@a_c_green wrote:
@robbie31415 wrote:
Why would I have to prove my claim?
Well, because you made it, right?
That wasn't the original claim. People shouldn't make a claim, and I counter it asking for evidence, then ask me for evidence because I'm questioning the original claim.
@robbie31415 wrote:
You didn't seem to provide any actual evidence.
Of course I did, both quotes and source.
You didn't provide anything from the USPS. Just because a blogger reported something isn't evidence that it's actual written policy. However, this was corrected by wastingtime by providing Pub 399.
@robbie31415 wrote:
4. Do I need PS Form 5630 if I have only one package that I want scanned at acceptance?
Yes.
https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2006/html/pb22192/pb6ktxt.html
2006, but at least it's from the USPS, and would indicate if you do not have the SCAN form then you aren't entitled to scan.
It does say that, yes, but eighteen years ago is not today. They long ago realized the ridiculousness of requiring a SCAN form to be printed for a single package that's sitting right there in front of everyone with its own barcode already present on the label.
Now you are complaining about the date of the source? While the only thing you produced was just as old. 😂
It's also noteworthy that if you use their own Click-N-Ship service to buy and print your shipping label, there's no requirement to also print a SCAN form. No other shipping providers require a SCAN to be printed either. If it was mandatory, they would certainly make a fuss about doing so.
No one is ever required to use a SCAN form. That doesn't mean you are going to get an acceptance at pickup. However, everyone who does use a SCAN form have a much higher likelihood of not running into the issue the OP described.
Nowadays it is difficult to not get a package scanned at Acceptance. The carrier's handheld scanner can do it. The Point of Sale terminal at the post office front desk can do it. The 24-hour Self-Serve Kiosk in the post office lobby can do it.
'it is difficult to not get a package scanned at acceptance" < Do you have evidence of this. This isn't about what the carrier is capable of doing. This is what the carrier is actually doing. I know for a fact that my mail carrier does NOT scan individual packages. Complaints have been made, the PO doesn't care.
In fact, it's to the local PO's benefit to make sure the scan is done, because otherwise there is no record of their work in doing so. The package will go off, untracked, from there to the origin sort facility, where a tracking record will eventually be created as soon as the package passes under an automated scanner (it will begin with phrasing such as "Accepted at Origin Sort" and give the City Name indicated by the ZIP Code shown in the Ship From entry), but they will not know exactly from which PO it actually originated.
Isn't using a scan form to the mail carriers benefit? Less work? More efficient? Faster? Doesn't mean they do it. Not all PO's accept SCAN forms, and not all mail carriers accept SCAN forms.
Can you find a USPS document where a carrier should refuse a SCAN form?
This point connects with the whole what the USPS is required to do thing... Are they really required? Strong unions, short handed excuses, rural excuses, how do you know they haven't been given the green light not to scan individual packages?
