posted on March 6, 2003 05:53:26 PM new
if you do a search on shipping boxes you will see all kinds of these....and people bid on them????? I guess they don't know enough about the internet to search for the post office site???
posted on March 6, 2003 07:37:44 PM new
Everywhere you look there are people trying to sell you:
How to get free money and grants from the goverment.
What's the difference?
posted on March 6, 2003 07:38:38 PM new
By the way, when you go online to USPS and order supplies now, they will tell you they will fill the order and it is "pending". If you have not yet filled out their new legal form, they will then send you a legally binding statement that you (and it will have the names of other hosehold members as well!) will only use the supplies for sending Priority/Express mail and understand it is a violation of Federal law to do otherwise.
They will hold your order for shipping until you return the signed form. Happened to me last week. So far, they have not asked for me to sign a form at the local Post Office when I pick up boxes there.
posted on March 6, 2003 11:27:07 PM new
I agree that the public still doesn't know they can get boxes from the P.O. free.
I was in the line at the post office the other day and a customer was having a real struggle with a crunched-in box she was using for priority shipping; the clerk was warning her that the item she was sending might be damaged along the way.
I remarked to someone next in line that the woman should have used a priority box from the post office, and the person next to me said, "But they're terribly expensive, aren't they?" She was really surprised when I told her she could get them free. (Heck, she could have helped herself to a pile of them right there in the P.O.!!)
posted on March 8, 2003 08:58:10 AM new
I even saw a class listed in the local adult ed course list. I COULDNT BELIEVE IT!!! "How To Buy and Sell on Ebay"" OH GAWD what's next" How to have a garage sale? How to list an ad in the newspaper?
Sniping works up a thirst"