Advice on missing package

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by steve B

All good advice.

When I was selling, and with the occasional label I print now I print onto plain paper. So I have to tape it. I just tape around the bar code so it's just paper where the code is.

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Third, make sure the entire bar code is flat. We see a lot of labels that aren't applied correctly and the labels are wrinkled, which results in a couple of the bars in the bar code that are missing. We need to be able to scan all of the bars in the bar code. "

Would be a whole lot easier is they didn't require a non-priority mail piece to be 3/4 of an inch thick for delivery confirmation. Putting a packing peanut in the envelope makes it ok, but bulged so there's no way it will be flat.
I had one package rejected as being too thin, and when I was talking to the guy at the main PO it was pretty funny. I went home and printed out the section where it said stuff that wouldn't bend or that was 1/4 inch thick was a package as far as rates were concerned. And he had the printout that said 3/4" was the minimum for DC. What was funnier was that whoever wrote it up made it postage due, but returned it to me for more postage. But instead of writing it up for the balance between what I'd paid and priority they wrote it up for additional weight under rates that hadn't been current for around six months.
I even called the customer service in RI and asked about the 3/4 inch thing. They agreed that a flat object was much easier to handle than a puffy envelope, even for the machine. But also said that getting a rule changed could take years.

Steve B

Yeah, if it's rigid it should be a trackable package. The 3/4 inch thing is only for flexible items.

Don't know why there's people who are still in charge of Post Office depot's who haven't gotten this memo.