Do These Warnings Sound Familiar

[JamesD]

Along with our mail today we received a nice oversized post card from the USPS listing some guidelines to help us in dealing with "suspicious" mail. I thought some of these warnings sounded very familiar!

What should make me suspect a piece of mail?

• It's handwritten and has no returm address or bears one that you can't confirm is legitimate.
• It's lopsided or lumpy in appearance.
• It's sealed with excessive amounts of tape.
• It has excessive postage.

I don't know about everyone else, but I get packages like this all the time! I'm sure glad one of the warnings wasn't "Beware of LBEs"!
I know in these dangerous times, these type of warnings are meant to be taken very seriously, but some of these just struck me as funny!

 

[Eeyore's Pal]

Thank you for bringing up this topic!

I go to the post office, at least once a week, sometimes twice, my little shopping bag full of envelopes that sound like your description below -- except for my perfectly legible shipping label, complete with my Eeyore's Pal logo!

When I go to the post office near my home, the one at which I'm well known, it doesn't seem like a problem. But, this week, I ended up stopping into a post office I rarely go into, just because it was convenient, directly in the path of an errand. I felt like every postal worker and every customer was scrutinizing me and my load of LBEs. I guess it wasn't my imagination, after all.

 

[Swamp_Fox]

I know all too well how scary this could be. I work in a mail room at a large university in NYC so every time I sort mail I pray that this piece of mail isn't "the one". If you are going to send pins out please make sure the outgoing address and especially the retutrn address is clear (that cuts down on delays) pieces of questionable mail are often set aside to be inspected, and could be delayed and possibly opened until it gets a green light to proceed, this is what I hear from our local usps letter carrier. Another good tip is not to tape it up too much that will also raise red flags at the post office.

Larry

 

[~Kathie]

Oh Boy!! I'm the TAPE QUEEN.

 

[TinkerKat]

I too was amused upon reading the initial post...

I do believe that we all use return addresses. NY post
offices ask for a driver's lisc. to verify the return address matches.
If you left you wallet at home... tough! Can't mail it out today.

That makes me feel a little better! Small inconv. to a BIG problem.

Stay Safe all! Especially you Larry!

Kathy

 

[Swamp_Fox]

Thanks for the good wishes

Larry

 

[Parkhopper]

Kathie, if you are the Tape Queen.............then I must be the Tape KING at least on boxes which I have carefully packaged and prepared to survive any peril that it may run into.

 

[~Kathie]

Vince...........you have that title!!! You must be torture with Christmas presents.