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Now to the less important stuff: I'm convinced that someone at the USPS is spinning a roulette wheel, and where ever it stops, that's how much postage they'll charge.
Archie in particular helped me out by sending me different envelopes with some chips in them that appear to be roughly the same weight (for two of them, anyway). It's a win/win for me, because it gives me some ammo to use with the USPS, plus I got some of his personal and business chips in the process, heh.
Here's the results from his three packages:
-One chip in a small standard envelope (~6"x4"), encased in corrugated cardboard: .41¢ in stamps
-Two chips in the larger white business envelope, in corrugated cardboard: also .41¢ in stamps
-One chip in a #000 bubble mailer: .80¢ in stamps
Just for ease of understanding, none of the envelopes I received today had postage due. However, here's the rest of the story, from the other 6 packages that shipped to me here in Michigan:
-9 chips in #000 bubble mailer from Arizona: $1.64 postage, metered
-2 chips in #000 bubble mailer from Pennsylvania: $1.30 postage, metered
-4 chips in #000 bubble mailer from Nevada: .58¢ postage, metered (and marked "FCM letter")
-1 chip in #000 bubble mailer from Mississippi: .58¢ in stamps
-1 chip in #000 bubble mailer from Massachusetts: $1.13 postage, metered
-1 Player's Card in small standard envelope: .43¢ in stamps
That last one made me laugh. I don't know why he was made to put .43¢ in stamps on that envelope; after all, the card was just put into the envelope and mailed without anything around it. Maybe it's because the USPS sees an unprotected card is "bumpy". I swear I can hear that roulette wheel spinning, though.
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