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Originally Posted by buymycards
Remember, if you use the packing peanut to qualify for delivery confirmation, you can't use the letter rate or the flats rate, because this item is now a parcel. A 2 ounce parcel is $1.39.
If your package is rigid it does not qualify to be a letter or a flat. It is a parcel.
If your package is not of uniform thickness it becomes a parcel.
If your parcel is thick enough (3/4") to use delivery confirmation, then it is too thick to be a letter, and it is probably too rigid or not of uniform thickness, so it becomes a parcel.
These rules don't seem to be uniformly enforced by the PO clerks, partly because they don't understand the rules, or they don't want to upset the customers, so some clerks just take the easy way out and don't enforce the rules.
I understand the reasoning behind these rules, except I have never understood why the item needs to be 3/4" thick in order to use DC, unless it is sent by Priority Mail, and then the thickness rule no longer applies.
Rick (Postmaster-Prairie du Chien WI)
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The way it was explained to me............and the clerk I talked to found this way in the recesses of the USPS handbook, it comes down to this.
If it's a letter.......it can't have Delivery confirmation, if it's a Parcel, it can.
The 3/4" of an inch thing was just to determine if something can be sent letter post, instead of parcel post.
Maybe it's been changed since, I don't know.......but it makes no logical sense as it seems to be being interpreted by many.
At least if they're using it to determine letter rate and the more expensive parcel rate, there is some logic to that. It seems to me it's just getting misinterpreted by many within the Post Office as it is.
Why would USPS give Paypal/Ebay the go ahead to use the 1st Class Parcel Mail option in their software and not be perfectly clear about an alleged 3/4" inch thickness requirement on all packages sent that way?