I have never had a PWE returned with postage due, but I used to be able to send bubble mailers with one card for 64 cents when they classified it a "large envelope", now they classify it as a "package" which means $1.22. This was done when they supposedly "reduced" the price of packages. Oh well, more cut for ebay. Maybe eBay will buy the USPS next, so they can triple dip what is sold >>
Just kidding postage hike 1.71!
I have had this happen to me several times, it depends on the clerk.
I have not however, ever had one returned to me or with PD.
Just put a stamp and throw it in the drop box at the PO.
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<< <i>As far as postage due, they get the money from the receiver of the mail, not the sender. >>
If the receiver accepts it. If he does not it goes back to the sender, who can add the appropriate postage or
in the case we are talking about refund the buyer and possibly get a neg.
<< <i>So if my post office accepts it with a stamp and postmarks it, will the person on the other end still get charged a fee? >>
If it's also stamped 'postage due' he might. Anywhere along the line the 'postage due' stamp can be applied.
Steve
<< <i>Those postal machines can easily rip an envelope, so your better off paying the extra. >>
Oh, I wish it was that simple. My problem with the whole "non-machinable" charge is that whether you pay it or not, they machine everything. I send cards out with SASE for autographs and they're constantly mangled upon return. I've told my postal clerks that I don't mind paying the fee (prefer it, in fact), as long as they don't machine my stuff.
Never works
Take it easy,
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<< <i>Those postal machines can easily rip an envelope, so your better off paying the extra. >>
Oh, I wish it was that simple. My problem with the whole "non-machinable" charge is that whether you pay it or not, they machine everything. I send cards out with SASE for autographs and they're constantly mangled upon return. I've told my postal clerks that I don't mind paying the fee (prefer it, in fact), as long as they don't machine my stuff.
Never works
Take it easy,
Jared >>
Did you ever try and write please hand cancel on the envelope? Don't know if it would help, but worth a shot.
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<< <i>So if my post office accepts it with a stamp and postmarks it, will the person on the other end still get charged a fee? >>
I had this problem to some degree. As I said, sometimes, I would get charged the parcel rate and sometimes the large envelope rate. I just started putting the right amount of stamps on it for the envelope rate, but around the first week of Feb this year, they started adding postage due on them. After two years and about 500 bubble mailers, they started charging full rates and it pissed a few people off that had postage due. I asked the clerk if they would add postage due if it was paid for at the counter and they said NO, since they accepted the payment for mailing. I just think it wont be possible to get that anymore.
From 64 cents to 1.71 in less than 2 years for a 1 oz bubble mailer, what a joke. Now, just the postage part will cost you $1.90 since ebay and paypal take their cut. More complaining from the "I got overcharged for shipping" crybabies
Is 20 cents really a big deal? If you haven't been to a major postal facility which is fed by a bunch of smaller post offices and witnessed what an envelope goes through before it is delivered, I suspect you'd pony up the 20 cents without complaint. In my previous life as an employee, I had the wonderful task of managing the mail for a LARGE IRS facility which fed into the Atlanta postal system. We're talking many, many 10s of thousands of pieces of mail. Those envelopes get processed at a high rate of speed and go through God knows how many twists and turns like a go-kart track before it reaches the addressee.
The USPS is losing tons of money and will continue to bump up costs to slow down the bleeding...people email, don't send cards, fewer and fewer greeting cards, blah, blah, thus their cash flow has been severely dinged. Odd that the Posmaster General is paid more than the President!!
I say they almost have a monopoly (unless you send bulk via FedEx, UPS, etc) and might as well pay the piper and be done with it. You just gotta factor the cost into the sale price of your item. Kinda like gas, what can you do, walk, or pony up the coin.