I took packing tape
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Ooops, I misread it as: you took their tape home....Carry on!
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/30/2015 02:23AM by SunnyDays2.
Ooops, I misread it as: you took their tape home....Carry on!
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/30/2015 02:23AM by SunnyDays2.
This would be about the time I got a very important call with my phone on vibrate and excused myself from the line and walked outside to take the call. When I returned, I'd have the box sealed up properly.
It's just rude to hold up any line with an important phone call and stepping out of the shop to take it and returning shortly would be a discrete way to abort the interaction and start it over again when your fully prepared.
It's just rude to hold up any line with an important phone call and stepping out of the shop to take it and returning shortly would be a discrete way to abort the interaction and start it over again when your fully prepared.
Well I did step to the side to seal the box. The clerk took care of another customer during that time. I put everything on the report. It took another 20 minutes after I got home to fix the tape.
I only use boxes for the As. When doing the Bs, I use the envelopes instead.
That way I have it all done up before getting in line and they usually don’t actually see me putting the items in. the envelopes also seal very nicely without having to tape them.
But, that’s just me. I don’t like thinking about the number of boxes I’d waste when they come back to me later, since I can’t use them again. The envelopes also take up less room in my recycling bin.
That way I have it all done up before getting in line and they usually don’t actually see me putting the items in. the envelopes also seal very nicely without having to tape them.
But, that’s just me. I don’t like thinking about the number of boxes I’d waste when they come back to me later, since I can’t use them again. The envelopes also take up less room in my recycling bin.
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A, C and D are supposed to be packaged BEFORE you show up at the Post Office.
If this was a B, you should be fine.
If this was a B, you should be fine.
I guess because I live in a big city they have a room even larger than the main post office lobby which is for mailboxes and it has tables to pack your stuff on away from the eyes of the clerks. I just go in to the lobby, grab my ready post package and then go into the large side room to put my item in and tape it up if needed. This is probably one of the times us big city folks are lucky. Every post office I have gone into has one of these large rooms.
An envelope would not fit baby food. :-) I gotta do some more Save A Lots to get more food for shipping. My daughter gets brownie mix a couple times a month from me.
When I am assigned "B" shops, I always use the envelopes. I just bring 100 sheets of scrap paper from my job and mail those to myself.
@Phoebe70 wrote:
When I am assigned "B" shops, I always use the envelopes. I just bring 100 sheets of scrap paper from my job and mail those to myself.
That will work, as long as you are far enough from home to get to a Zone 1, not Zone 0.
I will send my husband cans of food (wrapped in bubble wrap) and drop them into a XS box ($1.99). I have sent my friends my junk mail if I am shopping really close to home. I sent my son in boarding school (about 30 miles away), lots of books from his room. He would just bring them home as needed.
I think you'll be fine. Twice, I've had the clerks slip my pre-packed box (Scenario A) inside a flat rate box before, and my shops were accepted.
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I thought the point of not using priority tape is that then they do not offer express first because you have already demonstrated you want priority. (As if everyone has a roll of priority tape laying around.) If THEY use the priority tape after you get there I would think it would be a different gist. Either way, a detailed explanation in the narrative is warranted. I hope your shop is accepted. I did a shop where I used the thinner regular tape to seal the envelope, and after we decided it would go priority, the clerk used priority tape.
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Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
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I agree but the only problem with the envelope is it can be hard to make the weight. One time my weight was EXACT. Not one ounce more.
Got a 10. Report was well written and I gave a detailed explination of my experience at the end.
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