Hello! I just wanted to remind many of you who physically get your postage from the USPS offices or APC machines that their scales ** CAN ** be off by an ounce or two... I work for a scale company and run a side-business of my own; lately I've noticed that many of my 12-ounce packages -- which weighed 12 ounces at home -- somehow weighed 13.5 ounces on all the scales at my USPS office. I'm like, "What the heck?!" I had to pay for Priority instead of First-Class with many packages! (That's $2-4 MORE for some packages!) Just think how many people spent an extra $3-5 for that over-the-pound price with their Priority packages... the USPS could make a quick and tidy profit with [honest?] errors like this. Today I took my home-based scale and brought it to work to have it professionally calibrated. Of course, it was spot-on already and not even off by .01 ounces. This afternoon, I'm taking 1-lb. test weights to that same USPS office to check for myself what's going on. So beware... if your personal scale says one thing and theirs says another, you could be losing money and lots of it. NOTE: Illinois doesn't even regulate this stuff (like they would a deli, gas station or similar place that charges you by quantity/weight). The USPS is -- get this -- "self regulated" when it comes to charging you based on weight! Yeah, it's kind of awful and you have to turn to them for complaints about their own system. Best of luck with your businesses, everyone!
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