[78-L] USPS strikes again

[Roger Wade]

Hi David,

You were screwed by incompetents.  Even my 16x16x8 boxes can go by First Class Mail International if they are under 4 pounds.  Print out your labels online, entering the dimensions as necessary, and you will save a lot of trouble at the counter staffed by philistines and northern rednecks, not to mention money. 13x13x5 always goes First Class International if under 4 pounds.  The clerks you dealt with do not understand the regs.

Roger Wade
Really Old Records

On Mar 29, 2013, at 11:03 PM, David Lennick wrote:

> Here's a new one. Yesterday I made one of my increasingly rarer trips over the 
> border to ship some parcels, including a few for Europe and Asia. They have a 
> new way of calculating how much money they're going to snatch from your 
> pockets, involving measuring the width of the parcel plus the girth, and adding 
> the two figures. If it's over 42 inches, the package goes by Priority and you 
> fill out the large CP 72 Customs Declaration and you give them a lot of money. 
> Less than 42, the smaller CN 22 form and not as much money. Nobody at this PO 
> seemed to understand why this was now the case, and I don't understand how I 
> can go online and look for shipping costs on a 13x13x5" package and come up 
> with around $35 but USPS will tell me that the same parcel (whose length+girth 
> totals 49") will cost around $48. "Girth" is front to back, down and back 
> around to the front of the package. Does any of this make sense and does 
> anybody have the foggiest idea if it's being applied correctly? Weight of the 
> parcel didn't seem to figure (one of the packages was definitely under 4 pounds 
> but still cost $51.05 to send).
> 
> dl
> 
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