posted on December 8, 2005 09:06:14 PM new
10:00 PM??? This sounds like a 2:AM'r type of situation to me. Get a good alarm clock and call these jerks in the wee hours of the morning. Remember, the sounder asleep they are when they answer, the weaker their response will be. If you catch 'em at just the right time, you get to do all the talking, they say nothing, then you hang up and leave them standing there with a confused and bewildered look on their face. If they're really out of it, ask 'em for their debit card number and PIN. Ya just might get lucky and have a VERY Merry Christmas
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on December 8, 2005 09:06:32 PM new
Actually, there is NO difference in delivery time or speed between first class mail and priority mail, just that one costs 60 cents, and the other $3.85 - Priority Mail is a HUGE profit center for the USPS, which is why they push it so much! I've even heard Ralph Nadar is taking them to task for not mentioning parcel post or other classes of mail. Fluffy is right, it is a huge scam, and the scam is on us!
posted on December 8, 2005 09:13:41 PM new
That's correct. First class and priority are exactly the same. You can get DC for first class if the envelope or package is thick enough. If not, just shove some toilet tissue inside (preferrably unused, unless the buyer is a real PITA) until the package is 1/4" thick.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on December 8, 2005 10:33:33 PM new
I work a part time job that I enjoy. I am trying to sell mostly in my E-Bay store and run very few auctions. What I'm selling now I can get away with that. I agree with Fad items,when their hot its great. So much of what I've sold on E-Bay in the last 6 years has been like that. I'm trying to find a product people just buy when they need it. I think what I'm selling now will do fine,so far so good.
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posted on December 8, 2005 11:42:27 PM new
I am going to get kneecapped for asking, but Fluff, if you have flat shipping that is ample to absorb, i.e. pay for, priority shipping with DC, then why bother with your own packaging and the hassle of slower, un-DC'd packages.
I am just curious. Packaging isn't a profit arena for me, I'd just as soon slap it in a priority package than futz around with my own inventory of bubble mailers etc.
The time/cost is a better trade off.
If you don't combine, you have enough "space" to afford the higher shipping cost, why not use it?
I don't want to get into a "shipping cost" thread, because it's endless and I don't see that it's wrong to charge a flat shipping and handling (because that's what "real" businesses do) but somehow it seems easier to just not worry about USPS's "profit center" and use the money people send for an item to be shipped, to be, shipped.
I don't think anyone is making profit off of shipping, at the upper levels they must be paying for time, staff, gas, etc.
posted on December 9, 2005 04:30:07 AM new
With Priority and First Class it makes a difference where the item is going. It took a First Class envelope almost one week to get from here (Ohio) to California while a Priority box took three days. If an item is going only a couple of states away, it will get there First Class as quickly as Priority. But, across the country is a different matter. I offer both options to my customers.
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
