Bassmaster96
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- Feb 5, 2014
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Okay, I'm sure everyone has got some post office stories. Clerks stroking out when your label won't scan etc. Does anyone not tape over the barcode on your labels?
I have been dropping some things at a college post office. Now, in their defense, they normally only do letters and stuff. I had to explain to them about the weight limit on a regional rate box a before and things like that. Well, today I had a SFR box, and it was taped pretty good because it had a pitman arm in it. (You vehicle guys will know what that is) It had a very small bulge on the outside of the box, and the clerk like to have lost it. They said see, the thing is, if it fits it ships. I said correct. I'm still really not sure what the issue was, but I think it boiled down to, I had too much tape on the box, and that little bulge. They suggested that I put it in a flat rate envelope instead. However, they said that they would send it if I wanted to take the risk at paying weight price. So, I told them that I had literally done it that way for years, and that I would send it like that. If the bulge was the problem, then I have sent them much worse than that and they have been fine.
Has there been new limits on flat rate boxes that I haven't heard?
I have been dropping some things at a college post office. Now, in their defense, they normally only do letters and stuff. I had to explain to them about the weight limit on a regional rate box a before and things like that. Well, today I had a SFR box, and it was taped pretty good because it had a pitman arm in it. (You vehicle guys will know what that is) It had a very small bulge on the outside of the box, and the clerk like to have lost it. They said see, the thing is, if it fits it ships. I said correct. I'm still really not sure what the issue was, but I think it boiled down to, I had too much tape on the box, and that little bulge. They suggested that I put it in a flat rate envelope instead. However, they said that they would send it if I wanted to take the risk at paying weight price. So, I told them that I had literally done it that way for years, and that I would send it like that. If the bulge was the problem, then I have sent them much worse than that and they have been fine.
Has there been new limits on flat rate boxes that I haven't heard?