Need help with the Cornell FIN AID form

syneria
Sat, 31 Dec 2005 23:33:53 +0000

I just guessed my package to weigh 4 ounces altogether. Because I looked up online, and it said a ream of paper that’ll produce 500 sheets of paper weighs 24 pounds. 24 pounds is 384 ounces. 384 divided by 500 is around 0.7-something ounces. So a sheet of regular paper is about 0.7 ounces. I’m only submitting 2 sheets of paper in a large envelope, so I guessed 1.4 ounces for the papers, another 1.5 for the envelope and then another ounce for safety. I figured better to “overpay” (which you don’t really, if you do the priority mail flat-something rate option) than for the package not to be mailed because I didn’t pay enough.