It is not possible to exceed the weight limit on a USPS small flat-rate box (1 Viewer)

[Gear]

https://boingboing.net/2022/04/23/n...the-weight-limit-of-a-usps-flat-rate-box.html

 

[allforcharity]

You see, everybody? It's completely safe and legit to send me your gold ingots by SFRB. You're welcome.

 

[MegaTon44]

Send 3 gold bars my way in a SFRB and let's test it out. What you lose in money, you gain in knowledge

 

[Thomacetti]

https://boingboing.net/2022/04/23/n...the-weight-limit-of-a-usps-flat-rate-box.html

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Hold my beer...

 

[Colquhoun]

If no known element at that size exceeds 70 lbs., why is there a specified weight limit at all?

So the USPS legal department created a disclaimer to protect them if someone mails alien material?
Nice.

 

[warma]

If no known element at that size exceeds 70 lbs., why is there a specified weight limit at all?

I’d like to think it’s because someone was having fun and wanted to challenge us.

More likely, someone saw a need to establish a weight limit, someone else calculated and reported the max weight, and then they called it a day.

 

[ekricket]

I’m in another hobby, flint knapping, and we mail these full of rocks. Best deal on the planet for shipping.

 

[FDLmold]

As a chemistry teacher, I have imagined doing this calculation with gold (19 g/cm^3), which is almost as dense as osmium but not quite, but I'd never done it. I figured the answer would be close. Cool stuff.

 

[gopherblue]

Obvs they've never encountered leaded TRK chips....

 

[Gear]

If I'm not mistaken, the 70-lb weight limit is for any size flat-rate box, i.e. up to and including large. It just happens that it doesn't make any sense for small

 

[joeyshin]

I put in two racks of chips and every time I drop it off the usps teller says “you’re getting your moneys worth with this one”

 

[warma]

I put in two racks of chips and every time I drop it off the usps teller says “you’re getting your moneys worth with this one”

In a small box?

 

[HaRDHouSeiNC]

In a small box?

Yes
If it fits it ships

 

[Colquhoun]

I know two racks fits in a SFRB, and I've seen it done...but I'm not comfortable doing it.

 

[Thomacetti]

I know two racks fits in a SFRB, and I've seen it done...but I'm not comfortable doing it.

it is NOT possible to ship 2 racks of chips in a SFRB...only with no padding (no go for clay)

 

[joeyshin]

it is NOT possible to ship 2 racks of chips in a SFRB...only with no padding (no go for clay)

I’ve done it several times.

 

[ovo]

70 lbs is the maximum postal limit for everything, although I thought there might be a surcharge to go above that, but I might be wrong

 

[Goldfish]

it is NOT possible to ship 2 racks of chips in a SFRB...only with no padding (no go for clay)

I do this all the time. I put 2 boxes of chips in the SFRB. then wrap the entire box in bubble wrap, then put the bubble wrapped package in a bubble wrap mailing envelope and tape it up. Works fine.

 

[Ben8257]

So did anyone else start scratching their head on putting Osmium in CPC chips? Hmm a Troy OZ costs $400... that's 31.1 grams or $12.86 per gram... so if we were trying to get a 7 gram chip over the 10g threshold it would only add $38.58 per chip to the cost, not bad goven the current chipping market... but of course we better make sure it would be safe.

Ok never mind... lol

 

[Zmasterben]

so if we were trying to get a 7 gram chip over the 10g threshold it would only add $38.58 per chip to the cost

Chips with the rarest precious metal in the universe and they are still slightly cheaper than what the RPC resellers are asking per chip

 

[LeGold]

I do this all the time. I put 2 boxes of chips in the SFRB. then wrap the entire box in bubble wrap, then put the bubble wrapped package in a bubble wrap mailing envelope and tape it up. Works fine.

But that's not a SFRB shipment anymore, is it?

 

[Goldfish]

But that's not a SFRB shipment anymore, is it?

There is a small box in there somewhere.

 

[Jeff]

Chips with the rarest precious metal in the universe and they are still slightly cheaper than what the RPC resellers are asking per chip

QFT