Self-Self Machine Lied to me?
I usually always weigh my envelopes at the self-serve kiosk at the USPS.
My envelope size was 4 1/8 X 9 1/2...so I wanted to be sure I had enough stamps on it.
The machine said the envelope needed $3.40 on the envelope from USA to Australia.
I didn't have that many extra stamps to put on the envelope so I was going to mail it on Monday.
But there was no line so decided to use my credit card with the clerk for extra postage.
Anyway, she stated I had enough of postage on it...$1.70.
So she printed a 0.00 postage label and put it on envelope for it to go through and took it for mailing.
As I was walking away she wanted to know if I wanted a receipt?...I didn't know I could get one without buying anything...LOL
So I took it. The clerk was new. Did she make a mistake? I don't know if she did or if the kiosk machine was lying to me.
Just a nice touch with the clerk I have to say. I guess some clerks go above and beyond at the post office.
itsjustasprain
·1 year agoThe kiosk scale may have been slightly out of whack. I doubt anyone checks it very often - especially when it sits in the outer lobby and all the clerks are behind the front counter. I once encountered a kiosk scale in Chicago that was over-weighing by almost half a pound. Just ridiculous.
The clerk did not make a mistake by weighing the envelope on her scale and verifying the postage by adding a $0.00 label to what was already stuck on. You are entitled to a receipt for ANY front desk transaction regardless of whether money changed hands (such as for an Acceptance scan of a prepaid label).
buyselljack2016
·1 year agoYup, the clerk doing the $0.00 label accounts as "time and action recorded" for the employee for the work done to check that letter. Did what she should.
Had she just said "all set, you're good" that time would not have been accounted for.
buyselljack2016
·1 year agoself-service scale, or counter scale could have been out of calibration.
the 1 ounce shown on the receipt allowed little room for error
short_circuit.lineman61
·1 year agoUSPS and ebay are similar in the fact that any time they make a mistake they never take responsibility and whatever the results are its your fault and you are responsible for the costs
simply-the-best-for-you
·1 year agoIDK if she made a mistake, I'm not up on international postage, but I can tell you that PO's 'interpret' the rules differently. I had a package with one of those cardboard mailers on the outside. I took it to my PO to see what the cost would be. I knew I had stamps at home & was going to use stamps. They quoted me the price that included 'rigid' handling & something else, I can't remember. Fair, I thought the item was rigid.
I decided not to use the stamps & took that pkg to a totally different PO & the price was like $3 cheaper. She was like rigid? This isn't rigid & started flexing it. She couldn't believe my PO charged the higher rate for it.
So they do have some flexibility to interpret the rules. Now what happens if that item gets flagged? IDK. But I got the very distinct impression that that PO routinely handled it differently than my PO.
12345jamesstamps
OP1 year agoHaving the clerk cancel the stamps herself which they do sometimes would have to make it go through I would think...plus the added postage paid sticker on it of 0.00.
I had my usual thin cardboard in it and she didn't even bend the envelope like the 'old timers' at the post office.
You can guess who has become my new clerk friend at the post office.