machine to continue on its merry way like any other piece of mail this can however potentially create a problem as with some caveats it is a federal crime to knowingly open someone else's mail something that can easily happen by accident when removing tape from a thin paper envelope as such some postal workers may be worried about trying to remove the change in some cases even if it is the correct amount in these cases they may either send it back to you or to the mail Recovery Center more colloquially known as the dead letter office as we've discussed in our video about that subject workers in the mail Recovery Center are incredibly committed to their jobs so there's a good chance that a letter will probably still get delivered even if this does happen moving on it turns out that the United States Postal office has a number of obscure rules related to mail and postage that vary in accordance with geography for example if you live well outside of a major city and far away from any suburb or the like your mail will in all likelihood be handled by a rural letter carrier due to the nature of their work rural letter carriers are granted a host of perks not enjoyed by traditional mail carriers these include the ability to wear their own chosen clothing and drive their own vehicle if they so wish more relevant to the topic at hand beyond the parks they are also empowered to function as a sort of mobile post office for example if you'd like to buy stamps just waiter your mailbox for the rural mail person to arrive or leave appropriate funds in the mailbox with a nose and generally they'll be happy to sell you some postage they are also able to process Express smell and priority mail or do what's needed to help you mail a package even with insurance or sell you a money order process certified or registered mail all essentially the same way the postal workers would do it if you actually went into the post office as you might have guessed from all of this if you simply leave the required money for postage for a piece of mail in your mailbox perhaps in a separate envelope paper clips to the envelope or Priority Mail item that you wish to mail with instructions on what the money is for they should happily process that for you the same as if you had gone to the post office to have it done yourself and in this case if you leave extra money for a book of stamps they should leave that too the idea here is that people that live out of the way from what populated regions often have to drive a long way to get to the post office so they simply empower their rural carriers to do many of the tasks right there your mailbox finally at this point you might be wondering how often people actually send mail with money instead of postage attached it turns out that not very often relative to the number of letters process daily according to USPS they process approximately NUMBER_TOKEN million pieces of first-class mail every day of which only a couple of dozen items may have money instead of steps attached but hey the reality is that today we mostly use email and that brings me to you today sponsor NUMBER_TOKEN they want to tell you a bit about before we get into the bonus facts today so if you want to be that smartest person in the room well the NUMBER_TOKEN daily digest is perfect for you and give them the number of emails I get about people saying that they tell the stories from our videos to their colleagues and friends this could be right up your street but hey the reality is if you're anything like me you get way too many emails on a regular basis and you don't
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