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[jrichrds]

Originally posted by: leigh6When you print out a prepaid label with DC from the Post Office it shows up online as "The U.S. Postal Service was electronically notified by the shipper or shipping partner on "some date" to expect your package for mailing. Information, if available, is updated every evening. Please check again later."

If you send this package no information will show up until it is delivered. BUT, if you can get the post office to scan it in, again with a postage of $0.00, you now have a record that it was shipped. Online it will read something like: "Your package was accepted at "your post office location" and is in delivery mode, or whatever"

You will have a record that it was shipped in the form of a $0 USPS receipt with DC number, but online it will still not have the "your package was accepted" message that the "paid" DC numbers have.

BUT UNFORTUNATELY!!!!!!!!!!! It is now policy for the Post Office to NOT scan in prepaid packages. I repeat, it helps to have a friend there in order to get it scanned in.

I thought that was always their policy with the free DC numbers. But it seems to just come down to the USPS clerk you talk to...some will scan it if you ask, while others will refuse.

 

[jrichrds]

I've received in the mail Priority Mail box sizes that I've never been able to get myself at either the local USPS post office or from the USPS online supplies-ordering site (Like Box #13, which is similar to the flat-rate box in size but it's not flat-rate). I wonder if businesses get access to more box sizes than individuals. Some of these box sizes are much more practical (IMHO) than the ones they allow us to order online.

This is evident by the post office's relatively recent inclusion of "USPS Priority Mail" scrolled on the unprinted side of Priority Mail boxes.

I have Priority Mail boxes a few years old that already had the Priority Mail marking on the inside. But I noticed they started printing a light "Priority Mail" background on their adhesive address labels earlier this year. I guess before people could just cut off the Priority Mail portion and be left with a general-use adhesive address label.

 

[DaWhim]

any ways to get the priority tapes?

 

[regpfj]

one less reason to leave my house. :thumbsup: I am fully 2/3 of the way to "recluse."

 

[cooliodealio]

This is pointless. They've always been free.

 

[imported_DigiBoOTy]

Thanks OP! In for a few...my PO is real stingy with their boxes.

 

[itakey]

Agreed! More of a reason to open it or "get lost" in transit...

I'll pass

 

[Slikkster]

Originally posted by: ActiveX

I don't know if I want people to know I am shipping something for a transaction on ebay though.

the perfect box for someone to rip open to steal your goods, whatever happened to anonymity.

I see...so if you get a box delivered that doesn't say Ebay on it, no one will bother to open/steal it? Doesn't make sense. A box is a box. If someone wants to rip you off, why would they care whether it said Ebay or not?

Now, if the box said "De Beers" on it (and no, that's not "The Beers"), you might have a problem. But Ebay, where the last thing I had delivered was cheap dental picks? Come on...

 

[fr]

What annoys me is that the large cubish flat rate box is perfect for most things that I send. I couldn't get away with using a flat rate box for the regular PM rate even though I covered up all the "flat rate" markings.

 

[trinketsummoner]

Originally posted by: seanws

Originally posted by: leigh6
Just a note. The small square box is wonderful and tough to find at post offices. Great for shipping oem hard drives, optical drives, cpus, and memory. You can always tape over the "Ebay" part of the box.

i get the ones from the usps web site and pull athem apart, turn them inside out, and then re-tape/glue them. can use them for anything then.

You must be real proud of yourself stealing USPS shipping boxes :roll: Ive noticed the post office has started printing on the inside of the boxes too now thanks to morons like you.

 

[smut]

My dc at the post office always shows where the package has been accepted and where its at. If I print them off the internet it just tells the buyer that a package is PLANNING on being shipped. Not that it actually was.

 

[Pollock]

So, in what form exactly do the 25 boxes come to your house? If they weren't flattened, that would take up a ton of space.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: Pollock
So, in what form exactly do the 25 boxes come to your house? If they weren't flattened, that would take up a ton of space.

Flattened and have aplastic or fiberglass strap around it.
You can also order the tape, labels and have them delivered.