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dticorp · Joined: 19 Aug 2006 Posts: 1759

PayPal simplifies shipping and tracking

http://www.paypal.com

PayPal offers a free, convenient and easy way to take care of your shipping needs with a variety of helpful shipping tools - with no hidden fees.

After you receive a payment, click the Print Shipping Label button on your Account Overview or History page to access the shipping tools.
With PayPal Shipping You Can:

Create postage-paid shipping labels in just minutes

Calculate your shipping cost with the Shipping Calculator

Pay for shipping and insurance with your PayPal account, with no monthly fees or surcharges

Create and print a pre-filled packing slip, detailing what you are shipping to your buyer

Ship internationally with PayPal-provided Customs forms

Track and confirm the arrival of your shipments with delivery confirmation

Void your shipping label and get a refund for misprinted labels canceled within 24 hours

Print multiple U.S. Postal Service labels at once with MultiOrder Shipping

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Alex53 · Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 1

Any links to a place that shows you how all this works?

I am selling prints of my photographs, but would like the shipping to be calculated depending on the country I am delivering to...at least a fee for 'local', 'europe', 'rest of the world' or something.

I know I can accomplish this in 'dirtier' ways, ie the customer purchases the 'shipping fee' that applies to his country. But thats ugly and not user friendly, and will lose customers.

missprintsvintage · Joined: 18 Aug 2006 Posts: 917

Here's an update from personal experience which prompted conversationS with the manager of my Post Office.

DELIVERY CONFIRMATION

Many sellers buy postage online. I do not. I hand each parcel to a clerk, watch them scan it, and purchase postage.

These days(August, 2008) if you insure the item the Delivery confirmation is superfluous, although it does put money in the pockets of the USPS.

While the insurance is not trackable online INSURANCE can be tracked: a buyer contends they did not receive the item: THEN the USPS will track it. I am a small time seller and when I was busy shipped on average 40 items a month.

There are HUGE sellers(say, CD sellers) who ship mega amounts of parcels so the online postage caper works well for them. If a buyers contends they did not receive a parcel they may determine to refund. I'd assume their cost basis is fairly small.

I won! paid 7/13/08/my seller bot postage online with delivery confirmation. A RARE souvenir booklet from 1910(impossible to replace~ I've searched for 6 weeks). I assumed it was coming Media Rate since postage was $2.50.

The first week of August: NO item . I emailed seller who provided online tracking. Took the delivery confirm and date to my post office.

Postal Manager: ''Did you insure it?''
MP: ''Would YOU insure a $10.00 item for $1.70~and past that: there is a delivery confirm attached~ WHERE??? is my item?''

Here's the problem with ANY delivery confirmation, the tracking of which rarely shows up before the client has the parcel anyway.

(1) all the USPS has to do is scan the item into your TOWN. Not to your address.
In my case there are two post offices....town has 400,000 residents.

(2)those PP generated labels? I stand in line at the post office to ship and frequently see an orange USPS bin left unattended but filled with online postal labels. No one monitors the bin.. A person could walk up to it, put in two parcels and pull out one., Absolutely unsecured.

So the next time a buyer tells you that they did not receive their parcel it is possible that in fact they did not. ''My'" online delivery confirm record shows the item came to town 7/19/08. I do not have it. today is August 28, 2008.

USPS Manager: ''We may have sorted it to another post office box other than yours. You get a lot of parcels.''

I looked her right in the eye:''Oh, Swell! What precisely is the point of delivery confirm?"

USPS: ''We depend on our people to do their jobs well.''

After I stopped laughing I went to Wally's Bar & Grill and ordered a long TALL chimney glass of some lovely amber coloured liquid. With a twist.

And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is what happened to me. It is highly possible that your buyer never received their item. My seller and I are cool. The USPS fouled up everything. My seller was perfect and got 20 gold stars and a Positive from me. I have no book.