@Youllneverknow wrote:

I live in Youngstown and ship a canned good and a box of Macaroni to the Mountaineer Food Bank in West Virginia. At Aldi the food will run about 1.00 and a box is .46 at Walmart. If you need to do a HazMat shop address it to a food bank in Fargo ND.

@sandyf wrote:

In my experience the regular post offices used to take the hazmat boxes but nowadays they usually do not so they seem to have learned from our reports. Since they started asking us to accept ground shipment if it is offered to us I have had one package shipped although I do not do as many as I used to of the hazmat;'s now that there is a chance they will send it ground.
Good news though...I sent a package to zone 8 yesterday and is now reimbursed fully going to zone 8,

@expert setter wrote:

@Dandydew
If they offer retail shipping you must accept.


This is a little off topic, but I am hesitant to try a hazmat job at the post office. Has anyone had a bad experience doing one? I keep imagining the clerk wanting to open the package. How do you back out of mailing it retail ground?

@2stepps wrote:

I have done my first Hazmat the other day and after I was told the laptop battery couldn't be shipped I asked for the stamps and right as I paid for them the clerk said that I could ship the battery ground. It would take a longer time than UPS or Fed Ex but would be cheaper. I had already paid for my stamps.
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I hit quote/reply only because there is no unlike button...I did not want to like what you said but my unlike is not for you but for your situation...sorry that happened. I have heard some people sell stamps online at a small discount. You can try that if you now have too many or if you know someone who still sends cards by snail mail that pack of stamps might be a nice gift for them.

@Shops-A-Lot wrote:

These aren't monthly shops, they are quarterly. So by the 3rd month of the quarter, I've noticed there aren't many left.