A viral social media post claims you can send the mail back and the company has to pay for it.
This online post claims if you over-stuff a no-postage required reply envelope and mail it back to the company, they will have to pay extra postage.
So is it true if you mail an overweight no-postage envelope to the company, is the company responsible for the extra postage?
To find out, our researchers contacted theĀ U.S. Postal Service.
Officials said each distributor sending out mail with Business Reply envelopes is required to hold a permit from the Postal Service.
Permit holders guarantee payment of proper First-Class mail postage, plus a per-piece fee on all returned Business Reply Mail distributed by the permit holder.
According to the Postal Service, the distributor assumes the risk, for example, if the envelope is returned and it’s overweight.
So we verified — yes, companies are responsible for all postage on Business Reply envelopes they get back. WUSA
When companies take out the Brm permits
they state what will be returned.
1 oz letters
2 oz letters
flats
parcels
If someone slaps a 1 oz envelope on a box of bricks the owner of the permit may refuse it.