Holy crap, USPS, what's going on??

[ChazHollywood]

So, this evening my wife is FURIOUS. She's yelling at me about postage and my crazy cigar hobby and all that. Now, I'd sent out a couple boxes and put the $9.70 on her USPS.com account, but I just couldn't imagine her getting so worked up over it.

Then she shows me... Turns out she got an email receipt from USPS.com for $970! I'm going to go out on a limb here and say even Jerome doesn't rack up *that* kind of shipping bill.

In the end it looks like they billed my credit card correctly, just slipped a decimal point in the email. Ok, sure, what's an order of magnitude between friends? Now that we have that sorted out comes the next question - "What's up with that heavy box that showed up today?"

Box, you say?

Yeah, from USPS...

So, it also looks like instead of the 10 small flat rate boxes I ordered, they decided to send me some priority mail labels instead.

12 rolls.

1000 labels to a roll.

Anyone need some? I'll trade 'em for small flat rate boxes...

-Charles

 

[GoingPostal]

yeah this seems to be happening more lately. Must be some sort of glitch in the system. all you can do is call the number and hope they get it right the next time

 

[Jfire]

Those Priority mail labels are gold. Use them on the flap and both sides to secure the box before putting on the label w clear packing tape. They also work good to secure your bubble wrap over your cigar baggies. Keep at least several rolls.

 

[ChazHollywood]

Those Priority mail labels are gold. Use them on the flap and both sides to secure the box before putting on the label w clear packing tape. They also work good to secure your bubble wrap over your cigar baggies. Keep at least several rolls.

Now if only I wasn't out of boxes.

I guess I'll place another order and see what shows up.

-Charles

 

[Alwayslit]

$970......getting a few pallets of opus??:grin:

 

[Ratbert]

So, this evening my wife is FURIOUS. She's yelling at me about postage and my crazy cigar hobby and all that. Now, I'd sent out a couple boxes and put the $9.70 on her USPS.com account, but I just couldn't imagine her getting so worked up over it.-Charles

LOL...if my wife received an email that I spent $970.00 shipping cigars, she'd be more than just furious! You'd probably be reading my obituary...I'm afraid she'd whack me over the head with a heavy object before I could explain.

 

[cvm4]

:rofl:

I'd just drop them off at your nearest post office. I doubt they can refuse them.

 

[hdroadglide]

ah yes, they do so well. imagine what a gov't agency can do with health care!!!!!

 

[funkejj]

$970 is postage, I rack up about that in a month but I also do ebay stuff. Wow that is alot.

 

[ciggy]

Sounds like a Government F-up for sure!! Hope you get it taken care of quick!!

 

[itsme_timd]

Next you'll probably get a credit from them, then an email saying you owe them money, then accused of attempting to defraud the US government..... oh man, you're in trouble.

 

[danthebugman]

:rofl: Had a similar incident with my wife when she found a receipt for a box of DPG Firecrackers. Well...really she was handed the receipt by my son who thinks it's really fun to play in daddy's boxes :grin:. Anyway she firmly stated that I was not allowed to make comments about how much she spent on getting her hair done when I spent $100 on a cigar. I was a little confused as I've never spent that much for a single cigar! Well when I finally realized what she meant I explained to her that the $100 was for a box of 25 cigars and not all of them were mine, I had done a box split. Then I had to walk her through how a box split works and explain to her I'd only spent about $25. Then I had to explain that these were cigars I could not get at the local store as they're made only for the place I ordered them from. Then I had to "try" to explain why these were different than the other "rolls of tobacco" I had in my humidor...:grin:. Glad you survived your confrontation unscathed!

Dan