[Milsurplus] ... plus shipping to Hawaii

[Sheldon Daitch]

Dave,

you might have had more experience with the small flat rate boxes,
but I was thinking the small (5-3/8 x 8-5/8 x 1-5/8 inches) weren't
part of the original flat rate USPS offerings.  Seems they came
along later and are a different, slightly lower price.

I thought the first two USPS offering were the medium sized boxes:

FRB-1 11 x 8.5 x 5.5 inches
FRB-2 11-7/8 x 3-3/8 x 13-5/8 inches

Haven't both always been the same price, just different box format?

Somewhere along the line the USPS added a larger flat rate box,
12 x 12 x 8 inches, but that size is no longer a flat rate box, but is
available as a regular Priority Mail box.  When it was a flat rate
box, for some reason, I am thinking it might have been for the APO/FPO
destination market only.  I think I still have one of these boxes
in the used box pile and will verify later today, unless old age hits me
and I forget.

I think this 12x12x8 box was replaced by the 12 x 12 x 5.5 inch
size, which is available with two markings, one just marked Large
and a second version which is aimed at the APO/FPO mailing
market, at a slightly lower price.

I did a quick web search and did not find any information on  the
12x12x8 being a flat rate box to verify my thoughts on this aspect.

73
Sheldon





On 6/18/2011 3:43 PM, David Stinson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Cromwell"<wrcromwell at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] ... plus shipping to Hawaii
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>> The Flat-Rate boxes can be a pretty good deal.....
>>      
> Not if they keep shrinking them....
> I remember when you could mail a couple of control boxes
> in a "small."  Now you might be able to send a cassette tape.
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