There's a reason I said AREA, and not town/city. I'm from a small town with only a single post office, but because it was so small the next town over wasn't very far if you had a car, and anyone who lives in a small town is likely to have a car because most don't have public transport. So yeah, I do doubt that as an excuse, given the context... The context being they sold a physical item--because like you said, if their schedule conflicts THAT MUCH with the post office you'd think they wouldn't have sold physical items to begin with.
"You can't pick it up if the office is closed and it's too big to fit in a PO Box." ^Yes, I know, but that has zero bearing on mailing things out and on what I was saying. I'm saying when you pick stuff up, you have to pick it up from a specific post office and thus are restricted to that post office's hours. If you're mailing something out, you can go to a different location, so it's not the same situation really. It's not that I can't see how someone's schedule might conflict with their local post office, it's moreso that I can't see, if someone has a car, why they couldn't go to a different post office completely. But if all post offices in the surrounding area have the same exact schedule, then I could see how it'd be difficult, but then they should've thought of that beforehand. (And I know you've said that, we're agreeing on that point.)
Also, actually, priority mail doesn't require a special envelope at all. It just requires a priority mail label. The only time it requires a special envelope/box is when you are specifically using flat-rate or regional boxes. Otherwise, you just buy it online, print it out, and slap it on any old mailer/box.
You can't buy first-class postage on the USPS website anymore, but you can get around that simply by using Paypal's shipping label thing, so.
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Date: 2016-06-19 06:28 pm (UTC)"You can't pick it up if the office is closed and it's too big to fit in a PO Box."
^Yes, I know, but that has zero bearing on mailing things out and on what I was saying. I'm saying when you pick stuff up, you have to pick it up from a specific post office and thus are restricted to that post office's hours. If you're mailing something out, you can go to a different location, so it's not the same situation really. It's not that I can't see how someone's schedule might conflict with their local post office, it's moreso that I can't see, if someone has a car, why they couldn't go to a different post office completely. But if all post offices in the surrounding area have the same exact schedule, then I could see how it'd be difficult, but then they should've thought of that beforehand. (And I know you've said that, we're agreeing on that point.)
Also, actually, priority mail doesn't require a special envelope at all. It just requires a priority mail label. The only time it requires a special envelope/box is when you are specifically using flat-rate or regional boxes. Otherwise, you just buy it online, print it out, and slap it on any old mailer/box.
You can't buy first-class postage on the USPS website anymore, but you can get around that simply by using Paypal's shipping label thing, so.