The biggest problem is that first class postage is no longer based soley on weight. The USPS went dimensional a few years ago, so now you can have a one ounce letter that requires one of four different rates: (.42/.62/.83/1.17). Five, if you include a first class postcard.
Triple-beam, eh?
Now, where's that grams to ounce conversion table...
I did just that. They are NOT available in a roll of 100 but come in books of 20.
Agreed. I still find it amazing that I can mail something and, in a couple or three days, it'll arrive at the other end of the country for a mere 42-cents.
Depends on where you are sending it. It took almost a month for three letters to get from NJ and IN to the Florida Keys. Two things never arrived and even a priority mail package took 10 days. But that may be more of a indication you are in the Keys than the USPS in general (g) .
Businesses and other volume users tend to use coils. Buying a bag full of booklets are harder to manage. While a business could buy lots of books, they probably wouldn't.
Jim Redelfs wrote in news:jim.redelfs- snipped-for-privacy@news.west.cox.net:
Once again, Google is your friend. Many don't know you can just type any conversion request into the Google search bar and it does it. It does just about anything.
1 oz to grams1 ounce = 28.3495231 grams
I tried: nickel bag to grams but it didn't fly.
If the letters are identical weight, the cheapest way to pay postage is with a permit imprint. Postage meters are handy for flats and packages.
It's all about image. Someone who works out of his home, sending no more than a handful of business letters a day, may use a postage meter to give the impression to his correspondents that he employs a large staff. On the other hand, an impersonal marketing campaign makes the envelopes more personal by using stamps. The additional expense of applying stamps works (not to mention that you've probably paid for postage well in advance of the mailing) because it gets a few more potential customers to open the envelope.
Nothing says "bulk rate" and therefore "junk mail" like a permit imprint.
Permit imprint mailings have another advantage: If you really want to pay for postage at the last minute, you can do it as late as the time you present the mailing. Although permit users often use advance deposit accounts.
Postage meter companies make more money by taking money in advance than in meter rental fees. They also charge customers fees to give them their money in advance! Those postage-by-phone and by-Internet recharges are also profitable.
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They'd need to work in an inflation calculator for that to work. A 1960s nickel weighed a lot more than today's. [and a 1969s Vietnamese 'nickel' weighed nearly an ounce. . . or so I've heard.]
Jim
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