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Originally Posted by Rrrlyons
Not to defend the post office but if you package cards in something that is thin enough to get sorted it goes thru the sorting machine. History has shown you don't what to risk it. Simple solution put things in bubble mailers or Boxes with card board around them then they are hand sorted. The price to mail that envelope was probably $1.50, standard price for a puffy is 2.32 I think. People need to quit trying to save 80 cents and take it out of the machines hands. This is the senders fault not the post office. Still not a usps fan but we do have to take responsibility for our own actions once in awhile. Rick
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The packages go through machines too.
Tracking isn't supposed to be available on anything that's under 3/4 of an inch thick, unless it's priority. Even stuff ridgid enough to be classed as a package can't have tracking under 3/4 inch.
There's the letter sorter, flats sorter, package sorter.......Not much human work aside from loading the machines.
I'm not sure about the flats and package machines, but the machines that do letters handle as many as 30,000/ hour.
Private carriers aren't really any better.
Steve B