Common Sense eCommerce

If you’re selling goods on eBay, are you finding the Post Office to be a bit crowded this time of year? Print your postage online to save trips and long line waits in that crowded place. You can set up an account at USPS.Com and establish a “Click and Ship” account. Then just fill in the blanks and print out a label with postage on your own laser or ink jet printer.

Aside from a printer, one thing you will need is a postal scale. A good 5 pound postal scale can be purchased online at the USPS website (link here). If you need a higher capacity scale, they also have a 10 pound scale for not much more (link here). You can find these types of scales at Office Depot and other office supply stores.

In practice, things that weigh more than 5 pounds are generally best sent via another shipping method such as UPS or FedEX. Somewhere around 5 pounds you reach a point of diminishing value for shipping US Postal Service (unless the item can fit in one of their ‘flat rate’ boxes).

So what do you do with the package when you have printed the label with postage and attached it? Hand it to any postal carrier or you can drop it in the package drop bin at the post office. Then wave to the folks in line as you stroll by!

Tags: Postal Shipping Tips, Holiday Shipping, Online Postage

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