NEVER send CASH

Motopsycho said
should have put a tracking # on it
with prof delivery
u mailed $65.00 dollars with a .35 cent stamp

The famed tracking system. Just wondering what are you going to do if something with a tracking number comes up missing somewhere? Call the last known spot? Keep in mind that MOST first class letters that have tracking on them are NOT scanned everywhere they go. Only number you can get it is the 1800 number. They will read off the preprinted card asking about insurance etc. The tracking systems real purpose is to monitor the employees, not the mail. That is why the carrier routes have various scan points along the way, at least they did in Phoenix. Anything beyond delivery confirmation is just a waste of $$ in my opinion.

I wish I had a dollar for everyone of those green cards that the machine I was running ripped off over the years. You know, the ones that you use for a signature on the receiving end. I would have enough $$ to build an all aluminum big cube HEMI.

gunbunny said
from a retired letter carrier: If you do send cash, send it registered mail. Not certified, registered!
Registered letters are accountable at every step. Any one who touches one has to sign for it. Inkjunkie can verify, but I don't think "Reds" even get machined.
I it gets lost, the post office will know who lost it.

"Reds" are the safest way to ship anything, also the slowest. You mail will get tossed in it's own sack with a lock. Every person that touches it has to sign for it. It stays in the sack until it is delivered.

Folks can do as you please, but sending cash is just not a smart thing to do. My wife's first day on the job she observed some one stealing money off of the culling belt. Several years later they finally had enough on Steve to fire him. They provided 25 or so taped incidents of him stealing money. Wonder how many times they did not observe him? As I said earlier taping the flaps goes along ways towards security. The problem is someone very well may have dropped a letter in the mail with a set of car keys in it. If they did and you letter is behind it going into the shingulaor/singulator there is a very good chance it will get torn open, even if it is taped shut. Now you are not only hoping that whoever handles your letter from there on is honest but are also battling gravity. If the ripped part of the letter is on the bottom the contents will probably fall out. And if there is a dozen letters torn to shreds how will anyone know where the money came from? I used to laugh my *** off when someone would stuff 20 pictures in a first class envelope. That envelope would hit the shingulator/singulator area (the first pinch point) and get torn open. Next thing you would see would be pictures coming into the feeder area of the machine, all bent and crumpled. Better yet was when a piece of the envelope would get lodged in the mail path and the pictures all would be flying thru the air. Keep in mind that the machine operators have to deal with this all day long. Most of us would just chuckle, call the person mailing them a dumba** and leave them laying wherever they landed. Depending on the pictures they would often get taped up in the repair area, or when it was around the 030 (manual letters) section for everyone to laugh at.