Single Postcard Sales

[collectiblecuriosities]

Does anyone besides me think it wrong to have to add a 1.05 to a single postcard sale just so ebay can have their precious tracking number.I would call this screwing the customer or aren,t we susposed to give a hoot about that.On a sale that is usually below 5.00 and sent per regular mail,I don't get it.I think that they should have a dollar value that below no tracking is necessary,besides I think this stuff is a qc type environment where they should be attacking real inequalities and problems not creating them.I know office **bleep** get there kicks and bonuses through this **bleep** but please come to a commonsense sense world and leave the insanity to politics.

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@partial*eclipsewrote:

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@mcdougle4248wrote:

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 ... USPS First Class Letter up to 2 ounces, more than a 1/4 inch thick, but less than 3/4 inch thick  is $1.21...

That's a flat (AKA Large envelope), not a letter.  And if the piece is rigid then it can't be mailed as a flat and has to go as a package.

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However, if you stay under 1/4" a first class letter can be rigid, but it costs a non-machinable surcharge of 21 cents AND letters go up to 3.5 ounces. I pay $1.10 for 2.0-2.9 ounces and $1.31 for 3.0-3.5 ounces, as I pay for non-machinable.

Unfortunately, despite the fact that I put non-machinable stickers and pay the surcharge, the post office still occasionally puts them through the machine, which means they will sometimes arrive broken.