by cagneyfan » Fri Apr 04, 2014 10:23 pm
That picture is cut off. The post office weighs my envelopes and tells me that they are flat parcels because they have cardboard in them and say DO NOT FOLD. So they charge me $2.32 for the 9 x 12 SASE and $2.50 for the 10 X 13. At first they said $1.73 and $1.81 but changed their mind to the parcel thing. I asked them if I went the cheaper route, could a postal clerk or whoever determine that there is not enough postage and do a RTS and they said yes. So I figure I should pay the flat parcel rate to be safe but I still think it's a ripoff. I would really like to know if I am paying more than I should, going by the actual definition of what my envelopes constitute in the postal guidelines in the U.S. Does anyone know if the post office designating my envelope with stiff cardboard in it is a flat parcel and subject to that charge? And how, or who, and where in the travels of the envelopes might decide that the postage is inadequate? In other words I wish I knew exactly what happens in the life of these envelopes as they travel to and fro. Maybe I'll research it once and for all. BTW - I already asked postal clerks and managers but of course they didn't know for sure.
That picture is cut off. The post office weighs my envelopes and tells me that they are flat [b]parcels[/b] because they have cardboard in them and say DO NOT FOLD. So they charge me $2.32 for the 9 x 12 SASE and $2.50 for the 10 X 13. At first they said $1.73 and $1.81 but changed their mind to the parcel thing. I asked them if I went the cheaper route, could a postal clerk or whoever determine that there is not enough postage and do a RTS and they said yes. So I figure I should pay the flat parcel rate to be safe but I still think it's a ripoff. I would really like to know if I am paying more than I should, going by the actual definition of what my envelopes constitute in the postal guidelines in the U.S. Does anyone know if the post office designating my envelope with stiff cardboard in it is a flat parcel and subject to that charge? And how, or who, and where in the travels of the envelopes might decide that the postage is inadequate? In other words I wish I knew exactly what happens in the life of these envelopes as they travel to and fro. Maybe I'll research it once and for all. BTW - I already asked postal clerks and managers but of course they didn't know for sure.
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