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Penalties are even worse!
"... .058 cents per piece for presorted letters. Add .042 cents to standard mail and .021 cents to each nonprofit piece of mail..."
Actually, that should be 5.8, 4.2, and 2.1 cents-- 100x higher! Use decimals and dollar signs ($0.058) or move the decimal and use "cents" (5.8 cents), not both.
Numbers are correct, but...
Hi Mike,
The author doublechecked with the post office, which says that the numbers are correct as originally stated. However, to forestall any confusion, we are going to reword the article slightly.
We are replacing the following paragraph:
Those surcharges can add up when tens of thousands of pieces go out. If they can't be deciphered by machine, the nonmachinable surcharge is an additional 13 cents for a First Class single piece rate and .058 cents per piece for presorted letters. Add .042 cents to standard mail and .021 cents to each nonprofit piece of mail, and additional charges could easily be thousands more than expected.
With this slightly reworded paragraph:
Those surcharges can add up when tens of thousands of pieces go out. If they can't be deciphered by machine, the surcharge is an additional 13 cents for a nonmachinable First Class single piece rate and .058 cents per piece for nonmachinable presorted letters. Add .042 cents to standard nonmachinable mail and .021 cents to each nonmachinable nonprofit piece of mail and additional charges could be more than expected.
I hope that helps clear up the charge amounts.