Just shaking my head......

The 48-cent meter you show is actually correct. The USPS is giving a 1-cent discount for metered postage and print-your-own postage from the Internet.

As for the 46-cent meter...my guess is you're right, that whoever put it in your box didn't care. Or they were too busy to bother looking; who knows.

At any rate, at least the mail sent to you had some postage paid. Where I work, we receive on a not infrequent basis envelopes with NO postage at all that were postmarked but not marked postage due.

The no postage applied thingy has never happened to me. In fact, I had a letter returned because the PO thought that there was not enough. I reweighed the letter and it was still under 1 ounce. When I took it to the PO, neither the clerk nor the postmaster could explain why it had happened.

I should have billed them for my time and gas that was required to get it all figured out but I didn't!

That is sad.

The attitude of that clerk is fairly common throughout the USPS.

We wonder why their rates keep going up and they wonder why they loose customers to Fed-Ex and UPS. The answer could not be plainer, they don't care about the people who keep them in business.

Can't really blame the clerk as much as the management that is in place. If something isn't done soon, they will run themselves right out of business.