Post Office Shop errr

August 04, 2013 12:12AM

I have done 5 of these without any issues. Today I actually mailed something that needed to be shipped. I checked the weight at home before going to the PO and I was right at 18 ounces. Tonight I start to put in my data and I look at my receipt and I came up an ounce short at the PO. Do I go forward with the report? Do I just e-mail the scheduler? Everything was fine on the shop. The clerk with through the usual stuff, even without me being at the exact trigger weight of 18 ounces. Bad part is this shop was 30 miles from where I live. I combined it with several more shops I had in that town. I'm totally bummed. Just trying to decide if I even bother entering the report. Thanks for the advice!

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August 04, 2013 12:16AM

Enter it. You should be fine. I've had one that was an ounce short and it was not questioned. I think they absolutely want to be sure it qualifies for Priority Mail.

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August 04, 2013 12:32AM

I've actually had two that came up a few ounces short of the 18 ounces. Both went through fine and I was paid.

August 04, 2013 01:37AM

Thank you for the advice. I am going to enter it in. Right now it looks like that MSC is down for maintenance, so it will have to wait til later. Thanks again!!

August 04, 2013 04:08AM

Well shoot I had one that was short and they would not accept it! It's been awhile though but same MSC.

Liz

August 04, 2013 02:33PM

Editors seem to dictate those shops a lot.

August 04, 2013 05:34PM

I've done that before and the report was accepted just fine. Everyone's scales are different, even different PO's scales are different.

August 05, 2013 12:21AM

I did 2 USPS the same day, 2 different locations...EXACT same product in the EXACT same boxes. one was 15.95 and the other 29.95.
As a MS...these are reimbursed. How many times do consumers get ripped off???

August 05, 2013 01:33AM

I always email the scheduler-- I have boxes I send and resend endlessly and at 9 out of 10 post offices it comes up at 20 ounces and one it comes up at 17. I've done at least a hundred of these so I guess they know I'm reliable.

August 05, 2013 02:05PM

I just had my first one that was short on Friday. I weighed my items at home and they came out to 1 lb. 2.9 oz. After I put them in the ready post envelope, the post office's weight was 1 lb. 1.1 oz. I e-mailed the scheduler and he told me it would be fine. I think they put on an extra 2 ozs., just to make sure your items weigh over a pound.

August 05, 2013 02:35PM

I had one last month that was an ounce under. The editor wrote me a note reminding me in the future to double-check, but it was accepted.

August 05, 2013 04:22PM

You would think in all of this the end results would be the USPS getting the scales accurate. But for those repeating the shops same location same incorrect results why on earth are we doing this if they do not want to fix the scales. Good waste of a lot of money both for us and unsuspecting patrons.

August 05, 2013 04:38PM

I've never had a weight difference of more than an ounce on my USPS shops. I guess the question to ask is, if you encounter this, are you reporting the incorrect weights?

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August 06, 2013 02:01AM

CANADAMOMMY Wrote:
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> You would think in all of this the end results
> would be the USPS getting the scales accurate. But
> for those repeating the shops same location same
> incorrect results why on earth are we doing this
> if they do not want to fix the scales. Good waste
> of a lot of money both for us and unsuspecting
> patrons.

Except the USPS is going to be thinking that we should get *our* scales fixed.
But actually, they won't be thinking anything of it at all, because USPS will probably never know what our packages weighed at home.

August 06, 2013 02:56PM

Good point, who really knows which scale is correct and which is not? My guess would be USPS has their scales calibrated with some regularity unlike scales at home.

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