FYI, if you use Stamps.com the shipping rates are pretty much identical
to Ebay and if you create a shipping label online with USPS, those rates
are very close to the Ebay rates as well. All of these rates are
cheaper than if you ship by visiting a USPS office/Post Office.
So if you want cheap USPS shipping only walk into a Post Office to drop
off a package.
Also, the mail insurance that Stamps.com offers is a lot cheaper than
USPS insurance.
Last, you can order free USPS shipping boxes from the USPS website.
They will deliver them for free, really, no charge to obtain them, or
have them delivered.
Dave
On 6/22/2018 12:47 AM, Kurt Jacobson wrote:
Chris, that is a very clever way to get the cheap eBay rates for non eBay
shipments! I'll have to keep that in mind for sure.
Cheers,
Kurt Jacobson
505-303-1933
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On Fri, Jun 22, 2018, 12:28 AM Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Shipping price depends on from where it is shipped. Every country agrees
to accept mail from everyone else. So the trick is to ship it from a
country with very low postage rates. This means the people in Europe are
best off buying from China as shipping from China is cheap.
If if must be shipped from the US then you can use flat rate shipping.
Domestically flat rate has no weight limit but international it does have a
limit. You get the best shipping rate if
1) You fill the flat rate box rite up to the weight limit and
2) Ship it using your eBay account as eBay gets a good discount off the
normal US Post office rates. Ship it using the same system you used to
ship sold packages, just change the name on an old shipment and "re-send"
it. I just send a box that would have gone for $4.80 and paid $3.70
although it is light weight and local.
There is no way to send it cheap but discounted USPS Flat Rate is the least
bad way I have found, other then buying from China
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 4:52 PM andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote:
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From: dave engvall <dengv...@charter.net>
Date: 22 June 2018 at 00:19
Subject: shipping
To: andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com>
Hi Andy,
I'm trying to post on emc-users and getting rejected claiming the my
isp is a source of spam.
What I'm trying to do is hang a request (OT) on the list looking for
cheap and not so fast ways of getting alloy steel across the pond. To
Germany or Austria. Cheap trumps speed. Do you have any ideas and/or
can you post to the list in my name.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Dave
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