USPS do anything if you understate an items weight?

[quote name='Cheapass24']If I print a shipping label for a 5 ounce game and put 1 ounce instead, will USPS do anything?[/quote]

They'll probably send it back. If you do it multiple times you may get investigated for mail fraud (unlikely but possible)
 
Do you mean stick a 5-ounce shipping label on a 1-ounce game, or vice versa? Because I doubt they'll care if you overpay for the shipping.
 
They dont weight every single item so if you are off by an ounce or two you can usually get away with it. However if you put 1 ounce when it clearly is not you are almost always going to get it send back
 
I know I've underpaid by an ounce or so multiple times and it didn't matter. I wouldn't risk it with a big difference though. Just pay!
 
Lol, once I've received a package that was clearly around 8-9 ounces... guess what the weight on the label said.... 1 oz!
 
They don't always send it back if it's under-weighed. I've received games in the past where the lazy ass sender miscalculated the weight and I had to pay the difference.
 
I ask this because I've had 3 games shipped to me from diff sellers that stated one ounce and was wondering if USPS just didnt care at all
 
Sometimes the USPS will ask the recipient if they just want to pay the difference in shipping. Other times, they may just send it back.
 
here is what happens, every time your package passes a clerk if they notice that the postage is wrong they send it back if its in the city where you mailed it or (more likely) if its caught in the city where its going they try to collect the extra postage from the delivery point. sometimes if its small amount they just leave a envelope with the item saying please pay the postage due (the mailman pays the postage casue he/she is too lazy to go to the door for 25 cents or whatever), or they go to the door and try to collect the postage. if someone is there they can pay the extra and get the item or have it sent back, if no one is there they leave a note for them and they have to either go to the postoffice and pay the extra, or leave it in the mailbox and it will be delivered the next day. if your sending something to a friend/family dont see any harm in trying it but if your selling something or doing a trade from a matching site i wouldent recomend this, makes you look bad to your customer/trade partner.
 
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