When I need to ship small packages out, I use a food scale and print labels to be taped on from the USPS website. James On Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 8:40 AM Robert Lauf via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > I don't use this service so I'm unclear as to what middlemen it actually > cuts out. Is the alternative just showing up at the post office with a tub > full of packages and standing there while the clerk weighs each one and > stamps it? With all the work we expect from our SX/BX volunteers, is it > reasonable to expect them to stand in line while all of this manual work is > done? Does stamps.com possibly save one or more trips to the post > office? At current gas prices, that might be considered a useful benefit. > Looking at it another way, maybe it's a scam perpetrated by the USPS to > shift work onto the mailer and away from the postal clerks. Like making > you talk to a robot operator instead of a real person so that you are the > only person spending time on the transaction. > We should ask our volunteers to weigh in on whether or not the thing is a > net savings to them in time, money, or driving. As long as they are > willing to do a thankless job that I'm not willing to do, I would hesitate > to tell them how to do it. > Bob Zone 7 or should I say Zip Code 37830 haha > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum latest: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…