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Below is a link to use to look at the 2019 Shipping rates for USPS. If you use calculated shipping, this is less of an issue, but if you use flat rate shipping or free shipping, make sure you know the increases and how you should adjust.
Most importantly, the USPS will now use Zone Rate Pricing for First Class Packages, so your prices will change the farther you have to ship (no longer the same price by weight across the country.
Our big changes will be that we will move our Padded Flat Rate pricing from $6.99 to $7.99 and all First Class from $4 to $4.99. We use a flat $9.99 for Regional A boxes, and we will continue to use that pricing. We will win some/lose some, but we generally come out about even.
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My local postmistress had let me know that a lot of dimensional weight was going away, which might help with some very large boxes.
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This would be huge. Have you found any official documentation that dimensional weight was going away?
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I agree Jay. These light but larger size boxes, up an over 1,728 cubic inches cost a lot more just because of their footprint. I am packing one right now, 24x18x18 but less than 5 lbs. Lamp shade and a lamp base but it sold for $80 but over $25 to ship to Virginia.
Also I just went to do my first labels this morning and I see a brand new, more modern looking shipping interface. Things located in new places, so I had to slow dwn and read what was where. It does require a couple more clicks, but no big deal.
MIke at MDC Galleries and Fine Art.
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re: Dim Weight changes here in an easy to understand format not til June
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And don’t forget that a box resizer is a very good tool to have. We use ours a lot. After stuffing our box if it is more about an inch taller than where the stuffing comes up too we resize using the tool.
Cutting 2 inches off the height of a box can bring it back down under the dim. weight area. Also it will reduce the overall weight by just a little bit and on marginal weight boxes that are just an ounce or two over a given pound, taking a couple inches off of the box size and reducing the packing will bring the box down into the lower pound weight. After resizing boxes many times when a box was, say 5.1 lbs, it becomes 4 lbs. 15 ozs after resizing and in turn you pay less for shipping.
Something to think about…
Mike at MDCGFA
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It may be a good time to try out the Letter Track Pro. I just went to their website again and their youtube. I asked a question about getting a real USPS tracking number. Which is the thing that matters to ebay as you know.
Furthermore, it’s important to note you are buying tracking NOT postage. I forgot that! So, I guess you need to buy postage (or stamps). I need to think through this IF they provide an actual tracking number. -
Bubblefast guy interview on USPS shipping changes
I thought this was fairly good coverage for resellers. Skip to 35:35 to go straight to the interview. I also like the link bcfol440 provided.
The DIM weight divisor is expanding in June and not going away (making it apply to smaller packages) plus they are adding it to close range packages in zone 1-4 priority. The average change in price on first class is a bit deceiving, because it is skewed on the high end – when you get closer to a pound (13-16 ounces) the price hike is like $1.50!.
Also of note, top rated sellers are not going to get an extra shipping discount because USPS doesn’t have two tiers of commercial discounts any longer. So if you are not jumping through hoops to get TRS status, you aren’t missing a discount on shipping any longer.
I’ve already gone through and taken off free shipping on a number of 10+ ounce items.
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