Can bulbs be mailed in bubble mailers?

Frank Cooper gentian21@volo.net
Tue, 12 Nov 2019 22:57:39 PST
The quarter inch differtiates a manually sorted letter from a  small parcel that is sorted on a totally different type of machine.  Think horizontal, less efficient conveyer, instead between two vertical pressure sensitive belts that process lower costing letters.

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On Nov 12, 2019, 10:13 PM, at 10:13 PM, Joe G <joseph.andrew.gorman@gmail.com> wrote:
>For the seeds I've mailed out this year, multiple local post offices
>have
>given me a confusing set of rules - envelopes under 1/4" thick send
>with a ~
>$1.00 nonmachineable stamp, but any envelopes over 1/4" thick are
>charged
>package rates. I use two or three layers of the thin foam packaging
>that
>comes on flat-pack furniture and such. I haven't gotten any complaints
>about crushed seeds (mostly milkweeds); hopefully I don't hear any bad
>news
>in the spring!
>
>-joe in SW VA where nighttime temps tonight  are forecast to be 35°F
>below
>average and all the pots of seedlings I had considered bringing inside
>are
>frozen to my nursery tables.
>
>On Tue, Nov 12, 2019, 8:27 PM Frank Cooper <> wrote:
>
>> If it is not over 1/4" thick there is little to protect an envelope
>from
>> going into the canceling machine if is letter sized.  Always make
>sure
>> packages that are envelope sized are over 1/4"
>> and preferably evenly  flat.   The trouble with bubble packs is if
>the
>> seal is not flat or if it is stapled.
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>> On Nov 12, 2019, 6:14 PM, at 6:14 PM, Diane <voltaire@islandnet.com>
>> wrote:
>> >Not just bulbs.  I received squashed nerine seeds once.
>> >
>> >Diane Whitehead
>> >Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
>> >
>> >
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