Earlier this year in a story about the U.S. Postal Service (Saving the Post Office) , the Washington Post briefly mentioned tiny cardboard scales (pictured below) that the post office was offering so customers could easily weigh their letters. The article created somewhat of a demand for the cardboard postal scales.

According to the Washington Post: 

It turns out the Postal Service didn’t distribute the nifty little scales in all post offices. But after a limited giveaway last fall, it will distribute 200,000 “in early summer” to 18,000 post offices nationwide, according to Gerald J. McKiernan, a Postal Service spokesman. The post office will sell them for a “modest cost,” McKiernan said. They shouldn’t cost much, because the post office is paying the manufacturer “much less than the cost of a first-class stamp” for each one, according to the Dutch co-inventor of the scale, which is given away by many major postal services, including Royal Mail and Deutsche Post, he said.”

Several PostalReporter.com readers are wondering whatever happened to the “sale” of the tiny cardboard postal scales??