![]() I looked at your store the groups of stamps your selling are better priced for profit. This maybe a better way to clear out those stamps your planning to auction at so cheap start prices. What I sometimes do is giver stamp collectors some extra stamps in with their order. Do you have a large stamp following of your store? If not you will be giving away a lot of the stamps. So you may want to have the stamps verified at a US Post Office before risking your delivery is no real money in 99 cent auctions these days most of mine only get one or two minor bids and therefor no real profit. Now, if the recently purchased "cheap" postage stamps are those Chinese counterfeit Forever stamps that have flooded the site, there may be a problem if the stamps are detected within the USPS sytem. A coin might make it if taped to a thin piece of cereal box cardboard that is the same size as the envelope. The letter must be flexible enough to pass through the automated sorting machinery. For your shipping provider, this would be First Class Mail (letter mail). If you are listing as if from Canada, then the service would be called "Standard Shipping from Outside the US". If you are listing on eBay US, as if delivered from a US origination, this would be called "USPS First Class". There would be no tracking with this option. ![]() The next level of service for lightweight items, which also provides tracking, is "USPS First Class Package", in the neighborhood of US $3 to US $6.Īnd the cheapest would be simple First Class Mail (letter class), using a letter envelope up to 3.5 ounces. USPS has a Flat Rate slogan "if it fits, it ships" for one price. The USPS Flat Rate is a Priority Mail service, with prices in the general range of US $8 to US $20. Unfortunately, it was specialty equipment and very expensive you (or your shipping service) plan to cross the border from Canada to the US and drop your items into the US Postal system, the following applies: In that case, it was an electronic pressure sensor, the size of a quarter but thinner, that I needed for my master's degree research project. I once received an empty envelope with a small slit in one end, and that was exactly what had happened to the coin-sized contents. Otherwise, they are likely to be squirted out of the envelope like a tube of toothpaste. taped to the cardboard, or within folds that prevent them from sliding. Of course, they do need to be secured, i.e. If you're sending a few coins, I would think that you would be able to secure them between 2 thin pieces of cardboard to meet both of those requirements. has to have an even thickness all the way along the length of it.Trading card sellers run into problems with this, because some of them want to put the cards into rigid plastic containers, or "top loaders". The biggest hang-ups sellers have run into, is that machinable mail and eBay standard envelope: it is non-machinable) then it costs more to process, and mail. In order to qualify for the special postage rate, the envelope has to be machinable. If you mean the special eBay shipping type, that is considered First Class, I think. I wonder if that is mixed up with eBay Standard Envelope? More info: ![]() I haven't heard them called "Standard" Flat rate though. So that would be "Other mail class", I would think. They come in several sizes: Need a visual aid? We’ve got you covered.If so, that is Priority Mail, not first class. If you need to use a thicker or more rigid envelope to better protect what you’re shipping, check with your local post office to ensure your envelope fits the postage bracket and guidelines.
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