NEW USPS PRIORITY MAIL FLAT RATE BOX

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Longfellow

Longfellow

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Has anyone tried to print a shipping label for the new small flat rate box using Paypals "Print a Shipping Label" option. I have the boxes but only find the old Flat Rate box listed by Pitney Bowes. I also can't find a listing for the large,($13.95) box
 
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I believe the small box is the same as the flat rate envelope so you should be able to use use that.

For the bigger box...haven't tried it yet.
 
Not sure why you can't use paypal and ship a big flat rate box???I have to go to the USPS site and do it,its a real pain takes twice as long.I have yet to try the smaller box,but if they can't get the big box in the system by now how long for the small one(a year off).Good Luck,Victor
 
Dario,

Are you assuming you can use the flat rate envelope lable or do you know for sure? The reason I ask is the postage may be the same but if you look on the label, it says "Flat Rate Envelope". You know the P.O.! They may very well kick it back since it is not a flat rate envelope!
 
MesquiteMan said:
Dario,

Are you assuming you can use the flat rate envelope lable or do you know for sure? The reason I ask is the postage may be the same but if you look on the label, it says "Flat Rate Envelope". You know the P.O.! They may very well kick it back since it is not a flat rate envelope!
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I am assuming. :biggrin:

Back in San Antonio, the postal clerks I talk to told me they only care about the amount of stamps paid. You can over pay but not underpay. That is it.

They even allowed me to use a flat rate envelope label plus stamps applied to a regular flat rate box once because I made an error and I was asking them to void it for me.
 
Dario said:
Good question thought since we all know they can be inconsistent and some PO sometimes have different interpretation of the rules. So YMMV.
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If your question is important, never-never, never-ever accept what a clerk tells you as fact. Speak to a supervisor, and if still in doubt insist that they show you the regulation in question.
Try shipping a pistol. Go to a dozen different POs and you will get a dozen different reactions.
BTW, click and ship labels can be cancelled on-line.
 
Did any one catch the part about the large envelope has to be of uniform thickness, or else it's classed as a package? I wonder if that means it costs same a box?
 
bitshird said:
Did any one catch the part about the large envelope has to be of uniform thickness, or else it's classed as a package? I wonder if that means it costs same a box?
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where do you see that? All I see is that the item "must reasonably fit inside the priority mail packaging" and be less than 70 pounds.
 
Check this out... I went to my little town post office this after noon (1/28) and I was told that I could not use the flat rate envelope anymore for shipping anything with "this sort of thickness". She said that I had to use the flat rate box. Has anyone else had this issue. Mind you, our very rural post office is in an old caboose, hence the name Thompsons Station, TN.
 
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