USPS Package Destruction!!

So I get this package today of a block of stamps, and the sender used a heavy card for a stiffener, or this envelope would have been shredded.



I think they used this to clear a jam.



You can see this tear is clean through. It extends about an inch or so up the package..



As you can see here the stamps only suffered a crease. the tear did go through the glassine envelope, but missed the block. And the USPS wonders why people dont want to send stuff using them. Hopefully I will have my own MPP and can have my stuff included with the metered mail. May still suffer sorting damage, but at least it wont be from the ink sprayer.

Everyone's stamp order nightmare. Stamps look OK at least!


-IBFS

To be fair to the postal system, that envelope's postage rate should have been 66 cents, not 46 cents. The stiffner cards would have required a 20 cent surcharge for the non-machinable fee which would then allowed for a hand postmark and probably not subjected to processing machinery. The cardboard wasn't flexible enough to bend through the rollers. The cardboard is also much smaller then the inside of the envelope which means that the edges of the envelope are more prone to being snagged in the machinery. Sorry to hear about the damage, but again steps could have been taken to prevent it in the first place.

Battlestamps is absolutely correct. I guess the postal worker felt bad and didn't tack on a 20c postage due notice.

I can commiserate with you. I've received mail that more than meets USPS requirements for being machinable, and that had also been ripped open. I assume that it was damaged by the processing machinery. Non-machinable items might also cause following mail to get knocked off the feeder alignment. Of course, it may also have been damaged by -- a postal worker.

I received a package last week. Partial postmarks indicate the stamps were properly affixed when submitted to post office (including 0 value meter). Missing stamps indicate someone carefully removed several of the "special" stamps while in transit. Modern stamps were all left intact. 2nd time this has happened to me.

Also, I recommend that you edit out the address on your envelope.

I edited out the senders address, out of respect for them. My address is publicized and I have no worries about someone having it. There's nothing they can do with it anyway. Except maybe send me some mail with a stamp on it. :)