don’t even know what this would be like, but on ebay for eg. if you are underweight they just charge your account for the extra
It looks like this. The mail man knocks on your door and asks for money before delivering it. Don’t know why USPS thinks it is worth the mail man’s time to collect such a low amount of money.
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weird thats literally never happened to me 
so what happens if you don’t have cash 
They leave you a slip that says postage is due and you have to drive to the main post office in town to pay it and pick up the envelope. Super frustrating, especially when it’s for someone I am middle manning for, not even my card and it takes a half hour round trip
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When I first moved here from out of state it seemed like every raw card shipment was marked postage due by the local PO. I would get the slips in my mailbox and be expected to drive 30 minutes round trip and stand in line to deal with it.
I started submitting formal complaints to the PO every time they did it and they seem to have gotten better. Most recently they delivered the envelope, but attached a postage due slip to it.
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I’m a dumb dumb and don’t read ahead. I’ve never had postage due for a card so you can strike my response from the tally. 30lbs of electric wheelchair motors crammed into a flat rate shipping box? That’s a different story. Free shipping my ass
Not often and usually enough at once that there’s no way to get away with standard postage.
It’s not worth the postie’s time, but they have to spot check occasionally and enforce it or everyone would completely disregard their PWE requirements since there’d be no repercussions.
FWIW, I moved back to the US (from the UK) in Jan and have since restarted my pokemon business here. I’ve sent out well over 1,000 PWE’s between ebay/TCGPlayer from March to now and have had a grand total of 1 returned to me for postage due. That particular PWE had 5 (bulk) cards in a card saver, so probably didn’t pass the flexibility requirements. None of my customers have received a postage due notice to my knowledge. I always use card savers, not toploaders.
If it’s happening to you frequently there’s either something wrong with your letters or you have a particularly militant USPS employee involved.
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I have never had postage due.
The only memorable instance for me was when the seller used a priority mail envelope to ship a single card first class. USPS charged me the difference, and since it was something I wanted I just accepted it, even tho EVERY USPS office has refused to handle a Priority envelope without proper postage. 
Seller gave me a refund for postage due, thankfully.
Not in the US, but similar things have happened to me in the United Kingdom with Royal Mail.
Rather than delivering the envelope, they left a note saying I needed to collect it from the local depot and pay the difference. (It was just a top-loaded card inside a PWE that had been paid for with stamps.)
This has only happened to me once or twice, but it also happened to a buyer I shipped to previously, even though I used a prepaid label instead of stamps. I don’t sell very often, so since then, I’ve decided to pay for the next tier of postage and upgrade the packaging to bubble mailers.
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