Any thoughts on size bubble mailers to buy

[buymycards]

Hi Gary,

Most info can be found on USPS.com. You can search the DMM, or click on Postal Explorer.

If you have a lot of packages, you can print a form that can be scanned once, and that will automatically accept all of the packages that are manifested on that form.

I have never heard of charging someone for an acceptance scan. If a carrier picks up your parcel, the carrier scans it as accepted. If you bring it to the Post Office, it is the clerks job to scan it as accepted. If you put a package in the blue collection box, whoever picks up the mail from that collection box is required to scan those parcels as accepted.

I would really like to see if someone in your Post Office can show me the rule that allows them to charge for an acceptance scan. It is actually a benefit to the clerk to scan the package. Every acceptance scan generates 1 minute and 12 seconds of additional workload and that workload translates into more workhours for the clerks.

Rick

[glchen]

Rick, thanks for your feedback. Now that I think about it, could the reason for the charge be that I requested a receipt of the Acceptance scan? I think this is what the Postal Clerk may have been trying to explain to me. That I could stand in line and watch her scan the packages, but I wouldn't receive a receipt, and she wouldn't charge me. However, if I wanted the receipt for the Acceptance scan, then I would be charged. Is this it?

The reason for the Acceptance scan with the clerk is that sometimes if I drop it in the postal box whether it is inside the Post Office or in the blue collection box outside it, it doesn't always receive an acceptance scan. Here's one example of a tracking number that never received a scan even though I dropped it in a blue collection box: 9407409699938922193528

It did arrive on time, but there are sometimes when the packages are delayed a bit. Thanks again!