US Postal Service

[Plum Crazy]

My postmistress is a witch. She is wicked nit-picky. If I need one small piece of tape she insists on me buying a whole roll instead of offering me a tiny piece off the GIANT roll she has on her counter.
Once I received a package and it was stamped POSTAGE DUE. I said NO WAY I paid shipping on this. It was in one of their boxes turned inside out (recycled) and a corner was ripped which showed the telltale red and blue stripes. I asked her what she was doing looking at my mail anyway. I had to pay the price of the box. She told me that those are postal property and those boxes cannot be used again. I think she was smoking something. That's wacked. I also think it is just her and not the entire postal system.

[WESTPORTMAFIA]

I shipped 2 ebay packages both to Cali one day. And go figure the only time I didn't insure and track both packages never made it to their destination and I had to refund the buyers.

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by Plum Crazy

Once I received a package and it was stamped POSTAGE DUE. I said NO WAY I paid shipping on this. It was in one of their boxes turned inside out (recycled) and a corner was ripped which showed the telltale red and blue stripes. I asked her what she was doing looking at my mail anyway. I had to pay the price of the box. She told me that those are postal property and those boxes cannot be used again. I think she was smoking something. That's wacked. I also think it is just her and not the entire postal system.

This is actually pretty common. You can't reuse the Priority Mail boxes. Ridiculous? Definitely, but would you expect any less from a Gov't managed organization.

[Piscator]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

This is actually pretty common. You can't reuse the Priority Mail boxes. Ridiculous? Definitely, but would you expect any less from a Gov't managed organization.

Priority boxes are FREE but they are free because you pay a premium for priority shipping and can only be used for that purpose. I'm sure you can re-use them but only if they are shipped via priority.

Priority boxes used to be blank on the inside but people would go to the post office and get as many "free" priority boxes as they needed and would flip them inside out and ship normal parcel post. Now priority boxes are printed on both side so that it can't be done anymore.

I don't work for the post office but my company makes all kinds of mail & ship supplies and this was a huge issue for the corrugate box industry.

I still don't think that you should have been charged (doesn't seem fair).

PS. My post office and delivery person are great.

Sorry for the hyjack Ronnie, might not help with this situation but if you already haven't, I would talk to your Postman just to let them know what happened................