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General Philatelic/Gen. Discussion : We should not ver burden postal clerks

 

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stampmanjack

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25 May 2016
03:22:42am
Today I sent off a large trade to a collector friend in New Jersey. It was in a medium flat rate priority box. My friend saves the stamps for me so I try to put larger pieces and setenant items.
A medium rate box costs between 11 and 12 dollars but I had almost $13 in postage on the box. Because of the number of pieces, I put several on the back of the box. My wife took the box to the post office and I told her to point that out. I also wrote on the front of the box "additional postage on back." Normally, my post office tells me "you can't do that" to everything I do but this one was different. The clerk told my wife not to put postage on the back because it
makes extra work for the clerk who has to turn it over to cancel the ones on the back. So I am asking all of you to take it easy on our postal clerks so they don't get worn out. If two of us did that to the same clerk, they would probably take a break to rest up.

These are the same employees who have done the following:

1. Told me they can not cancel regular mail with the red cancel although half of my mail comes in that way and one of the clerks working that day said that the branch she used to work at only had a red cancel.

2. Advised me that foreign postage can be insured for it value but US postage can only be insured for its face value. A set of Zepplins can be insured for about $5.00.

3. Several years ago, I received a cardboard envelope of souvenir sheets in my mailbox that was so badly soaked that everything was ruined and I could wring water out of it. I took it to the post office and got all the way up to the postmaster. At each level, I was told that because it was not insured, there was nothing they could do about it. When I talked to Postmaster, I said tat based on your explanations, That it is apparently acceptable for the post office to take a package out in the parking lot in the pouring rain and leave it in a puddle overnight and then deliver it that way with no responsibility on their part. His answer, I swear, was yes and that is why you buy insurance.

4. Don't get me started on marker or pen cancellations.

Thanks for listening to me blow off steam

Jack Leiby


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Tom in Exton, PA

25 May 2016
01:01:13pm

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"3. Several years ago, I received a cardboard envelope of souvenir sheets in my mailbox that was so badly soaked that everything was ruined and I could wring water out of it. I took it to the post office and got all the way up to the postmaster. At each level, I was told that because it was not insured, there was nothing they could do about it. When I talked to Postmaster, I said tat based on your explanations, That it is apparently acceptable for the post office to take a package out in the parking lot in the pouring rain and leave it in a puddle overnight and then deliver it that way with no responsibility on their part. His answer, I swear, was yes and that is why you buy insurance.
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and at that point they'd either want to pay you face value for them, or tell you that they were still valid for postage and to glue them on envelopes!

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stampmanjack

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25 May 2016
03:22:42am

Today I sent off a large trade to a collector friend in New Jersey. It was in a medium flat rate priority box. My friend saves the stamps for me so I try to put larger pieces and setenant items.
A medium rate box costs between 11 and 12 dollars but I had almost $13 in postage on the box. Because of the number of pieces, I put several on the back of the box. My wife took the box to the post office and I told her to point that out. I also wrote on the front of the box "additional postage on back." Normally, my post office tells me "you can't do that" to everything I do but this one was different. The clerk told my wife not to put postage on the back because it
makes extra work for the clerk who has to turn it over to cancel the ones on the back. So I am asking all of you to take it easy on our postal clerks so they don't get worn out. If two of us did that to the same clerk, they would probably take a break to rest up.

These are the same employees who have done the following:

1. Told me they can not cancel regular mail with the red cancel although half of my mail comes in that way and one of the clerks working that day said that the branch she used to work at only had a red cancel.

2. Advised me that foreign postage can be insured for it value but US postage can only be insured for its face value. A set of Zepplins can be insured for about $5.00.

3. Several years ago, I received a cardboard envelope of souvenir sheets in my mailbox that was so badly soaked that everything was ruined and I could wring water out of it. I took it to the post office and got all the way up to the postmaster. At each level, I was told that because it was not insured, there was nothing they could do about it. When I talked to Postmaster, I said tat based on your explanations, That it is apparently acceptable for the post office to take a package out in the parking lot in the pouring rain and leave it in a puddle overnight and then deliver it that way with no responsibility on their part. His answer, I swear, was yes and that is why you buy insurance.

4. Don't get me started on marker or pen cancellations.

Thanks for listening to me blow off steam

Jack Leiby


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25 May 2016
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"3. Several years ago, I received a cardboard envelope of souvenir sheets in my mailbox that was so badly soaked that everything was ruined and I could wring water out of it. I took it to the post office and got all the way up to the postmaster. At each level, I was told that because it was not insured, there was nothing they could do about it. When I talked to Postmaster, I said tat based on your explanations, That it is apparently acceptable for the post office to take a package out in the parking lot in the pouring rain and leave it in a puddle overnight and then deliver it that way with no responsibility on their part. His answer, I swear, was yes and that is why you buy insurance.
"



and at that point they'd either want to pay you face value for them, or tell you that they were still valid for postage and to glue them on envelopes!

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