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ia_dane · ‎12-31-2018

Where is the best place to put the postage label on the above size package so the poat office does not screw it up

drusalina · ‎01-04-2019

@muttlymob wrote:
@drusalina wrote:
I have been shrinking my labels to fit my small boxes for years. If you have a printer that shrinks the label by percentages, you can do a 60% label to fit on a small box. I have Never had a problem with shrinking my labels. The Clerks at the Post Office love them because everything is right there on the top of the box, with no wrapping it around the box, which they don't like. As long as you have a good printer and the bar code is not covered with tape, you shouldn't have a problem.

Unless you are sending everything to PO Boxes, the clerks aren't the ones who matter. Ask the carriers who have to try to read those miniature addresses. This time of year sometimes in the dark. Or sitting in a vehicle halfway in the travel lane at a mailbox on a highway with traffic wizzing by at 60 miles an hour. Maybe in the dark.

If you don't have a 4x6 inch area at least on one side of your package to fit the entire unshrunk label, get a bigger box or put it in an envelope with bigger surface area. Shrinking labels down to tiny dimensions is not as great a solution as you might think.

Believe what you want to believe. I have Never Ever had a problem. And believe me I have encountered persnickety postal clerks. I have had Post Masters PRAISE my efforts. When you have a 4x4x4 box, there is no way to put on a full size label. I have never had a problem.

I had a postal clerk show me a package that was 2x3 with a label. She told me they have to accept it. I guess an unwritten rule.

Change the channel!

muttlymob · ‎01-04-2019

@drusalina wrote:
Believe what you want to believe. I have Never Ever had a problem. And believe me I have encountered persnickety postal clerks. I have had Post Masters PRAISE my efforts. When you have a 4x4x4 box, there is no way to put on a full size label. I have never had a problem.

I had a postal clerk show me a package that was 2x3 with a label. She told me they have to accept it. I guess an unwritten rule.

Just because you have never heard a carrier complain directly to you, does not mean that you have never had a problem. You have no way of knowing if someone outside of your PO had trouble with your labels. Your clerks and postmaster don't have to read those tiny labels they way carriers do.

I believe what I have experienced. I have had problems with those miniaturized labels. Reading them is not easy.

The size standards for addresses and other elements on the label are specified in the Domestic Mail Manual, section 202.

https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/202.htm

If your labels don't meet the font size for these elements, the clerk does not have to and should not accept it. There is no such thing as an unwritten rule in the USPS and if the clerk really did say so, it is an indication that either she did not pay attention during training or that her training was inadequate.

drusalina · ‎01-04-2019

@muttlymob wrote:
@drusalina wrote:
Believe what you want to believe. I have Never Ever had a problem. And believe me I have encountered persnickety postal clerks. I have had Post Masters PRAISE my efforts. When you have a 4x4x4 box, there is no way to put on a full size label. I have never had a problem.

I had a postal clerk show me a package that was 2x3 with a label. She told me they have to accept it. I guess an unwritten rule.
Just because you have never heard a carrier complain directly to you, does not mean that you have never had a problem. You have no way of knowing if someone outside of your PO had trouble with your labels. Your clerks and postmaster don't have to read those tiny labels they way carriers do.

I believe what I have experienced. I have had problems with those miniaturized labels. Reading them is not easy.

The size standards for addresses and other elements on the label are specified in the Domestic Mail Manual, section 202.

https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/202.htm

If your labels don't meet the font size for these elements, the clerk does not have to and should not accept it. There is no such thing as an unwritten rule in the USPS and if the clerk really did say so, it is an indication that either she did not pay attention during training or that her training was inadequate.