[ILL-L] USPS Shipping Assistant?

[Catlin, Valerie]

I use USPS delivery confirmation (.75 additional charge) with library rate

for rarer and more valuable materials, and being able to track your package online

and know that it has been delivered is cheap peace of mind.

Unconfirmed, but one might hope that postal employees might be a bit more careful/

prompt with a tracked package. Recently, a package went from here in upstate NY to 

Stanford CA in 2 ½ days. Only once was a package apparently never scanned, but

the lender completed the request, so it got there.

 

Valerie Catlin

Mohawk Valley Library System

858 Duanesburg Road

Schenectady, NY 12306-1095

518-355-2010 x230  fax 518-355-0674

vcatlin at mvls.info         

www.mvls.info

OCLC: VML

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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Leslie Starasta
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 3:00 PM
To: 'Interlibrary Loan Listserv'
Subject: [ILL-L] USPS Shipping Assistant?

 

Dear fellow ILL-ers,

                I was wondering if anyone is using or has tried the USPS Shipping Assistant (http://www.usps.com/shippingassistant/welcome.htm?from=CNS&page=shippingassistant) for printing shipping labels?  My assistants really enjoy being able to print shipping labels and book straps directly through WorldCat as we don't have ILLIAD or CLIO, but my understanding is the Shipping Assistant would also provide information for delivery confirmation (for a modest fee of course).  I'm wondering if anyone else has used this and can give any feedback on using it.  I'm particularly interested in the delivery confirmation aspect as  I have a bill for a never received book we returned to another library and just received word that two books sent to another library never arrived.  :-(

 

Leslie



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