since moving here I haven't done hardly any trading...maybe mailed out 6 000 and always been charged as a parcel. The other day at the PO I went to mail a 000 with 1 chip inside, I have my 3 bucks in hand. She takes the 000 and bends it and charges me .94. I asked her why did you bend it? and her reply was "if it bends its not a parcel and I've just learned I've been over-charging people" I thought ok, cool

so yesterday I go to mail 2 000, 1 with 1 chip inside another with 4 chips, of course the 1 with 4 was still uniform, had them in the plastic square from cutout 30 pagers....different person of course, as I hand them to him, I say these pass the bend test...he takes the 000 with the 1 chip and says something hard in there, its a parcel...he we go again...he also pulls out the little template, you know the 1 that's 1/4 thick..I tell him that's not the right 1, you have another that's 1/4 to 3/4 opening....he just says parcel because theres something hard in it.....of course I say it passes the bend test and its under 3/4 thick to no avail

so my question is....is a flat (not a parcel) consider non machine-able? or does the non-machineable part just applies to reg or business size envelopes?

oh, cant do labels myself, don't have my printer hooked up, nor a scale, etc

I looked at USPS web site but cant make heads or tails of it