Another informative post to remind everyone of the USPS rate increase. I quote from ecommercebytes (can you relate to the name? LOL):
“Online sellers are dealing with increases in shipping costs this year, with the impending January 17th rate hike from the US Postal Service especially worrisome as they contain some big percentage increases across some classes of shipping services.
Just some of the changes we noted in our early coverage included the [URL removed]
Priority Mail will see an almost 10% average rate increase.
Prices for Parcel Select Lightweight will increase by 23.5 percent.
First Class Package International Service rates will see an overall increase of 21.6%.
Click-N-Ship will offer only retail prices and will no longer offer Commercial Base discounted pricing.
Commercial Plus discounts are decreasing and will eventually be eliminated.
You can download a spreadsheet containing detailed rates from the USPS website (look in the left margin), but it’s not user friendly and is sure to baffle people who aren’t familiar with Excel."
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KathysCreations Reputation: 198 See KathysCreations' booth |
It is more than 10% on flat rate envelopes & BALLOON RATE FOR LARGE HEAVY ITEMS which I use for a lot of my items.Previous cost $5.05 now they are $6.45.Balloon rate for large items increased by $15.00 up..was $85.00 NOW it is $100.20
Priority Mail 2-Day™ Flat Rate Envelope More info about Priority Mail 2-Day™ Flat Rate Envelope
USPS-Produced [URL removed] 12-1/2″ × 9-1/2"
Thu, Jan 21
$6.45
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sewbuzyb Reputation: 116 See sewbuzyb's booth |
I’m not seeing any change in First Class parcels. Unless I’m missing something. I know Commerical First Class went up.
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Irene0526 Reputation: 572 See Irene0526's booth |
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Yeah, What a pain in the keester. Some of the prior increases I just let slide but this one is Pretty BIG so just spend the last 2 evenings updating ship costs on my items (individually as have not had good luck in the past with batch edit).
I feel that this higher shipping is really going to kill sales for some of us.
If there was anything good to be said about the latest change, it is that weight on First Class parcels NOW goes out to 16 oz (from 13 oz wgt limit) so that is still cheaper than 1 pound of Parcel or Priority. Of course First Class is not INSURED automatically at no charge like Priority mail is.
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Atomicdiner Reputation: 1902 See Atomicdiner's booth |
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I thought tracking was a given on first class. Last week my lady at my sub-station goofed and put my package in as envelope and received no tracking number. That was not good.
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daffs60 Reputation: 72 See daffs60's booth |
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Looks like the Post Office shafted the intermittent seller or mailer of packages.
They have eliminated the Regional Rate option and, as mentioned by O.P. and E-Commercebytes, any discount on Click N Ship, and now you have to find a Commercial Subscription service like Stamps.com, Endicia, etc.
Anyone use the ShippingEasy Starter Plan? I cannot find the page I saw last night that implied that you can’t manually enter your shipment info, meaning it requires you to interface your shop with their site. Anyone know??
I checked PayPal and see they still don’t have Regional Rate listed and they eliminated the ShipNow link saying it was an in-house tool that wasn’t really supposed to be used by customers.
If there isn’t any other ways to ship small, intermittent packages online, I hope the Post Office enjoys all the really small sellers (who don’t have a subscription service) lining up and giving them a piece of their mind while turning in their “now Retail packages”.
A bit harsh, but I am peeved by yet another assault on those struggling to make ends meet in this jobless economy.
“Edited 01/29/16: Regional rate priority mail available again on click n ship”
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rapidreader Reputation: 534 See rapidreader's booth |
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