While I appreciate that the specifics of the use of the Flat Rate Envelope are a bit on the absurd side (70 pounds?) Americans will find that even a more prohibitive restriction leaves us with far better postal rates than most any country. With the exception of shipping bulky, weighty objects, like raw wood, the FRE is a bargain. Neither UPS FEDEX or DHL will deliver a pen across country for me for $4.60. As for wood purchases, If we need to go to the $8.95 Flat rate box, it's still a great rate.
Anyone have flate rate envelope problems?
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karlkuehn
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But who's going to eat that extra $4.35, you or your customers?
For me, it's not about the weight or the price, it's about not having to worry about the weight or the price. If I start weighing every thing that I send in flat rate envelopes, most of it is still going to be $4.60 for the regular priority shipping, it's just a hassle making sure every package is under the cut-off weight.
It's not a big deal to weigh everything out, I guess. It just irks me that I'm probably going to be forced to implement another step into my shipping process. With as much shipping as I do, that will translate into significant time loss, especially doing combined shipping on multiple orders.
Fred
Member
I had a run in with my local post mistress about three months ago. The problem she stated was in my use of tape to secure the corners and the pull tab of their sealing flap.
Long story made short ... I shipped that one by UPS for a few cents more.
In retaliation I came hone melted about 200 pounds of lead tire weights. I made a form to pour the lead in and made a large lead weight - several pounds - that snugly slipped into the flat rate device. I used no tape to seal it, it did not swell the package, but it was extremely HEAVY and hard to handle. I mailed it at my local PO in the outside drop box here in Georgia to someone way up in Washington state so that it would be handled many, many, many times by hand. He told me the deliery person said that it had to be a joke that someone was playing on him. Wrong theory!
I often wonder what it cost the PO to move that package around.
BTW, it arrived in pretty good shape considering all the effort that HAD to be used to get it there.
Long story made short ... I shipped that one by UPS for a few cents more.
In retaliation I came hone melted about 200 pounds of lead tire weights. I made a form to pour the lead in and made a large lead weight - several pounds - that snugly slipped into the flat rate device. I used no tape to seal it, it did not swell the package, but it was extremely HEAVY and hard to handle. I mailed it at my local PO in the outside drop box here in Georgia to someone way up in Washington state so that it would be handled many, many, many times by hand. He told me the deliery person said that it had to be a joke that someone was playing on him. Wrong theory!
I often wonder what it cost the PO to move that package around.
BTW, it arrived in pretty good shape considering all the effort that HAD to be used to get it there.