Adam wrote:
>The postal service uses machinery to handle all mail thinner than 1/4 inch.
You
>must pay an extra 11 cents for mail that is thicker than 1/4 inch.
>
>Flat mail processing involves sending it through a high-speed scanner (the
>squisher) and around multiple bends (the bender & squisher part II) of no less
>than 9" in diameter.
>
>Make sure you package is blatantly over 1/4", whether it's in an envelope or
>box, and it won't be processed this way.  It will be handled by hand
through the
>entire postal system.
.........
>


Most post offices have a slot labelled "non-letters" or "non-flatpacks",
whatever. Since these can be any width, I always assumed if you put
something in there, they were handled by hand rather than machine.

Not even a postal employee would try to force something like that
into the space between 2 rolling pins. Am I wrong? [or do they just
like the sound of bubble pack popping?].

- danM

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