posted on May 15, 2001 08:07:04 PM
What's the most money you have spent at the post office on postage at one time? This past week I wrote out a check to the USPS for $61.85 mailing my packages. Seeing as I am a very small time seller, that was my record... Pathetic, I know.
Then I got to thinking - I wonder how much the BIG sellers spend in one shot at the P.O. I'm curious, so let's hear it!!!
posted on May 15, 2001 08:19:20 PM
Last summer, I spent an average of $125.00 each trip. Once or twice it was somewhere around $200.00.
And I sell exclusively books, which cost about $2.00/each to ship. I'd stack big plastic bins full of packages on my handcart and haul 'em in -- it usually took at least two trips to get everything in from the car.
People in line behind me always gave me nasty looks, but the funny thing was that on average, I got in and out of the post office FASTER than someone with just one or two packages to mail.
Once someone made a really snide remark and cut in front of me in line -- much to my amusement, she was still arguing with the clerk when I left. I felt like going up to her and making an equally snide remark on my way out...
posted on May 15, 2001 08:33:57 PM
$245 ~ at Christmas! The lines are really long at my post office at times ~ people always make comments...........which is why I am grateful that my partner usually goes to the Post Office.........
posted on May 15, 2001 08:56:15 PM
>people always make comments...........
The *clerks* in the postoffice I use are STILL making comments about my $309.00 package. The lady next to me when I mailed it turned around when she heard the price and asked me "What the H@ll are you mailing?"
We normally spend about that much a MONTH on shipping charges.
I seem to remember you telling about that computer in another thread. Didn't you get reimbursed for the postage because they delivered it a couple of hours past the guaranteed time? Happy dance for you and the buyer!!
posted on May 16, 2001 03:58:14 AM
My sister's in-laws spent the most on sending a single package. My nephew was in a serious car accident in Ireland six months ago. On a Sat. morning, my sister called them - the surgeons would be operating within a day or so and she needed pictures of his face so they would have something to go by (he had extensive facial injuries). Now, they're wonderful people but not particularly computer literate. They rushed around, gathered all the pictures of him they had, and had Fed. Ex. pick up the package around 4:00 PM here with guaranteed delivery by 12:00 noon Sunday Irish time(which is 5 or 6 hours ahead of us). The total fee was $612.00.
Needless to say, that evening (Sat.) they called me to tell me about this. I have a digital camera. Quickly gathered up the pictures I had and e-mailed them. Obviously they were there almost immediately.
Oh yes, Fed Ex lost track of the package. Didn't arrive until very late Monday evening (too late for the surgeons). They didn't have to pay.
posted on May 16, 2001 04:07:01 AM
mcbrunnhilde:
> Didn't you get reimbursed for the postage because they delivered it a couple of hours past the guaranteed time? Happy dance for you and the buyer!!
Yes. It took about 3 weeks for the paperwork to go thru, but I got refunded, and then refunded the buyer.
Pay that much to mail something, and it gets there late, darn toot'n I put in for a refund.
posted on May 16, 2001 07:31:30 AMRima, I love when that happens. Reminds me of the time some guy turned to flip me off in traffic and proceeded smash into the car in front of him.
I don't spend a lot at the post office because I don't ship a lot because I don't sell a lot. The most I'll pay in any given trip is around $20. But it's no matter to me, really, since it's my customers' money.
[ edited by marble on May 16, 2001 07:32 AM ]
posted on May 16, 2001 07:41:18 AM
My max was about $70 in one visit, but I am a small-time seller. Still, I do get nasty looks from the people behind me when I bring in towering stacks of packages. Despite the fact that I usually get my business at the counter done in less time than it takes a person unfamiliar with postal procedures to send one package. Heck, sometimes I've been in and out (through a long line) in less time than it takes some people to submit a change of address form.
posted on May 16, 2001 08:32:17 AM
I think my biggest was only about $30-$35, all going priority with insurance and DC, but then I don't usually have many packages at once - I go almost every day to the PO with the previous days packages. I used to go once a week, but my volume has increased so much, I'm now going at least 3 times a week, sometimes more.
posted on May 16, 2001 10:41:31 AM
One time I was heading intot he post office with about 10 packages (all small ones) and some older lady was trying to beat me, she only had 1 envelope. She kept upping her speed, and looking at me out of the side of her eyes, you know, looking but not looking, and walking faster & faster. (I would have let her go ahead of me anyway) She beat me in, and was still at her window when I walked out, whistling and swinging my empty laundry basket. My packages are always all set and ready. Insurance amts are written on the 'stamp spot' (our post office prints out the insurance forms). Waiting for my CC to clear takes longer than anything else.
I was a small time seller, the most I ever spend was in the $70 range.
You shoulda seen the looks I got at Christmas!!!!!
