Comments on: Certified Mail Return Receipt Requested

By: Jan Duncan

Jan Duncan — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:23:48 +0000

I sent important papers to my manager by certifed, return receipt requested mail. She claims she was out of town and when she finally went to the post office 21 days later, the envelope was no longer there. How long does the post office trying to deliver the certifed mail keep it? Will they eventually send it back to me? how much time can I expect that to take?

By: Christine Loll

Christine Loll — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:30:39 +0000

I am trying to find the postage rates for sending a Certified Return Receipt letter. Please help.

By: Robert Gardner

Robert Gardner — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:41:39 +0000

I just sent three envelopes by Certified Mail and purchased electonic return receipt. I cannot find anywhere on the USPS web site where I enter the receipt numbers. Help?

By: Certified Mail Envelopes

Certified Mail Envelopes — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:17:25 +0000

Hi Brenda – We suggest using Certified Mail Envelopes with Electronic Return Receipt. This provides proof of mailing, in-route letter tracking and of course the final delivery confirmation authored by USPS for each Certified Mail letter. In addition USPS can even provide you the PDF file of the Signature image if you need it. I would suggest you look at the Certified Mail Envelopes Electronic Return Receipt options to save some time and Money on sending your USPS Certified Mail letters. Then remind your boss how much money your saving the company annually.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:50:25 +0000

Help! I mail alot of Certified Mail and it gets expensive. The Post Offices Green Card is spendy, is there any way to lower the cost and still get the proof of deliver? Thanks, Brenda

By: Certified Mail Envelops

Certified Mail Envelops — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:34:28 +0000

No problem. Take your receipt showing you paid for the Certified Mail letter to a Post Office, your receipt will have the USPS Certified Mail article number on the receipt. Instruct the USPS clerk you wish to purchase ‘Signature After Mailing’ and complete form Form 3811-A to receive by fax, mail, or e-mail your Signature.
USPS will charge you $4.60 for this service. Next time you may want to use our service Certified Mail Envelopes to prevent lost the green return receipt card . We keep a copy of all the transactions online fo 7 years free. Plus you can access on the web 24/7 – 365. Did I mention you can also save $.75 postage cost as well :> Ok – enough for the commercial. Have a great day.

By: sheeneka

sheeneka — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:49:26 +0000

say if you lost the green return receipt card, letting you know that the receiver received it and who signed for it. how can you obtain that information. i do have the receipt showing that i payed for it and that it was sent to them. thank you

By: Certified Mail Envelops

Certified Mail Envelops — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:16:48 +0000

Hello Dianna, you are correct going to the Post Office for just ‘proof of mailing’ can be time consuming.

Each of our Envelopes includes bar codes to report date and time of ‘in-route’ letter delivery plus the final delivery scan. We activate each certified tracking number when you print it. If you drop your letter into a USPS collection box, the letter is taken to a regional Post Office for high-speed sorting and routing. This is when our electronic tracking bar code would record the date and time of USPS routing and tracking. Many of our clients are comfortable using this as proof ‘the letter is in the mail’ and have USPS electronic date and time scans to back up the transaction.

Remember USPS Letter Carriers can also accept a Certified Mail letter. Skip the trip to the Post Office and let the Post Office Come to You was the promotional mailer used about 4 years ago. A letter carrier will accept your Certified Mail letter and provide you a receipt on acceptance. We have a number of companies that literally exchange ‘in-bound and out-bound’ mail in office buildings to eliminate trips to the Post Office.

In general, that’s what the majority of people are doing today – except Tax mailings that face April 15th deadlines! For many people cutting Uncle Sam a check earlier than April 15th is very hard to do.

By: Dianna

Dianna — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:18:28 +0000

I have used a similar program in the past and like the all-electronic idea. The most time consuming / frustrating part of the certified mail process is having to take the Certified Mail Receipt (PS Form 3800) to the Post Office to have it date stamped for proof of mailing (not proof of delivery). In reviewing your program and several software programs on certified mail, it doesn’t appear that this step has been eliminated.

Am I missing something? How does the proof of mailing portion work?

By: Certified Mail Envelops

Certified Mail Envelops — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:47:25 +0000

Hi Theresa, do you have the USPS Certified Mail Article Number? It begins with 70 or 71?