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Originally Posted by s13silviagirl  Just a thought, to all those with businesses, have you thought about having the postal meter thing put into your home/business? It weighs the item and prints a label, then charges your account. Something to think about. Also, forgive me if I am wrong on all of this as I have been out of the US for almost 4 years, but doesn't the PO pick up if you call and ask for pick up, especially on the flat-rate boxes? |
I use priority mail or UPS and both are built into paypal. I use a kitchen scale for small packages and a large shipping scale for large ones.
You box everything up, weigh it, and it prints the label. I drop them off at the PO because I tend to take them right before the truck comes at 5:30 rather than waiting until the next day. Priority is easy. It's those who are shipping bows and things that use first class mail that have to deal with the new rates. The rates used to be based only on weight. They recently changed it to count thickness as well. It's very hard to calculate what a thicker envelope (over 1/4") might cost because some are considered a "flat" and some a "package" We have a postage meter at my work (day job) and it's just as confusing.