[78-L] USPS strikes again

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not news to me, USPS has been measuring parcels for some time.

If there is confusion on how to do it, I am not surprised.

joe salerno

On 3/29/2013 10:03 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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Joe Salerno