eBay international shipping solutions...

I have been and will always be glad to help anyone. Just shoot me a PM should you require help.

UK is £15 now lads

Damn they keep lowering it!

cribbs74 wrote:I have been and will always be glad to help anyone. Just shoot me a PM should you require help.

As am I cribbs,as am I. Situations like this bring to mind the addage " if you are not part of the solution,you are part of the problem";I prefer to help solve

Same for me, just pm me.
John

0.) Know the postage rates like the back of your hand Look at website below
1.) Calculate your postage To Usa, Hawaii AK, Canada, and finally every where else
2.) Calculate Shipping profit.
3.) Only profit reasonably "Come up with a formula" on international shipping AND Additional since it does take longer to slap on a customs form. To do this you must know postage rates
If you're stupid it's hard to figure out I know I am took me like an hour first time I did.
4.) Never get discouraged or scared of shipping INT. Non Americans are generally just as honest. I have only had 1 or 2 problems with Italians stealing from me. IT IS NOT A HASSLE IT IS NOT HARD IT IS Almost as cheap and a little more effort
5.) http://webapps.usps.com/customsforms/ Printable online customs form
6.) Take free bags from Kroger/wal-mart Piggly wiggly 7eleven Andersons Whatever and convert them to

There are xtra nice as these are wax lined and seal with heat


I have a few other secrets but they are WAY too slick and sly. It would be like giving away candy. MMMMM CANDY.
You can read when you buy my EBAY BOOK LOL. That I'm writing

POSTAGE RATES Thank you www.nerdylorrin.net/jerry/postages/index.html J. I. Nelson, Ph.D.

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An unofficial site by Jerry Nelson.
Inspired by the friendliest home town post office in the USA, Lafayette, TN (see "My Two Bits" at end)

Note: mail that can’t get through a sorting machine costs more.
A flat, flexible business-sized envelope is cheaper than flat, flexible manila envelopes that need bigger sorting machines and they are cheaper than thick, inflexible envelopes of the same size and weight that are UNMACHINABLE.
Letters 1st Class 45¢ + 20¢
1 oz $0.45 Bad envelope penalty 20¢
2 ounces $0.65
3 ounces $0.85
3.5 oz $1.05 Heavier? Go to FLATS (next).

Up 2 cents from $0.42 on 11May09.
Incrementing 20¢, not 17¢, on 17April2011.
Up 1 cent from $0.44 on 22Jan2012.

Rigid object inside? Metal clasp? Button & closure string?
Add non-machinable penalty ("bad envelope" penalty), increased to $0.20 May08;
unchanged for '09, '10, '11, '12 praise the Lord.
Square? Goes though their machines but they can’t tell which way? Add $0.20
Almost square (less than 30% height-width difference)? Add $0.20.
Too skinny? (long length more than 2.5x short)? Add $0.20.
Length over 11 ½” ? Go to “Flats” (next)
Height over 6 1/8”? Go to “Flats”.
(A Size 14 envelope is OK; Size 10 is normal)
Thicker than ¼”? Go to “Flats”.

Tired? Sorry. Too bad. Congress gave away its power of oversight and let the Postal Service change rates by itself.

“Flats” (Large 1st Class Envelopes)

1 oz $0.90 and add 20 cents each additional ounce as of 17April2011; unchanged 2012
2 ounces $1.10
3 ounces $1.30 (fold it in half and go in a business envelope for 85 cents)
4 ounces $1.50
5 ounces $1.70
6 ounces $1.90
7 ounces $2.10
8 ounces $2.30
9 ounces $2.50
10 ounces $2.70
11 ounces $2.90
12 ounces $3.10
13 ounces $3.30

FLATS:
Over 13 oz? Consider Priority Mail flat-rate envelope.
Your envelope is inflexible, lumpy, not rectangular? Go to “Packages”.
(No cardboard to prevent creased photos, sorry.)
Length over 15” ? Go to “Packages”.
Height over 12”? Go to “Packages”.
Thicker than 1/4"? Go to “Packages”

After 12May08, it went up 3¢
After 11May09, it went up 5¢
After 17Apr11, it incremented 20¢ /oz instead of just 17¢
After 22Jan12, it went up 2¢


First Class Flats padded envelopes and small pkgs
International and Postcards PRIORITY
ExpressMail $$$ and insurance MediaMail (bookrate)
Money Orders, Delivery Confirm Print your own zone chart Parcel Post


Packages / Small Cartons / Lumpy envelopes 1st class

Padded envelopes not over 3/4" thick, rigid photo mailers, medical samples, small boxes under 1 cubic foot. You may write on your little box, "1st Class Airmail." The official name is "1st Class Package" or "1st Class Mail Parcel" ( not Parcel Post ! ).

