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Anyone ever mailed something with these? Have a long item to send and have been poking around on the usps website for awhile with no luck.

This have to be done in person at the post office?

Thank you BF
 
I am interested in people's experience as well, heavy cardboard mailing tubes might be just the thing for some longer knives.
 
madcap_magician said:
I am interested in people's experience as well, heavy cardboard mailing tubes might be just the thing for some longer knives.
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Yep, got a swamp rat rucki I’m going to move along. Was chatting with the guy at the counter who grabbed it for me. One side is priority and the other express...which is great but I can’t find the damn thing in the system to price it or mail with it! :confused:
 
I've never gotten a knife shipped in a mailing tube but I don't see any issue using one. As I recall, the USPS version may need some tape reinforcement to be stronger. The medium is pretty long; maybe the short one (small) would be better but it's still 25 inches long or so.
 
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Was chatting with the guy at the counter who grabbed it for me. One side is priority and the other express...which is great but I can’t find the damn thing in the system to price it or mail with it! :confused:
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Wouldn't that fall under nonstandard packaging (anything other than typical rectangle or square).
I'm guessing you're referring to the long triangle shaped box, rather than an actual tube (which also exists), based on the sides comment
 
If you local USPS station does not carry them, you order them on line. The triangular ones are free. I sometimes get what they call their game box or shoe box for shipping stuff. And yes, it probably means a trip to the post office to mail it unless you use stamps dot com or something like that. I just go to the PO myself.
 
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22-rimfire said:
If you local USPS station does not carry them, you order them on line. The triangular ones are free. I sometimes get what they call their game box or shoe box for shipping stuff. And yes, it probably means a trip to the post office to mail it unless you use stamps dot com or something like that. I just go to the PO myself.
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Thank you. So strange to me that it’s priority but not on the website to access it
 
So I went back to the post office and asked about shipping. Guy working said I had to bring it back for shipping and weighing. I asked about flat rate because the reversible box is priority or express. He said it still needed to be weighed.

I’m figuring when I go back to actually ship it I’ll hear something different. Nice to grab some longer boxes though. Got a few big ‘uns gathering dust I might as well move on.

I’ll report back when I ship
 
Priority does not mean flat rate shipping necessarily. I do use their small boxes quite often that are flat rate.
 
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22-rimfire said:
Priority does not mean flat rate shipping necessarily.
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Correct.
There are priority flat rate, priority, priority regional... not to mention one can also ship priority using one's own packaging. Cost on anything other than flat rate is affected by size, weight, and distance.
 
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The company I work at ordered some thin rigid plastic tubing that could not be bent or crushed during shipment. The tubing came in 6 foot lengths. The manufacturer used a 4" PVC sewer pipe and caps as a shipping container. They used the fiberglass reinforced strapping tape to attach the end caps so they would be removable. I think it was shipped by FedEx of UPS.

Randoms question: is your name rpn in reference to reverse Polish notation that HP calculators use?
 
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