"We Care" - USPS - My surprise yesterday...

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Originally Posted by steve B

The packages go through machines too.

Tracking isn't supposed to be available on anything that's under 3/4 of an inch thick, unless it's priority. Even stuff ridgid enough to be classed as a package can't have tracking under 3/4 inch.

There's the letter sorter, flats sorter, package sorter.......Not much human work aside from loading the machines.
I'm not sure about the flats and package machines, but the machines that do letters handle as many as 30,000/ hour.

Private carriers aren't really any better.

Steve B

I have sent over 2000 postcards with tracking in a small rigid mailer that is only as thick as the rigid mailer itself with never an issue. And as a postcard collector I receive similar packages the same way from ebay sellers weekly. I had one USPS clerk tell me I couldn't send a package like that with tracking, but she let me do it anyway when I told her I do it all the time.