[78-L] USPS strikes again

[David Lennick]

This clerk (who's been there for a few years) showed me what her computer was 
indicating, and it was quite different from what I got online at home. I asked 
why this new wrinkle hadn't been applied the last time I was there 4 or 5 weeks 
ago and she said it was probably not caught but that they were now going by 
these new regs. I think I need to do some serious screaming. One of the parcels 
was going to cost so much more than the buyer had paid, I brought it back to 
ship from Canada, and our costs are no hell either (although we do have a much 
cheaper "surface mail" that may take forever but costs half as much).

dl

On 3/29/2013 11:12 PM, Roger Wade wrote:
> 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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