Paypal Ship Now Changes

asuwishshop · Posts: 109

Paypal ship now has changed. They have a whole new template and it makes me so frustrated. You use to be able to put in the exact weight 1#3oz and measurements and get a specific price. Now it automatically assumes anything over the lb gets round up to the next. So an item that is 1#3 oz is 2 lbs and costs 8.36!! that is at least $2 higher.

I have tried going through the USPS online and it is the same. This means I will either have to change all of my listings and possibly lose customers because of the postage hike or find another way of printing online labels.

Please send me your suggestions. I'd love to find an accurate way to print labels at the correct cost and if possible use my pay pal funds. Thanks!

wtcollectibles · Posts: 2728

I just read about the new shipping page in another forum but haven't looked at it yet. The poster over there was mad because he likes to put all his postage on his credit card for the points and now it wants PP balance first, then bank account, and maybe then credit card. That didn't worry me since I want to use the PP balance anyhow--that's where the customer paid me to ship the item!

The USPS hasn't raised any rates, so I'm not understanding your other comment. If you are using Priority mail, that has always been by the pound and 1 lb 3 oz would be the same as 2 pounds for an ordinary package (not oversized or flat-rate box or anything special). Maybe I'll see what's changed when I use it this afternoon.

Edited to add - I may be wrong. When they did one of the last changes, I think they did make an in-between level, especially for the far-away zones. Or did I dream that? I use First Class more than anything. Anyhooo, I don't think USPS would stand for PayPal changing their postal rates!

jigsaw-puzzle-palooza · Posts: 822

asuwishshop · Posts: 109

First Class is not effected being that goes to the specific oz. It is Priority Mail that is impacted the most. You will see what I mean when you print your next label.

I have always done fixed shipping on ecrater and have not used the matrix. But now that they are not going to the oz it would be just as well to switch to the matrix.

The other thing is that the description use to read payment to USPS shipping. Now it reads ebay shipping.

wtcollectibles · Posts: 2728

asuwishshop · Posts: 109

Yes, the USPS website has been that way for a while that is why I have been using the old Paypal ship now link.

I just spoke to paypal and they said they are still working on fine tuning this and to please click the link to leave suggestions about this and any other problems you find.

I left my input. Please do the same. The more people that comment the more likely it will get changed.

Why pay extra. It should be to the oz not lb!!

RustyFarmall · Posts: 1300

The U.S.P.S site has changed a bit in that it now gives you the opportunity to pay with pay pal if you desire, but the pounds and ounces has not changed.

If your sold item was paid for using pay pal, and you want to use pay pal shipping but do not want the shipping charges to come out of your pay pal balance, simply transfer the balance to your bank before you purchase the shipping label. If you don't want to transfer the balance, then use the usps click-n-ship for your labels.

zickit · Posts: 21857

Priority mail is ALWAYS charged by the pound. If you are 1 ounce or 16 oz you pay for a pound.

RustyFarmall · Posts: 1300

elpereles · Posts: 3430

My principal shipping method is domestic Priority Mail. I created a table with all the weight from some of my items to have an idea of how much it weights. I don't loose my time writing and weighting the exact weight between scales for single items ship by Domestic Priority Mail, Parcel or Media Mail. Now if I use 1rst Class I need to worry about the specific weight.

bigtallmensclothing & wtcollectibles are correct. You paid for the pound limit. If you pass the limit even for 1oz you paid the next one.

For example in Priority or other service with pound scale:

1) An item weighting 1oz to 16oz (1lb) pays the fee as 1lb.

2) An item weighting 17oz or 1lb + 1oz pays the fee as 2lb. The range of the scale is 1lb +1oz to 2lb.

If you dont believe or you are confuse. My recommendation is just play some time with the USPS calculator.

USPS Postage Price Calculator
http://postcalc.usps.gov/

wtcollectibles · Posts: 2728

To follow up on what I posted above, we CAN now print First Class Int'l directly from PayPal! Yay! I'm sorry to those who are offended by the word eBay on there, but anything that will help to automate my Ecrater shop like my eBay store, I'm all for it. (I always cut that word eBay off anyhow and don't leave it on the label.) After they added that feature for my eBay orders, when I would get a UK order here, it just stunk that much worse to fill out that dumb green form.

cosmicray · Posts: 7286

MoonwishesStore · moderator Posts: 17389

The only difference with the prices on Priority mail is the packaging. A flat rate envelope is one price, the legal envelope is another, the box is another, etc. but they all go by 1-2-3 etc. pounds. There is no ounces involved whatsoever except for first class mail and that is only up to 13 oz. However if this was an international package they do change every 4 ounces, I think it is, over 1# up to 4# for an international first class mail. Priority internaional still goes by pounds.

elpereles · Posts: 3430

It must be a wonderful glitch. Laughing

Yes, both Domestic & International Priority are in pounds. The only thing I want to see is that USPS add the Domestic 1rst Class up to 4lb as the International 1rst Class.

thelivesandlovesofmaggiethecat · Posts: 10159

US first class mail increases every few ounces up to 13 ounces. After that even a hair over each pound and you pay the next pound in weight. That means if your package weighs 1 pound .001 ounces, you pay for 2 pounds. It has always been this way, at least since I've been old enough to mail packages.