Postage Stamps Are Obviously Insecure..

humm matrix I would just as soon have my own ship with giant electromagnetic button to slap when things get gnarly to subdue the machines, Oracle..to much weirdness in the world today, going to ebay to buy some books on stamp collecting to restore some sanity the way the Architect intended it,ha lol.

Larry, does your keyboard have a period?

you see three periods in my last post don't you? is there going to be a grammar test? ha.......what not book masterpiece ready to publish enough fer ya, ha lol.....

these are small snippets of conversation I am not writing a novel to be published at any rate they have editors don't they, when they write a book period period period lol... I could care less about making my posts pristine book ready to publish masterpieces if that is where your going with your question period period period...
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hey I have a caps key too.---->number pad thata way...........>

i could care less if peeps think a kindergartner wrote it or Einstein they should git da drift o wat I m talk n bout dat ok wit u? f you dun lik et dun read et!

Or perhaps consider some of our members not from the US that perhaps English isn't their first language and might be using translation software.

On a somewhat related tangent, if this were not an international package, when one works with anything received through the mail that person gets special "training". This is generally through anything government or subcontracted. One does not even need to work in the mailroom, but we all get training.
It's the "suspicious" packaging training. Odd shaped packages, lots of stamps - though they typically state overfranking, not exact postage, and no return address. Or if a package is wet, or "ticking". I won't even hint at the equipment at mailroom facilities at any number of federal installations which exist.
In general they always talk about too much postage being a red flag, I wonder if that is true.

Well, I went to the post office and mailed the package today. I actually under-franked it by $2.65. Had to fill out a customs form and off it went.

In 2012, I bought a press sheet of Babeball All-Stars and split it with another SCF member. I opened the mailing tube, cut the sheet in half, and sealed half back in the tube. I then went to the post office with the tube and all my extra stamps. They weighed it, gave me the postage rate and I spent about 15 minutes covering the entire tube with postage stamps. The woman at the counter was NOT happy. Every time I go in there and get this woman, I ALWAYS say that I brought my own postage, and shell then prints out the postage on her scale and gets all annoyed with me.

Just happened today with the package to Canada. She threw it on the scale with $11.10 in postage on it. She told it was going to cost $13.75 and immediately printed out postage on her scale for $13.75, as she's staring at a padded envelope covered in postage. Sigh...

$13.75 = 24oz rate to Canada.

Usually what I do is figure out the postage needed before hand. A digital scale and the USPS Price List (page 46 for international) are your best friends. Go to the clerk and ask for that amount in postage. Do not hand over any parcel or envelopes from the clerk until you have stamps in hand and paid for. Then apply postage and hand items for shipment to clerk. They cancel the items and off you go. They might try to measure and weigh items, but after awhile they stop that nonsense once they figure out you know what you are doing. Life is good.