USPS Postal Change

When it comes to coins I ALWAYS use a bubble mailer as automated sorting machines can squeeze the coin right out of an envelope. I know as I have had it happen. The empty envelope arrives with a small hole on one end and an unknow postal employee went home with a smile on his face after finding an old classic on the floor. I never take that chance any more. Bubble mailer or box!

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The post office is the tap-root of Institutional rot in this country.

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Except for the 60% of their work that they pay FedEx to do.

The post office doesn't have the capacity or the motivation to enforce all this. The only thing missing from the post office are Visigoths hurling rocks at them from the parking lot.

USPS might be able to put up a "show of force" for a month or so but then they'll just have to stop fondling the mail and start delivering it. We are the only ones that can make it so by believing they can make it so and "complying"---By doing the same thing we've been doing all along--believing in the strength of rotted out oak trees.

They tried the same thing with fax machines when they first came out. They had the audacity to try and say a fax was first class mail and if you wanted to send one you had to stand in line for an hour and pay the post office to use the official postal fax machine. Turns out with fax machines the post office was basically up "expelled waste matter creek" with no means of forward locomotion.

This just might be the same thing. People aren't in the mood for bumps in envelops garbage. BTW, I read the same thing and bumps also, supposedly, include the metal clasps on the larger envelops.

What would stop someone from organizing of bit of civil dis-obedience on the Internet? Where everyone in America agrees to mail themself a nickel on a certain date. And then refuse delivery if they want more money. How hard would that be? What then will the post office do with a few hundred millions pieces of "non-compliance" mail?

They can't enforce this. Only we can enforce it for them by believing.


"He felt safe in the oak tree's presence; it was a thing that
nothing could change or threaten; it was his greatest symbol of
strength.
One night, lightning struck the oak tree. Eddie saw it the next
morning. It lay broken in half, and he looked into its trunk as
into the mouth of a black tunnel. The trunk was only an empty shell;
its heart had rotted away long ago; there was nothing inside--just a
thin gray dust that was being dispersed by the whim of the faintest
wind. The living power had gone, and the shape it left had not
been able to stand without it."

Atlas Shrugged--Ayn Rand

I only say they can't if they had to long term. They may not have to if everyone believes in their smoke and mirrors.

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The flat rate boxes also went up again. Now $8.95 or something like that. I just sent out one and was shocked at how much they have gone up in a few short years.

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I pay it with a big smile every single time I ship 50 pounds of wheat cents.

I don't know, I'll agree that the PO is one of the most poorly run businesses in the world. Ask 10 different employees the same question and get 10 different answers.

BUT, less than 50 cents to have someone pick up an envelope at my door and deliver it to my Uncle's door 3,000 miles away within a few days is pretty impressive if you ask me. The punk kid next door won't lick the stamp for half a buck.

Anyone else notice that you can't do Delivery Conformation on small packages? Kinda irks me cause I used to offer it to all of my customers.

DC availability has actually improved. It has always needed to be 3/4 of an inch thick, it doesn't any more.....

http://pe.usps.gov/Archive/Html/DMM...810/S918.htm

Even a machinable parcel under 3/4 is eligible for it now.

Regular flat business envelopes have never been eligible.

Maybe because they have no idea where Austrakia is? Poor plane flyin' all over the world lookin; for it.