[QUOTE=Pleonast]
I used up all my numerated stamps and only have forever stamps now. Rate changes will be trivial for me in the future.
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Except if you mail any envelope over one ounce, not flat, oversize or square.
Quick, now, what’s the postage in forever stamps for a non-bendable, 9x9 envelope that weighs 4 ounces?
[QUOTE=mwbrooks]
Every card was delivered, including the dozen or so that just had an X where the stamp should be.
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I think the Post Office’s QC has improved since then. I mail out a few hundred letters or postcards for a local organization, all hand-stamped, and I occasionally get one or two back where someone missed a stamp in a batch.
[QUOTE=runner pat]
What stamp did you use? The Liberty bell stamps are “Forever Stamps”.
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I think the situation that the OP presented was a lot of the reason for the USPS to come up with the “forever stamp”. It makes everyone happy. People don’t have to worry and the USPS doesn’t have to behave like a bunch of penny-pinching jerks. Win-win!
All you amateur investors have a new venue for your money. Invest in postage stamps! (Ah, the good ole’ days when you could buy subway tokens before the fare increase and make an easy 20% on your money.)
[QUOTE=Colophon]
They identify them on security cameras, and next time they come in the store, an alarm sounds in the kitchen and everyone wipes that customer’s 100% beef patty over their big hairy ol’ butt cheeks.
Legal disclaimer: the above might not be true. Please don’t sue me, Ronald.
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Hmmmm… Maybe THAT’S what gives Big Macs that SPECIAL McDonald’s flavor. :eek:
[QUOTE=IAmNotSpartacus]
If USPS was a business then they’d just deliver the mail because sorting out a letter missing 1 cent is going to cost them more than just letting it go through.
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Surely not. Once they have the letter in the system, it effectively costs the same to deliver it to the recipient as to return it to the sender (less, maybe, if it gets caught early, since it won’t get shipped out of the arrival post office/sorting station). However, the potential costs of having a policy of overlooking underpayment will certainly be high, as people will realize that they can just not pay as much postage as required.
[QUOTE=control-z]
I ran afoul of their new security rule that Priority Mail Envelopes over a certain weight have to be presented at the counter. The delivery time on Priority is supposed to be 3-4 days, but it was 3 or 4 WEEKS before they bounced the mail back to me.
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Online postage can get around that rule.
If you have a Paypal account there’s a link to go straight to the “Make Electronic Postage” page.
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_ship-now