Originally Posted by DebsShelties
Is it possible that the postal service is trying to say, hey the flat rate envelopes are NOT made for things other than paper? Common sense, do you want your parcel to arrive safely in one piece or have the package torn where things have vanished?
The postal service is protecting themselves here by trying to make it safer for the customer to mail things. Accidents do happen! I had ordered some items from a store on the west coast, it arrived torn - was a bubble envelope, should have been a flat rate box! It was overstuffed, no wonder it tore. Everything was there, but still.
I think perhaps that is what the postal service is trying to prevent so that mail gets delivered properly.
I think the real problem is the pricing: the box that fits about the size of the flat envelope is more than twice the price of the flat envelope. That's big money if you send a lot of packages, and really leads a lot of customers to seek the cheapest route possible.