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Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: Paperchasing on March 02, 2012, 04:59 am
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Is it just my area or are have all post offices "sent the old priority and express mail stamps back in" and dont have ANY priority or express mail stamps?? All of the post offices in my area are telling me they dont have any and they have not gotten the new priority and express stamps yet... WTF?
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It seems to correlate with the rumor that they were checking all the mail... Maybe they are trying to cut down on any new mail to facilitate it? Scary shit. Has anyone else experienced it?
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Thats weird, I just bought a bought load of priority mail stamps. Spent a good 5 minutes trying to figure out how much extra postage I needed for the new rates. (It always makes your packages look better if you get closer to amount of postage, Slapping a .45 stamp when your only 10cents under is a bad idea).
Try checking another post office. The post office nearby doesn't carry any $1 stamps or any other decent stamps. I have to go cross town to a more out of the way post office that has more $1 stamps than they know what to do with.
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Is it just my area or are have all post offices "sent the old priority and express mail stamps back in" and dont have ANY priority or express mail stamps?? All of the post offices in my area are telling me they dont have any and they have not gotten new priority and express stamps yet... WTF?
I've never heard of PO's "sending back" stamps. This makes very little sense. In 20 years of buying Express and Priority stamps I have never seen a retail location even have up-to-date stamp denominations the day new rates go into effect. By time most PO's get the new Priority and Express stamps delivered there will most likely be another rate increase looming. Anyway..for now I'd use 5/ $1 stamps + the remaining amt for Priority. I'm pretty sure you can also order stamps from usps.com to be delivered to you.
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The cashiers are surprisingly helpful. The cashier I had went out of her way to make sure I had as close to proper postage as possible. Heck she even pulled out 1 cent stamps.
REMINDER: ALWAYS GO AS CLOSE TO POSTAGE AS POSSIBLE, the more over postage you are the sketchier the package.
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The dude who said they "sent them back" was full of shit and MAYBE they sent them to other area post offices that were out. The POs in my area are all selling out of them and it is only because they are coming out with the new $5.15 Priority mail stamp for the new rate (same with Express.) It sucks but just use $1 stamps in the meantime or the $5 ones if you are lucky enough to live near a PO that sells those (George Washington on them I believe, big square even 5 bucks general purpose stamp.)
I have seen evidence of increase scrutiny and checking of mail lately, so vendors be on your toes. Pack every shipment as if it were going to be sniffed and xrayed and shook and everything else short of opening (until they get suspicious that is and decide what to use as probable cause for a warrant) to ID illicit mail. Also, don't do extra dumb things like dropping a large # of packages at a post office all bundled together (first red flag) with a fictitious return address on them (second, screaming red flag.) Happened recently, one of my customers was one of the recipients and thought the package came from me. Luckily I'm not that dumb ;-)
Vendors; be at the top of your packaging game. Buyers; choose your vendors wisely.
TUS
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The dude who said they "sent them back" was full of shit and MAYBE they sent them to other area post offices that were out. The POs in my area are all selling out of them and it is only because they are coming out with the new $5.15 Priority mail stamp for the new rate (same with Express.) It sucks but just use $1 stamps in the meantime or the $5 ones if you are lucky enough to live near a PO that sells those (George Washington on them I believe, big square even 5 bucks general purpose stamp.)
I have seen evidence of increase scrutiny and checking of mail lately, so vendors be on your toes. Pack every shipment as if it were going to be sniffed and xrayed and shook and everything else short of opening (until they get suspicious that is and decide what to use as probable cause for a warrant) to ID illicit mail. Also, don't do extra dumb things like dropping a large # of packages at a post office all bundled together (first red flag) with a fictitious return address on them (second, screaming red flag.) Happened recently, one of my customers was one of the recipients and thought the package came from me. Luckily I'm not that dumb ;-)
Vendors; be at the top of your packaging game. Buyers; choose your vendors wisely.
TUS
True this, I got a package from you and I was quite happy with the quality of packaging. In fact I now pack my bubble envelopes in the same way you do. Its great for the smarties as you can't feel the smarties AT all threw two layers. Also great for powder as it doesn't move around enough to be heard.
Friendly Reminder: Get real return addresses. I know it sucks if a package gets misdelivered and shows up at someone's office but its still better than having flaggable addresses. (Maybe that office worker will just be like, OH SHIT DRUGS...SNIFF SNIFF SNIFF).
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Uhh you can get them online.