USPS USERS - Anyone here absentmindedly send something in the last week using a 37 cent stamp?

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I stupidly sent a couple of semi-important letters this week using 37 cent stamps, and I'm wondering if they'll be coming back (haven't yet). In my defence, I was out of the country for the past two weeks and didn't realize the new rate went into effect.

Anyone else make the same mistake and have your letters come back?

― Super Cub (Debito), Monday, 16 January 2006 15:35 (twenty years ago)

And feel free to comment on the rate change or any other aspect of the USPS, because this has got to be the most boring thread ever.

― Super Cub (Debito), Monday, 16 January 2006 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh and I went into the post office to buy 2 cent stamps, and they didn't have any in the stamp machines! The line had 30 people.

― Super Cub (Debito), Monday, 16 January 2006 15:40 (twenty years ago)

In an effort to make this thread more interesting, please post pictures of mail delivery vehicles from around the world.

Japan:
http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/img/user/98/04/939804/162.jpg

― Super Cub (Debito), Monday, 16 January 2006 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes they will return the letters to you, sometimes they will go ahead and send them--it basically depends on how bitchy the postal worker who has gotten your particular letter feels that day.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Monday, 16 January 2006 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, the USPS website says that letters with incorrect postage "might" go through. Hmmm...

― Super Cub (Debito), Monday, 16 January 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Oops, I sent in a speeding ticket last week without thinking. I hope it goes through, I don't want to deal with getting a warrant released and all that crap.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Monday, 16 January 2006 15:55 (twenty years ago)

I sent some letters out with postcard stamps. They made it through.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 16 January 2006 15:56 (twenty years ago)

mail delivery vehicles from around the world

UK:

http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/figures/10001.3-2-8.1.gif

http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/~s_mhasch/flintstone_car.jpg

http://www.wyg-roada.freeserve.co.uk/images/nowh.jpg

etc

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 16 January 2006 15:59 (twenty years ago)

first i'd heard of it. i was all fuck a usps until i saw the squash blossom necklace 2c stamp

stupid question: if you have "first class" stamps (i.e. no rate on their face), are they somehow immune to rate changes?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 16 January 2006 16:01 (twenty years ago)

My wife and I are on the mailing list for the US Humane Society, and we received a mass-mail solicitation from them this Friday, complete with a return envelope posted with a 37-cent stamp. Which leads me to believe they may have sent out thousands of such solicitations, all with insufficient return postage. Oops.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:36 (twenty years ago)

i haven't messed anything up yet, but i had to overnight something last week using the new rates. ouch.

― danielle the animal steel (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:43 (twenty years ago)

Australia, where magpies terrorise posties:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/scribblygum/July2002/img/f_postie.jpg

― Mike W (caek), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

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