[Milsurplus] Media Mail again!

[bcarling@cfl.rr.com]

Yes exactly.  The rules and the exceptions are both rather ridiculous.
 If you ship from a pay pal account, it automatically creates delivery confirmation.
 However if the package is between 1/4 inch and 3/4 inch in maximum thickness, it cannot be accepted by USPS rules.
I know some people have sent many packages like that for years, but now the post office is starting to grumble about it.


----- Reply message -----
From: "Sheldon Daitch" <sdaitch at kuw.ibb.gov>
To: <WA5CAB at cs.com>
Cc: <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [Milsurplus] Media Mail again!
Date: Wed, Jul 20, 2011 9:54 am


Bob,

I never realized there was a thickness requirement on delivery 
confirmation, but sure enough,
it certainly is.

http://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/503.htm#1063871

See 10.2

I am wondering if the thickness requirement is to keep letter mail 
mailers from using
Delivery Confirmation as a cheap way to get around the most costly 
Certified Mail
charges?

It looks like the 3/4-inch rule still exists, per the Domestic Mail 
Manual, but it appears
there is a workaround which allows thinner packages.  See section 10.2.2.c.

73
Sheldon
WA4MZZ





On 7/19/2011 7:53 AM, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> Delivery Confirmation is another one of those gray areas in the minds of
> the million USPS employees.  The book says that to put it on First Class Mail
> the "mail piece" must be in a "rigid container" at least 3/4" thick.  My
> Post Office used to inforce the rule with a piece of (I think) 1 by 4 with a
> 3/4" by about 15" slot cut in it.  If they could pull you package through the
> slot, it didn't get DelCnfm.  But I routinely receive mail in padded
> envelopes less than half an inch thick with the bar code printed on them.  Since we
> started printing our own postage, we just ignore the rule if we want to use
> it.  Maybe in ten or fifteen years, they'll get around to revising the
> book.
>
> In a message dated 2011-07-18 23:35:21 PM Central Daylight Time,
> kargo_cult at msn.com writes:
>    
>
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