USPS cracking down on media mail shippers

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: Shaftatplanetquake

Originally posted by: preslove
Wow, a good post after the troll fest. The OP should print that stuff out and just take it with him every time he goes to the post office and say, "STFU and do your easy, overpaid job!!!"

Agreed. About 40% of the postal clerks in South Carolina are head cases. But also, about 40% of the population of South Carolina are head cases. What is my point, you ask?

What is your point?

 

[FelixDeCat]

If I had a nickel for every noodnick planning to ship cpus/harddrives/etc via media mail in FS/T, Id have a wad of cash.

 

[The Batt?sai]

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
If I had a nickel for every noodnick planning to ship cpus/harddrives/etc via media mail in FS/T, Id have a wad of cash.

amazon tells you to do it lol

 

[ryan256]

Originally posted by: BAMAVOO

Originally posted by: quasarsky
usps should stop whining. they make enough off stamps as it is

What a stupid comment. How about you drive your letter across the country.

Sure.. no problem! And while I'm at it I'll take a bunch of other mail with me. My S-10 can hold probably about 30k-35k letters in the back. So when everyone pays me $0.39 to take their letter I'll have $11,700-$13,650. Hmm... you think thats enough for gas money?

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: ryan256
Sure.. no problem! And while I'm at it I'll take a bunch of other mail with me. My S-10 can hold probably about 30k-35k letters in the back. So when everyone pays me $0.37 to take their letter I'll have $11,100-$12,950. Hmm... you think thats enough for gas money?

Sure thing. Also, remember that you pick up those 30k-35k individual letters from their homes and deliver it to 30k-35k different locations all around the world.

 

[sswingle]

I've never had problems sending media mail. They just stamp it and take my money. Quite often though, they'll tell me 1st class is the same price and just send it that way anyhow.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: pulsedrivein fact it doesn't even cover all the budget, which is why the Federal Gov has to subsidize them as well.

IIRC, the post office hasn't been subsidized for years

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Glavinsolo
Or, Media Mail is not for sales it is only for library use.

Isn't Columbia House the biggest Media Mail shipper of all?

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: ryan256
Sure.. no problem! And while I'm at it I'll take a bunch of other mail with me. My S-10 can hold probably about 30k-35k letters in the back. So when everyone pays me $0.37 to take their letter I'll have $11,100-$12,950. Hmm... you think thats enough for gas money?

Sure thing. Also, remember that you pick up those 30k-35k individual letters from their homes and deliver it to 30k-35k different locations all around the world.

Plus they have to be sorted as well, among other things.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: quasarsky

Originally posted by: BAMAVOO

Originally posted by: quasarsky
usps should stop whining. they make enough off stamps as it is

What a stupid comment. How about you drive your letter across the country.

email moron. well email until they start taxing that :roll:

Wow, you're just racking up the stupid comments in this thread. And pretty much every other thread you post in.

 

[ballmode]

we need teleporters like in startrek

 

[feralkid]

Originally posted by: quasarsky

Originally posted by: BAMAVOO

Originally posted by: quasarsky
usps should stop whining. they make enough off stamps as it is

What a stupid comment. How about you drive your letter across the country.

email moron. well email until they start taxing that :roll:

How would the OP go about emailing a text book?

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: feralkid
How would the OP go about emailing a text book?

Easy. Scan it in page by page. Email the scans. Of course, that isn't legal and is quite time consuming. But I guess it must be better than actually paying money to do the job right.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: quasarsky

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
If I had a nickel for every noodnick planning to ship cpus/harddrives/etc via media mail in FS/T, Id have a wad of cash.

amazon tells you to do it lol

Its still illegal. Those threads should be locked and the people banned.

 

[sygyzy]

They have been crackign down for years. The only time I have ever used Media Mail was indeed to mail a single book and they were very suspicious of me. They cut open the box but played it off like "Oh, we do this to everyone." bceause they could tell I was visibly upset (not angry, just a surprised facial expression). It's sort of embarassing to have that happen. But it's cool when they pull out a book and they look silly. I can see why they do it though so I guess I don't blame them. Here's a tip. Next time you go to the post office, bring your books in the box but DO NOT TAPE IT. Then they can inspect it and use their tape to close it up for you.

Edit: ooops, I saw that the OP already mentioned the tip.

