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Forum: Seed TradingReplies: 19, Views: 219
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critterologist
Frederick, MD
(Zone 6b)

July 4, 2007
10:08 AM

Post #3693998

I finally found it -- all the information we need about new postage rates for bubble envelopes and small packages, fully explained and easy to use! It's a different page on the USPS site than the one I'd been using to try to find the information, and I hope it will be useful to others also. Here, they've simplified the presentation and explanation of the different postage rates, and it seems much more clear to me. I did post the info in the other thread on postage, but that thread had become fairly long, and I wanted this information to be easy to find.

Here's the page entitled "A Customer's Guide to Mailing" [HYPERLINK@pe.usps.com]

Descriptions and definitions of "letter," "large envelope," and "package" [HYPERLINK@pe.usps.com]

Postage rates in an easy format [HYPERLINK@pe.usps.com]

Note the 17 cent nonmachinable surcharge on letter rates (applies to bubble envelopes measuring less than 1/4 inch thick).

Bubble envelopes that are not more than 1/4 inch thick will cost 58 cents for the first ounce. An empty bubble envelope measures about 1/4 inch thick, so this rate only applies for a single layer of seed packets where the seeds aren't large.

Fat bubble envelopes (up to 3/4 inches thick) are "large envelopes" and will cost 80 cents for the first ounce and 17 cents more for each additional ounce, up to 13 oz.

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