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Just another good reason to use regular good old postage stamps. Gives the postal jerks and education on arithmetic.
Besides buying postage stamps at 60 per cent is a great way to also save on postage.
How are you saving on postage by using stamps and what 60% are you talking about? You realize that any package over a pound with stamps on it can’t be dropped into a PO mailbox? I save money by buying my postage through endicia or Amazon for orders through there. It would cost me more to take my packages to the PO and have them weigh them and buy my postge there than the on line process.
As long as the machines doing this extra weighing are accurate, I have no problem with this. I’ve gotten enough packages with the wrong postage on them, I would appreciate this new system.
You save nothing by buying from Fleecebay, paypig or stamps etc.
Also no need to explain something that we already know as a seller with three stores we have been doing it for years. You pay top dollar and we save dollars.
Buy your stamps off of the internet. Don’t be so lazy, figure it out. Save the dollars. Lick em and Stick em.
It’s over 13 ounces, not a pound.
You use the word and instead of an but the postal people are the ones that need an education?
I had a seller return something several months ago using first class and it weighed well over a pound! No postage due either.
It’s about darn time, there are a lot of shippers that are way off on their weights. They’ll ship packages 1st class rate when it’s obvious priority weight. I saw an autoparts shipper shipping 20lbs packages as 1st class. These cheats make it more expensive for legit shippers with higher rate increases.
Buying postage online has helped me tremendously to keep my online shops open. Not convenient for me to make continuous trips to the post office. I can understand why they want to do this. Not everyone using online postage is careful or capable of doing it accurately. Others simply purpose to misuse the system. Sure there could be mistakes on their part, but if this new process allows the public to continue to use online postage, then I am all for it. If there are any mistakes on their part, I’ll deal with it when that happens. Also, it would be helpful for them to catch any mistakes I might have.
It’s more of a problem then you know/ We see companies send just about ever piece underpaid and thats 100’s of parcels