 

[HermDogg]

USPS is not subsidized by the federal government, hasn't been for a few years. They are still a quasi-governmental company, in that they are federal employees, but the government doesn't give them money. And ifi you actually look at it, shipping packages USPS is usually way cheaper than UPS for the same delivery times. That's why UPS/FEDEX/Airborne all use the PO to drop off packages at the door - they still make a profit after they pay PO rates. And before we get into the "USPS always screws up my package," remember that they literally handle BILLIONS of pieces of mail a day. Of course they're going to screw a few up. Percentage-wise, I would wager it's no more than any other delivery company (and significantly less than UPS).

And no, I don't work at USPS, but both of my parents do (well one's retired, but you get the point). And if they were to be spun off into a private company, mis-management would put them in the toilet so fast your head would spin.

 

[Zombie]

Had to read 10 posts to figure out WTF media mail is. OP you suck at rants.

 

[newbiepcuser]

Originally posted by: sygyzy
They have been crackign down for years. The only time I have ever used Media Mail was indeed to mail a single book and they were very suspicious of me. They cut open the box but played it off like "Oh, we do this to everyone." bceause they could tell I was visibly upset (not angry, just a surprised facial expression). It's sort of embarassing to have that happen. But it's cool when they pull out a book and they look silly. I can see why they do it though so I guess I don't blame them. Here's a tip. Next time you go to the post office, bring your books in the box but DO NOT TAPE IT. Then they can inspect it and use their tape to close it up for you.

Edit: ooops, I saw that the OP already mentioned the tip.

Reminds me of almost embarassing story...I didn't know I grab the "media/letter" envelope for international postage. I just wanted an envelope to fit what I was sending. The post manager starts feeling the envelope, and says this isn't a letter. I almost freaked, I was sending novelty flavor condoms to my friend in Macau as gag gift. I thought the postal worker was going to open it, and she knows me from sending packages to Taiwan etc all the time. She just made me fill out some more forms and she put that package envelope into another one. I just listed in the international form I was sending ballons.

 

[DougK62]

It's a government run business - that's all that needs to be said. USPS loses money like crazy and always will.

 

[bleeb]

PWNED!

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: DougK62
It's a government run business - that's all that needs to be said. USPS loses money like crazy and always will.

Try again.
Actually the US mail has made a money, at leats during the Clinton years.

12/2000
Under federal law, only the Postal Service can handle or charge postage for handling letters. Despite this virtual monopoly worth some $45 billion a year, the law does not require that the Postal Service make a profit -- only break even. Still, the US Postal Service has averaged a profit of over $1 billion per year in each of the last five years. Yet, Postal Service officials argue that they must continue to raise postage at regular intervals in order make up for the increased use of email.


USPS -- One Big and Busy Outfit
Today, the U.S. Postal Service:

Delivered mail to 134 million delivery addresses, including 20 million post office boxes. About 1 million new addresses are added each year.
Carried more mail to more people over a larger geographic area than any other country
Served 7 million customers daily at one of 38,000 postal retail outlets
Employed 750,000 career mail carriers, including 235,985 veterans and 47,937 employees with disabilities
Leased more than 27,000 facilities at a cost of $727 million a year, providing tax revenue to thousands of communities
Paid $1.6 billion in employee salaries and benefits every two weeks

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: DougK62
It's a government run business - that's all that needs to be said. USPS loses money like crazy and always will.

The USPS is one of the only government run agencies to turn a profit.

 

[Kanalua]

I got busted shipping books and journals in Media Mail. Journals are not allowed...BUSTED!

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Zombie
Had to read 10 posts to figure out WTF media mail is. OP you suck at rants.

Zombie, you suck at knowing what media mail is. Who doesn't know what media mail is?

 

[GrammatonJP]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
It just depends on the post office. My local post office (town of 60,000) is mostly nice people. One of the clerks isn't that way. She seems to think everyone is trying to steal something. She thoguht I was cashing a stolen money order because it came from out of state. One of my friends who went in (I had never said anything about the woman) was accused of trying to fake stamps by the same person. Everyone else there is nice though.

Yeah, we have 2 post office, i'm in the middle of 2 towns.. and one woman was such a bitch, i never went back to that one.. my current one across the street are really nice..