Oh My goodness...She is so clueless and doesn't know how to do her job and (imho) should be fired! If you mail a Bubble Envelope, regardless of the size or the thickness, it will be charged at the Parcel Rate of $1.22 and up. She said they don't use the device at the counter for measuring a Bubble envelope for thickness, it automatically gets charged the parcel rate. If the Bubble envelope of any size, even empty goes through their machines, it comes out ruined, so they have to put all the bubble envelopes through a different system. She is so wrong! She has been wrong ever since Shape Based pricing went into effect in May 2007...so those employees have ALL been OVERCHARGING now for going on to 4 YEARS! When will this madness end? In order to attempt to get her properly trained (isn't it sad the customers are trying to train USPS supervisors?) I suggest you print out this bulletin...First-Class Mail Fact Sheet At the bottom of it under First-Class Mail Quick Tips, it says"For padded bags (e.g., ReadyPost "cushion mailer"), when the thickness is 3/4" or less and the item is flat-size and somewhat flexible, the item should be classified and priced as a large envelope." Why is that so hard for postal employees to understand? I think even a caveman could understand that! She said that if you put the seeds in a long white envelope, with a small amount of padding in it, and if it is under an ounce, you can put a $.44 cent stamp on it and ask for the 'non machinable' rate. They would charge you another $.20 for that and so the total cost of your envelope would be $.64. hmmm...and we ALL know how well seeds do in regular envelopes with bubble wrap in them. The envelopes end up torn up and the seeds destroyed, if the envelope and seeds even make it to their destination and aren't totally destroyed. What about those who live in the rural and don't have the convenience of getting into the PO very often? What about those that get dropped into the blue mailboxes? Does she think that every envelope is read and sorted by hand so marking something Hand Stamp will be seen? Give me a break. I asked about the little gadget to measure the thickness of the envelope and she said they don't give them out, but they keep one at the counter, but they don't use it to measure bubble envelopes. It seems strange that some of were able to get them from our post offices without any problems. Would you mind posting her name and telephone number here along with her address? I will personally contact her superior from the list at the link below that lists all Vice Presidents and District Managers. It shows the zip code areas that are covered by each one. Imho, she needs to be reported littleonefb, Fran I really don't think anyone associated with the PO is reading this or is attempting to get anything done. I sure wish I could get NBC, CBS, or one of the major networks to pick up on this stealing that has been going on for almost 4 years. A lot of folks should be fired for not knowing how to do their job correctly. In the private sector, a lot of these employees would have been fired long ago. Here is a link that might be useful: USPS Management-it is an 11 page pdf file that will need to load

Donnaz5, trospero is a hybridizer... Greenhaven, you search the patent database. The easiest way to do that is: 1. Go to Helpmefind.com and look up the rose. Find the registered name for the rose, usually in the form of 2 - 4 upper case letters then some lower case letters. For example, the registered name of Knock Out is RADrazz ("RAD" for the hybridizer, Bill Radler). Helpmefind.com will often have the patent information. 2. Go to google.com/patents. Enter the registered name into the search box. If the patent is still in effect, a summary of the information will be displayed, along with a link to the patent at the USPTO (US Patent and Trademark Office) web site.

Linked below is the US Post Office's postage calculator. Just put Canada in from the drop-down menu at the top. Here is a link that might be useful: USPS postage calculator

I'm not a fan music either. I tend to turn my volume down whenever something like this has music. That could just be my personal preference. I don't even use speakers or a head set. I like my computer time to be quiet time; especially after a long summer of having my daughter home lol Basically, what I did was use some pictures from webpages (not actual high quality pictures I took myself of an actual house). I hope you didn't use pictures from someone you don't know. When I saw that you'd used sparksals photos off of her agents site my 1st thoughts were that I wondered if you worried about possible copyright issues? While the photos are online, how would her agent feel about you grabbing them without asking? Again, this was done in about 30 minutes tops. And just to show how fast and easy one can do it. Nothing more. When I did it for my girlfriend it came out much nicer of course because we spent a lot of time on it getting it JUST RIGHT . . . we also used better quality shots. I've seen you mention the one you did for her, and if it's so much better then what you've posted, why haven't you posted it? That's the one I want to see. Wow, I'm sorry that my pointing out something that can help people makes me immediately a villain in your eyes. I didn't realize that my having a blog makes me suspect to the general public when trying to share helpful tips here. I've wondered if you were making money or were in some way associated with the site you mention. I really haven't seen you post anything but almost the same comment, which it looks like you've copied and pasted then threw in a few words. I just searched, out of all of the posts you've made here, 2 did not contain a link to the video program or your money making blog. You've been a member of GW since 2003 but from what I see you've only just started posting (doing a search of all of GW for your name) and it was to post about the program. So yeah, it kind of looks like you do. This forum has had a lot of spam lately and posters are getting creative in how they are mentioning it so that it doesn't look like spam.