Post Office Issues: Paying for Postage via eBay

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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)