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.
That is a totally different situation. The labels that are being discussed upthread are the ones bought, paid for, and printed at home on PayPal or USPS.com.
The postage metered labels that are printed AT THE COUNTER in the PO must be mailed that day. I'm not sure of the reasoning but it's always been that way.
Interestingly, the labels bought at the kiosk in the lobby of a PO aren't checked the same way. When my printer suddenly died one evening, I bought labels and didn't send them out until the next day or two after.
For whatever the policy is, it's just those small ones printed by a
postal clerk that MUST ship the same day.