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There are even smaller ones, like standard letter size and a few other varieties. Do those fall under the standard price too?
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If you’re shipping under 1 lb., you can use “first class” postage which is cheaper, you just can’t use the priority envelopes for that. Are you looking for the cheapest way to ship something in particular? “First class packages” start in the $2.60+ range. You can also use regular “first class letter” postage, which is even cheaper, but tracking isn’t included so it could count against your “shipping uploaded and validated” stats.
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Thanks for the replies. I sell mostly clothes and a lot of it is under 1lb. Sometimes, Ebay’s shipping discount makes the Priority and First Class shipping about equal. Other times it doesn’t. How does that work?
On my listings, I’ve been selecting Priority for domestic shipping and First Class for international. What do you recommend? Should I change domestic to First Class? Should I offer both options? I’m not even sure it would make a difference because I’m shipping out of an office building in the Chicago Loop across the street from the post office and stuff seems to arrive within 2-3 days anywhere in the U.S.
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We sell a lot of clothes, and for any item under 1lb, we do First Class shipping, with a secondary option of Priority Padded Flat Rate.
For items over 1lb, we check to see if it will fit in Priority Padded Flat Rate, if not, 1st option is Parcel, second option is Priority (by weight).
For suits, sport coats, and other items that fit, since they are over 2lbs, we offer flat rate $9.99 Priority Regional A pricing, as that is cheapest.
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You have to order the Regional A & Regional B boxes from the Post Office Web Site.
It is a lower pricing structure for Priority that bases the cost on how many regions the package has to cover. It allows for up to 15lbs in the box (for Regional A), so the weight is not the issue, only the number of regions away you are shipping.
We find that the MOST we ever pay is $9.99 (Colorado to New York), so we just flat rate that for the customers. We will actually at least break even if not make a little on the actual shipping cost).
If you order the Regional A boxes, check the sizes. There are at least two sizes, and you want the short flat box (height is around 4″=5″) for suits, sport coats, jackets etc. We rarely use the other size (sorry I don’t have the actual dimensions with me now, and Veronica always orders the shipping supplies!).
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No, you can ship anywhere in the US with the Regional Box. Regional only means that the price is based on how many regions the package travels.
Check the link below for better information. You get a discounted price using eBay than what they show here. The box I use most for suits/sport coats is the 11 1⁄16″ × 2 ½″ × 13 1⁄16″.
I have only used the Regional B box once, and that was because a buyer purchased a sport coat and 5 shirts on one order.
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