Originally Posted by raedar63
My post office wont ship if the label says a diffrent date. I found this out the hard wat last time I sold things on the board. I took things down to get prices and he printed labels and put them on. When I went to walk out he aske me where I was going with all the packages.(small town one trafic light ,three parking places at the post office etc) I told him I would bring them bach when I recieved the money. He said it had to go out that day. Must be a pretty strict rulle cause my Postmaster is a happy go lucky guy that wouldn't do that if he didn't have to.
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It all goes back to 9/11. If it weighs over a certain amount and meets other criteria, it is considered a possible hazard and stickered. It has been a couple of years since I left the Post Office, but there were specific instructions on how to handle such packages. I once found a parcel in our outside box that had a postage tape on it, from another Post Office locally. There was no reason for it to be in our outside box -- it was handled as a possible hazardous parcel.
You would be surprised what people will try to get by with, someone tried to use the cover from a book of stamps as postage.
I was frequently surprised at how some mail ever reached its destination. It became apparent a lot of individuals have no idea how to address an envelope. I could understand the very old customers who probably never finished school. But High Schoolers, had no clue where the address should be. Plus, all those cute little stickers people put on the outside of envelopes can screw up the machines putting barcodes on envelopes and they can wind up thousands of miles from there destination.