I weigh my boxes on my kitchen scale, aiming for about 1.5 pounds. Yesterday the clerk told me a box was over two pounds, causing me to pay 50 cents over what it usually costs to mail to this location. I didn't challenge her on it mainly because I figured an average customer wouldn't have taken the time to know a package weight down to the ounce.
But later I started thinking...if a post office fudged their scale such that customers paid a little too much each time a package went out that would be a tidy sum. If so, would it benefit the individual clerk or the office itself?
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