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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 25985076, member: 10461"]Hmm. <i>Ten</i> ounces, huh. I thought it was thirteen. And I thought the max thickness was 1/4", not 1/2".</p><p><br /></p><p>This means that you must hand any package over that weight limit across the counter at a post office, rather than mailing it from a mailbox with stamps. It can still have stamps on it for postage, but you've got to mail it from the PO.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess it's harder to make a bomb that's lighter than thirteen- now <i>ten</i>- ounces? And how that makes anyone safer if you hand it over the counter to a USPS clerk instead of dropping it in a mailbox, I don't know. Is the clerk going to somehow know you've put a bomb in there? I don't think so! At best, they'll have you on video, I suppose.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do most of my mailing with stamps because I live way out in the country and the post office is 25 miles from my home. But anything thicker than 1/4" or heavier than 10 ounces, I have to make that 50-mile round trip to mail.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 25985076, member: 10461"]Hmm. [I]Ten[/I] ounces, huh. I thought it was thirteen. And I thought the max thickness was 1/4", not 1/2". This means that you must hand any package over that weight limit across the counter at a post office, rather than mailing it from a mailbox with stamps. It can still have stamps on it for postage, but you've got to mail it from the PO. I guess it's harder to make a bomb that's lighter than thirteen- now [I]ten[/I]- ounces? And how that makes anyone safer if you hand it over the counter to a USPS clerk instead of dropping it in a mailbox, I don't know. Is the clerk going to somehow know you've put a bomb in there? I don't think so! At best, they'll have you on video, I suppose. I do most of my mailing with stamps because I live way out in the country and the post office is 25 miles from my home. But anything thicker than 1/4" or heavier than 10 ounces, I have to make that 50-mile round trip to mail.[/QUOTE]
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