2011: No longer available on-line to the American public.
Pitney-Bowes can print it for eBay Inc, but you and I have to stand in line at the Post Office.

But wait! To send small 1st Class Packages ON LINE, go to this unpublicized URL ("Universal Resource Locater" or Web address): https://www.paypal.com/ShipNow (Thank you, JohnD.)

You must be a registered PayPal user (a part of eBay, Inc). You must enter a PayPal user name and password. No coffee breaks! If your session times out, you'll lose the address you were typing and have to log in all over again.

This page normally comes up only if you sold something on eBay and must ship it. There is not supposed to be public access. When public access to this URL is shut down, there will be some excuse. You didn't sell on eBay, we don't know what you are sending. But all our parcels are subject to opening for postal inspection, so tell me again, What are you afraid of? Explain one more time why it is up to eBay, Inc. to say whether we, the American people, have the right to use our own postal system? Keep small parcel access available on line -- the Post Office needs the money as much as eBay. All Americans want a Postal Service.
1 oz $1.95
2 ounces $1.95
3 ounces $1.95 and add 17 cents each additional ounce
4 ounces $2.12
5 ounces $2.29
6 ounces $2.46
7 ounces $2.63
8 ounces $2.80
9 ounces $2.97
10 ounces $3.14
11 ounces $3.31
12 ounces $3.48
13 ounces $3.65

(After 12May08, it went up 4¢ )
(After 11May09 it went up 5¢ )
(After 17Apr11 the 1st 3 oz were made all the same & only 2¢ less than what 4 oz used 2B)
(After 22 Jan12 it went up 24¢. Wow! No wonder they publicized only the other changes.)

If over 13 oz, try instead Priority Mail flat rate boxes (any weight if you can fit it in).
Too big for the box? I prefer the brown UPS trucks from ups.com. You have to register.

Length plus girth over 108”? Go to Parcel Post calculator. No even Priority will take you.
Length plus girth over 130" Go to UPS like I told you -- Post Office won't take it.
2009: UPS max 165" length plus girth combined, or 108" max length alone. Bigger stuff can go UPS with a paid penalty, or with freight services.


First Class Flats padded envelopes and small pkgs
International and Postcards PRIORITY
ExpressMail $$$ and insurance MediaMail (bookrate)
Money Orders, Delivery Confirm Print your own zone chart Parcel Post



International Airmail

REVENUE = price x how many use the service.
Please make the service easier to use.

1 ounce Canada $0.85. Mexico $0.85. Rest of World (RoW) $1.05.

One ounce is a business envelope with 5 sheets of typical Xerox paper, or 1 sheet and six 4x6" photos. Leave out 1 sheet or 1 photo to be safe. "3.5" oz means you can't weigh more, but you pay for 4 oz.
Limits, all countries: value under $400, size under 6 1/8" x 11 1/2" x 1/4" thick
CANADA 1 oz $0.85 +32¢
2 oz $1.17
3 oz $1.49
3 1/2 $1.81

MEXICO 1 oz $0.85 +59¢
2 oz $1.44 The next ounce is 59¢ not 32¢? So,
3 oz $2.03 the force of gravity in Mexico is double Canada's?
3 1/2 $2.62

Rest of World 1 oz $1.05
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3 Check below see of you are in a cheap or costly country group.
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Cheaper Countries, Groups 6-9. Central and South America, Middle East, Africa,
central Asia, New Zealand, Philippines, Taiwan
1 oz $1.05 + 80¢/oz Unchanged 11Apr2011,
2 oz $1.85 up 22Jan2012 7¢ to start, 2¢ per increment
3 oz $2.65
3 1/2 $3.45

Costly Countries, Groups 3-5. European Union (France, Italy, places with castles and good food) ,
Russia & Turkey, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan,
Australia (host to a key ground station
in a famous spy satellite system),

1 oz $1.05 + 87¢/oz
2 oz $1.92
3 oz $2.79 Unchanged 11Apr2011,
3 1/2 $3.66 up 22Jan2012 7¢ to start, 3¢ per increment

Don't have lots of extra stuff to mail? Don't want to move up to Priority Flat Rate?

