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oscodapete · ‎09-22-2017

If it was to be made available, how much would you be willing to pay the post office for a roll of Priority Mail tape?

a_c_green · ‎09-22-2017

@partial*eclipse wrote:

Personally I can't stand the Priority Mail tape. It smells funny and is difficult to handle.

Funny you should mention smell. I've got a supply of small Chinese-made cardboard shipping boxes (bought here on eBay) that I could swear smell like gunpowder. I finally decided that maybe they're just made in a factory that makes fireworks as well. Either business (shipping boxes or Roman candles) requires vast quantities of cardboard and glue, so why not. Fortunately, I rather like that smell...

P.S. Yes, I do sometimes wonder what bomb-sniffing dogs might think of my shipments...

baantiques · ‎09-22-2017

@partial*eclipse wrote:
Wow, the PO employees around here will not let customers touch their tape. They'll offer to sell you a little roll of plain tape for $3.

Personally I can't stand the Priority Mail tape. It smells funny and is difficult to handle. I have a box of it that I can't get rid of, that my mom got back when you could order it online.

Back in the late 90s when I started selling on Ebay, they would GIVE you as much of that tape as you wanted. Now you ask for a roll and they look at you as if you just asked them to kill their own children.

buyselljack2016 · ‎09-22-2017

Years ago Post Offices (at least in this area) were directed in writing to stop handing out tape for customers to tape up their boxes. Direction was 1 strip of tape for final sealing. If they needed more than that they were to be directed to the retail tape display to make a purchase. Those with a feeling of entitlement of course were outraged by that. "I'm paying to have this shipped out. You should provide the tape for free."

Even before that the handing out of rolls of Priority mail tape was halted. Too many people were using that to completely tape up all the seams . Light stuff, so it took more than one time around.

sidemouse · ‎09-22-2017

@buyselljack2016 wrote:
Years ago Post Offices (at least in this area) were directed in writing to stop handing out tape for customers to tape up their boxes. Direction was 1 strip of tape for final sealing. If they needed more than that they were to be directed to the retail tape display to make a purchase. Those with a feeling of entitlement of course were outraged by that. "I'm paying to have this shipped out. You should provide the tape for free."

Even before that the handing out of rolls of Priority mail tape was halted. Too many people were using that to completely tape up all the seams . Light stuff, so it took more than one time around.

Yeah we don't know anything about abuse of free mailing supplies today do we?

bubbleman2010 · ‎09-22-2017

I only have a little over 1100 rolls left. A search of ebay for priority tape the top 10 best match items are USPS priority tape some sellers are allowed to sell it some are not. My listings got booted because I had the market cornered..

oaklandmaryland · ‎09-22-2017

I read:
Congress is making them pay Retirement and health care 75 years in advance.
They are paying for employees not even born yet.
This is a ploy by republicans to bankrupt the PO, so they can privatize it.
My response: Verified by my various mailmen and friends in the PO. They brag about how many free benefits they get along with great wages. Sure not like the school teachers here who have to pay 60% of their health benefits and usually earn less but who constantly have to take college courses. No wonder the PO is loaded with ex military.

castlemagicmemories · ‎09-22-2017

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I love the smell of the older PM tape. It smells faintly like bitter chocolate to me.

Well, I never knew that, and I am all in favor of CHOCOLATE! LOL