Posted: 8/6/2013 9:39:18 AM EDT
| If you had a small item to mail, would you consider first class mail as safe as priority mail?? |
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First class.
I ship USPS all the time, and I can't remember ever having a package not make it to its desitnation. The bad thing about the post office is the line at the counter, and delivery people who would rather leave a note on the door, the pause long enough for me to make it to the door. |
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First class. I ship USPS all the time, and I can't remember ever having a package not make it to its desitnation. The bad thing about the post office is the line at the counter, and delivery people who would rather leave a note on the door, the pause long enough for me to make it to the door. I wish I could say that! I have had an incoming tracked package disappear en-route...and I have had a Priority Mail envelope disappear that I mailed. The first they could not find any evidence beyond receiving it... and the second they had a sorting photo of the envelope being received passing through sorting to not make it to the next scanner. I have also had an item shipped to me Priority Mail with signature required, show in tracking as delivered but it was not and there was no signed receipt even though tracking indicated signed and delivered. That item was insured so I eventually received a replacement item. I now insure everything I send Priority Mail except the the care packages sent to my BIL in Afghanistan. |
| First class is better if the item is lightweight. Priority is better if the item is heavy and you use their boxes. I buy fishing sinkers from a guy that uses Priority flat rate boxes. 50 pounds of lead for less than $11. He said it would be thee times that if he went any other way. |