[78-L] USPS strikes again

[Mike Harkin]

I remember  when I was a kid, back in the 40s-50s, posters on the wall at
the PO warning that if your parcel was too big, the PO wouldn't take it.  Too
big was defined as more than 70 inches length plus girth; how to measure
properly was clearly illustrated so that any idiot or postal clerk could see!

Standards of service -- what's that?????

Mike in Plovdiv

--- On Mon, 4/1/13, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com <neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com> wrote:

From: neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com <neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] USPS strikes again
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Monday, April 1, 2013, 11:51 PM

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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