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Originally Posted by Jim65
People do this because if a envelope isn't at least 1/4" thick, its not eligible for tracking. A few packing peanuts solves that problem.
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Yeah, I never understood that. 1/4" inch isn't that much. between a couple pieces of cardboard and the surrounding packaging and you have yourself an easy 1/4" inch. Anyways, I think if you go deep enough into the handbook, you find an "or"..................as in 1/4" inch.........or........the package is a rigid.
Been shipping that way with tracking for over 20 years without an issue. 1000's of packages.
Well.............maybe one. Over 10 years ago, I think an overzealous clerk sent a package back to me with that 1/4" inch notation, from around the Philadelphia area. Went and dug up in the handbook the full definition of the dimensions of package tracking for 1st Class Mail, brought it back to my branch office, and they just threw it back in the system and it eventually got where it was going.