I just sold a microphone on ebay and was wondering if I absolutely have to ship it in a USPS box. Does the box have to be certified? The guy I bought the mic used from sent it in a UPS box. I cannot reuse this and just tape the paid-for and printed postage on it, right?

I basically need a 15x12x10 box, but I’m not sure if USPS Priority International has Flat Rate boxes this size.

It has a weight scale, but nort sure if you can ship boxes with it. How would you tell it priority vs first class? Can you do delivery confirmation or would you have to print your label first and then take it to the post office?

You have a postage machine. Say you print a stamp out of the prepaid postage machine for .00. You send that to person Sue from person John. On the account for the meter, is it recorded that it was sent to Sue? Was it recorded that it was sent from John? Does it record the amount used in postage?

And if it doesn’t do this for regular pieces of mail sent domestically, does it do this for international parcels, or mail sent USPS priority?

Thank you, and I would very much appreciate cited sources.

I see you can print the shipping labels, and pay for the postage through Ebay, but how do you calculate the weight like the post office does? Then do you just leave it where the post man can see it? I just have small items that are usually under a pound and send them USPS Priority. Thanks
I have sold 100 items or more on Ebay this past year, but I want to know about avoiding running to the post office. Thanks

Every couple of weeks we get an international order that is over 13 ounces, so it forces us to make a trip to the post office (where there is usually a long line).

We have daily pickup, but they will not pickup any package over 13 ounces with stamps (it must have printed postage or it must be brought in person to the usps counter).

USPS.com doesn’t have online printing of first class mail (only priority and express). Paypal doesn’t have first class international. And the 3rd party sites like Stamps.com seem to require a hefty plan which doesn’t work for us considering we would only use their service once every couple of weeks.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

i’m an ebayer and i’m trying to print first class postage online but nowhere on usps will let me do this the only options are priority and express which are about 15-20$ i dont wan tthis i wan tto send it first class and pay the calculated shipping of 3-4$ for the item i’m shipping.