@with_gwrote:No one answered your question or even attempted to but I have the same question. How can I just pre purchase the non machinable fee? Did you ever figure it out?
You can't. The question was answered, in the first reply.
eBay Standard Envelope shipments have to be machinable. An envelope that is not machinable does not qualify for ESE.
As suggested, most of the time when an ESE envelope does not qualify as machinable, it is because the post office found that the envelope was "too rigid". The envelope has to be bendable/flexible in order to be processed by machine. The envelope gets automatically scanned by the machines, to provide the low-cost scanning service, so if it has to be processed by hand, then it may not get scanned.
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