[ForSale-Swap] CONUS?

[Sheldon Daitch]

Doc,

New Jersey isn't something special, except that each
example Pete showed, for shipping out of NJ was to
Zone 8.

One can make the same comparison for your zip,
34467, in computing the shipping to California or
to Hawaii, the same 45 pound box is $83.65 for
priority mail or $40.99 for standard rate mail, to
either location.

By the same token, if Pete mails
that same box from NJ to TX (55943), he pays
less than you will pay, $46.55 priority rate,
$24.48 standard rate.

Is the on-line calculator "wrong" because it
gives different rates for the same weight, or
is it possible that the USPS scales are giving
a different weight than you are using?  If the
USPS terminal rates are different for the
exact same weight than indicated via the on-line
calculator, there has to be a programming error.

With that said, about 15 years ago, I had a
problem with the IRT terminals at the USPS/APO
in mailing a large quantity of boxes from APO
Germany to the DC area.  The USPS rate chart
had the destination as one zone, but the
IRT terminals in the APO were calculating the
postage rate as the next higher rate zone.  I paid the
higher rates under protest, but with copies of all the
receipts, I filed a complaint with the Military Postal
Service and received a refund.  Their terminals did
have incorrect data.

A year or so earlier, I mailed a package from Hawaii
to APO Philippines, and the package was charged as
zone 8 postage.  I later determined that the correct rate
is zone 1 postage, a little known rate quirk for APO
mail mailed in the Honolulu area that goes over to
Hickam for delivery within the APO/FPO system.  A
letter to the Honolulu postmaster netted me a refund
for the over charge.

73
Sheldon
WA4MZZ


doc wrote:o PR 50 lb package sent parcel post is $32.75

> >It is not about insults it is about math.
>
> The local PO has been telling us that the January
> price increase was going to be followed by more
> than one additional increase this year.
>
> UPS has a "fuel cost" formula to subtly increase
> their cost, not sure about FedEx practices.
>
> My experience is that the USPS online calculator
> is almost always wrong when I get to the counter,
> and always on the low side so it is more in fact.
>
> Here is an example of a 45lb package from FL to
> Hawaii and Houston:
>
> 34667 to
> 55943 TX $27.93 (5 days)
> 96716 HI $40.99 (unable to determine time to deliver)
>
> So much for "same cost" for same item to Houston, TX
> vs Hanapepe, Kauai, Hawaii
>
> Not sure why NJ would have the oddity of same cost,
> perhaps it is a USPS hub?
>
> Also, there are USPS premiums for certain sizes.
>
> --
> Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e   bibleseven.com