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08-22-2006, 02:58 PM | #1 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: VA
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| How does media mail work... does anyone know how media mail works? i am selling some books online through ebay for some extra cash this month and dont know how to go about the mailing. Thanks |
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08-22-2006, 03:07 PM | #2 |
Owned by 3 furbabies Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Reading, Pennsylvania
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| i would check into it at the post office, i won 4 game cube games on ebay over 2 months ago and she sent them media mail and i havnt got them yet . i did get a tracking number and it always says left texas on june 3rd...well where is it? lol i went to my post office and they are trying to find it ugggggg they shook their head when i told them she sent it media mail, they told me it gets lost alot..they said its probobly in the bottom of a bag ( because it was a small package) somewhere??????...$70 later i find that out good luck! i will never have anything sent media mail again .........
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08-22-2006, 03:11 PM | #3 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: VA
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| thanks for the heads up and i have had people ask me too send them the books for the media mail price, but i think i will stick with asking 4 bucks a books for regular mail, i think that will cover the cost pretty close, shoot i have had people selling things to mail for say 10.00 ups and they actually mailed it regualr mail for $2.31.... but i would hate to rip someone off on that |
08-22-2006, 03:25 PM | #4 |
Owned by 3 furbabies Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Reading, Pennsylvania
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| yes i know, some ebayers use shipping to make more money. i would never send anything media mail now that i know it gets lost so much. i dont think $4 is too much to mail a book or you could do what i did, pack it weigh it, measure the package, and use the calculator....then they click calculate and it will tell them exactly how much it will cost from your house to theirs i liked that....
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08-22-2006, 03:31 PM | #5 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: VA
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| i would put i do not ever have scales in the house..lol |
08-22-2006, 03:38 PM | #6 |
Owned by 3 furbabies Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Reading, Pennsylvania
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| lol that would be a little hard then
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08-22-2006, 04:37 PM | #7 |
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| im just guestimating the weight. all i really have are paperback romance/mystery novels |
08-22-2006, 05:09 PM | #8 | |
Mommy to 3 Princesses Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: DFW Texas
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Media Mail is the worldest slowest mail and most unreliable mail. Its super cheap but you get what you pay for . If you are selling a bunch of books you should get some priority mail flat rate boxes and mail them that way. Its fast, most effective and most secure. Ive lost too many packages via first class mail when I first started my business so now everything goes 2-3 day priority mail for $4 (for anything under a pound) I learned the hard way
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