DONINPA: You might try calling 1-800-ask-usps to see if they can assist in the enlightening of your own local usps.
OF COURSE, no letters OR notes OR personal communications can be shipped in a package mailed at bookrate.
If you check out the user agreement at half.com, you'll see that the sellers MUST consent to using Media Mail for the shipment of all books, cds, videos, etc sold over there, and sellers have the OPTION to also offer Priority Mail.
posted on January 27, 2001 08:31:11 AM new
Brenda, you stated:
radh, You strike me as someone alwayswanting to see the good in people andthat is an admirable quality. I'm notso blessed with such a temperament.
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No, it is not an admirable quality, and it is a particular bad attribute, signifying S-T-O-O-P-I-D-I-T-Y upon the Internet where such characteristic proves that one has an enfeebled mind, unable to learn from one's experiences.
However, in 3-D RL, it works fine, as my life is very b-0-r-i-n-g and quaint and certainly NOT peopled with characters who mandate a change in my innate, seemingly indelible orientation.
Had I been in your predicament, I dare say that my defense mechanisms are sooooooooo strong, that I would have written a sweet, chatty, liddle widdle email that was very informative, along the lines of, "I'm certain you do not wish to commit a Federal FELONY in order to save a few cents in postage... so let me explain about Media Mail..........."
In other words, I have a distinct feeling that I would NOT have in any given myself ANY opportunity to find out if the actions were PERPETRATED in full knowledge.
This is NOT *admirable* - its a clinically enriched version of that dreaded syndrome, "pollywollyannism."
It is because of my extreme INABILITY to view the t-r-u-t-h of the matter and the ACTUAL MOTIVATIONS of many people that makes me a chump, a perennial sucker to be hook, line, and sinkered.
AND sooooooooo, on those occasions when I f-i-n-a-l-l-y realize that someone is operating MINUS-ANY-CODE-OF-ETHICS I am seething for a long long long time.
Would I turn this person in for Mail Fraud?
No.
Cuzza they'd already have my friendly chatty liddle email starting off, "When I unwrapped the parcel you so carefully mailed me, I realized that you are unaware of federal postal regulations, and since not following these regulations constitutes a federal FELONY, I'm sure you want to know the following....
