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yet they still charge a $15 surcharge on their own boxes, we voiced our opinions, didn’t stop them. They scrapped it because it would have wiped out another 2/3’s of their mail but Dejoy would have got what he wanted, end of the USPS
“It also cited added costs of manual processing to both USPS and the customer.”
But before the machines were there, the costs were WAY less.
I do not understand this. But, all I do is round up to the next highest measurement when calculating the size of my package. Note while the outside mailer may be a bubble mailer the insides are stiff and unbendable.
I betcha DeJoy got an earful from the big companies that ship in the plastic bags – like LLBean sending clothing, for example…. !!!! Little people don’t get heard but the big companies will!
I’ve shipped in polymailers FOR YEARS.
I’ve tucked & taped excess polymailer FOR YEARS.
This simply made sense to me. Logic says that if there’s extra polymailer hanging over whatever is packed inside, it WILL get caught in the USPS machinery. It’s not rocket science.
Would this have included their own soft padded Priority Mail envelopes???????
You know they are going to figure out hey are losing money giving packaging away for free & will stop that practice. Just as soon as DeJoy figures that one out.