Increase Your eBay Shipping DSR’s with Endica 1st Class Stealth
We have been doing mostly first class mail for many years on eBay. We have used the Endicia product to print our lables as well. But last year when the USPS made all its changes, one of the things that changed was the ability to use "stealth" postage to hide the cost of shipping. Sure you could still do it by adding 18 cents and using delivery confirmation, but that can be costly when you are doing 100′s a day! So the stelth postage was sorley missed. And then the second wammy was the implementation of DSR for shipping fees in eBay!
OMG, that just sucked, because what it cost to ship and handle a product is NOT the price of a stamp! Although, trying to communicate that to an unweilding buyer is nearly impossible. So a first class package that has postage that is not inline with the fees on that stamp caused us some serious headaches with eBay customers.
For some reason, people think that shipping is the price of a stamp. They do not take into account the cost associated with product handling which includes; labor for packing, materials, printing, pulling, sorting, storing, heating and cooling the wearhouse, inventory managment….must I continue? Look there is so much more to packing a product than just a stamp and YES it is very unfortunate that eBay and eBayers just simply don’t get it. But I do have something that can ease your pain. Check out this quick video if you are using Endicia to ship First Class Flats via the United States Post Office (USPS), it will save you some headaches and posibly increase your shipping DSR’s!
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Nice to see the USA catching up with the UK
Here, with Royal Mail, volume business users can have a PPI account (PPI = Postage Paid Impression) which is basically a self printed label or rubber stamp applied to packages, it indicates the postage level (1st or 2nd class) and your PPI number only – no postage value is shown at all.
The price the business user pays is an ‘average’ – if you send 100 parcels in one batch, and the total weight of those 100 parcels is 50lbs – then the average weight is 8ozs, and it is the price for an 8oz parcel you are charged x 100 of course. Clever users of a PPI account will always ensure (where possible) ‘the batch’ contains numerous lightweight items to bring the average weight down (and cost)