I'm not certain what current regs are but I THINK there was a 50# or 75# limit at one time. Heavier than that and I think they can drop you a note that YOU have to pick it up in person.GasGuzzler wrote:I had 62 pounds of WWs sent in a flat rate box and a postal employee in his personal dually brought it to the house. I ASSume because it was more weight than the carrier is required to deliver.
Post up pics when you got rolling.
Typically the heaviest thing that was shipped through the mail was Encyclopedias back when they made them and they typically were shipped in two containers. A full large flat rate box of lead would be a heavy son of a gun.
Rural letter carriers are NOT supplied with a vehicle. Some of them are still running either the old DJs and I suspect many may have ended up purchasing surplused LLVs (three lies for the price of one from what I've heard) that the postal system replaced the DJs with. The city route carriers are typically required to be uniformed and their vehicles are supplied. Rural carriers are not typically uniformed and they supply and maintain their own vehicles. The IRS decided once upon a time to try and tax the rural carriers unused vehicle allowance. After they audited a bunch of the carriers I understand the word went out 'NEVER MIND!' Seems a whole lot of the carriers kept enough records that they could claim more than the allowance.