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Re: Shipping options: WAS: (Re: Looking for Troy Cefaratti)
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lugnet.market.theory
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Fri, 22 Sep 2000 13:17:09 GMT
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Yes, it was Certified Mail she was talking about. Just got back from the post office
to pick up a package. The base fee for CM is $1.40, and basically, they just keep a
record at the post office of when and to whom it was delivered.
"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
news:G1AE2A.I7p@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.market.theory, Bianca Nebab writes:
> > In fact, you can get insurance and some kind of
> > delivery confirmation for 1st class packages, too!
> > I wasn't aware of this until my very helpful postal
> > employee pointed it out to me. However, I try not to hold up
> > lines so I'm not sure if this was the standard 35 cent dc or
> > some other kind of service, so she may have been talking about
> > the Certified Mail charge, which is much more expensive.
>
> There is a delivery conf available on certain other kinds of non prio mail
> that uses the same fluoro green barcoded form. It costs more than the 35 cents
> add on. (85 cents?? I forget) However it's not available for all other kinds
> of mail. OK, found it: it is NOT AVAILABLE for first class. Quoting:
> "Parcel Post, Bound Printed Matter, Special Standard Mail, and Library Mail -
> $0.60 "
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> The confirmation of delivery she was referring to was probably certified mail
> with a return receipt. This adds 1.20 + 1.45 for the receipt to the cost. IMHO
> this is a bad deal compared to prio w/delivery conf. USPS is pushing prio and
> delivery conf because dc is barcoded, vastly reducing the labor required to
> process it.
>
> For more details, go here: http://pe.usps.gov/ and click on the "domestic
> ratefold" which will launch a pdf (you'll need acrobat installed to read it)
> with all the rates in it. Or click on the left menu for household simplified
> rates.
>
> ++
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