Then put your 4 ounces in a larger envelope. Service up to 64 oz was dropped on 12May08, but only for LETTERs. No letter service, sorry. Change the envelope, and .... it's "First Class Mail International LARGE ENVELOPE" service. For 1, 2, 3, 3 1/2 oz, expect to pay 14¢ to 53¢ more if you don't use a small envelope, and, for 4 oz and up, expect to be denied service entirely unless you use a large envelope (12" x 15" x 3/4" max).
Go to http://postcalc.usps.gov/ and click the large envelope, not the regular-sized one, to get the higher ounces.

This over 3.5 oz world is a world of 1st Class Mail Int'l LARGE ENVELOPEs and Priority Mail International. Large envelope service still goes up to 64 oz but costs $29.19 (costly countries), so flat rate Priority Mail Int'l at $16.95 is your choice for 2, 3, 4 lbs. Compared to cheaper Priority Flat Rate, this "Large Envelope" offers nothing but a larger envelope: 12 x 15 x 3/4" vs. the tight, thin Priority Envelope at 9 1/2" x 15" (that's the legal size version; same price as classic size in International service).

Logistics: You have to go to the Post Office for Large Envelope service because it's not available online, and you might as well go for your first Priority Int'l mailing too, to get customs forms and help filling them out. You probably couldn't have done your Priority mailing from home and there's no online discount for Priority Int'l anyway.
Not just large but lumpy too? Pay slightly more and go to Packages ("First Class Mail International Packages"). http://postcalc.usps.gov/

Why stop at Canada, Mexico, Cheap, and Costly? Why just 9 country groups? UN membership is pushing 200 countries. Bureaucrats, rally round the regulatory windfall. We're not here to make a convenient service in support of this great nation and its people. Let's make sure country #83 doesn't lose money -- we don't have the vision or the leadership to grasp that we are killing the whole service with needless complexity.
We are mediocre bureaucrats. We love it.

Postcard 32¢
4 ¼ x 6" max, 0.016” max (0.016" is "16 mills"; a typical business card is 12 mills)
Minimum thickness 7 mills; cheap glossy inkjet photo paper is 10 mills, so mail it.
Too big? Mail under letter rates for domestic first class letter.

Increased 2¢ 11May09
Increased 1¢ 17Apr11
Increased 3¢ 22Jan12

International Postcards 98¢
Canada: 85 cents, up on 17Apr11 from 75¢; up on 22Jan12 from 80¢
Mexico: 85 cents, up on 17Apr11 from 79¢, up on 22Jan12 from 80¢
RestOfWorld: $1.05 unchanged 17Apr11; up on 22Jan12 from 98¢

Aerograms / Air Letter Sheets are discontinued by the postal service of the United States. . Was $0.75 to any country, printed on the paper, no stamps. Write whatever you want, mail it to any address you want -- done. The good old days.
If you have old Aerograms, you can use them at the current First-Class "Regular" Letters rate by adding additional stamps. Or save them for eBay.

First Class Flats padded envelopes and small pkgs
International and Postcards PRIORITY
ExpressMail $$$ and insurance MediaMail (bookrate)
Money Orders, Delivery Confirm Print your own zone chart Parcel Post

Priority Mail

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Cox International wrote:
Our stats show just over 6,000 packages shipped for 2011 and we have only heard from 2 buyers that had to pay VAT (Value Added Tax) and both were commercial customers who bough in large quantities and did not mind the VAT as they get it back anyhow.

I just want to confirm that it is working very well to sweden. Delivery within a week every time, no VAT so far, and very low shipping cost. Great stuff!