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   From: jclarkeusenet@cox.net   
      
   In article , gossg@gossg.org says...   
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   > "Christopher J. Henrich"  wrote:   
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   > >In article , Greg Goss   
   > > wrote:   
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   > >> Your Name  wrote:   
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   > >> >Just pretend you're a parcel, stick a label on your forehead, and book   
   > >> >yourself on a courier delivery service ... just make sure it's not a   
   > >> >holiday weekend, otherwise you might get left in the van until the next   
   > >> >working day.  ;-)   
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   > >> A recent Daily Dish post featured pictures of kids in mailbags from an   
   > >> era when you COULD stick stamps to the kid's sweater and hand him to   
   > >> the mailman.   
   > >I guess if your kid weighed no more than one ounce (28 grams) a 2-cent   
   > >stamp would have sufficed.   
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   > What's the top weight limit on parcel post?   
      
   75 pounds.  There's also a dimensional limit that I don't recall.   
   Exceed those and the PO goes to "GXG" which is approaching the cost of   
   just buying the thing an airline ticket.   
      
   By the way, in the interest of furthering the pedantry that abounds in   
   this newsgroup, "parcel post" doesn't exist in the US anymore.   
   Technically it's "standard mail" or in some cases "parcel select".  And   
   depending on the package it may be more expensive than "priority mail"   
   even without factoring in the "free" packaging that is available for   
   "priority mail".   
      
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