New small flatrate shipping box from USPS

**jghilino** · 07-05-2013, 05:24 PM

cardboard a hot glue gun and a knife is all you need to make your own boxes, all of the flat rate boxes can be run as regular priority mail

i like the padded flat rate envelopes over the paper ones and the small flat rate boxes, $5.70 to ship

**JohnC4X4** · 07-05-2013, 06:31 PM

Originally Posted by jghilino

all of the flat rate boxes can be run as regular priority mail

Not True
If they say Flat Rate you have to pay the Flat Rate associated with that size box
If you pay less based on weight and are caught >> Postage for the difference between what you paid and what the flat rate is will be charged to the receiver as Postage due

**parrothead** · 07-05-2013, 07:12 PM

Originally Posted by JohnC4X4

Not True
If they say Flat Rate you have to pay the Flat Rate associated with that size box
If you pay less based on weight and are caught >> Postage for the difference between what you paid and what the flat rate is will be charged to the receiver as Postage due

Yes, this is because they are supplying the materials.

**jghilino** · 07-05-2013, 07:14 PM

Originally Posted by JohnC4X4

Not True
If they say Flat Rate you have to pay the Flat Rate associated with that size box
If you pay less based on weight and are caught >> Postage for the difference between what you paid and what the flat rate is will be charged to the receiver as Postage due

i have recieved a permanent waiver on the board game boxes from my local post office, some idiot ordered 20 cases of them and didnt pick them up, i told them id take them if i can run them as regular priority they said yes and i can run all other flat rate boxes as regular priority providing that they are weighed/metered

i was given permission from the manager, i have run over 100 boxes like this now and none have been returned or marked insufficient postage

**JohnC4X4** · 07-05-2013, 07:43 PM

Originally Posted by jghilino

i have recieved a permanent waiver on the board game boxes from my local post office, some idiot ordered 20 cases of them and didnt pick them up, i told them id take them if i can run them as regular priority they said yes and i can run all other flat rate boxes as regular priority providing that they are weighed/metered

The board game box's ship as Large Flat Rate
Nice of your local PO to do that for you
But I don't believe they have the authority to do that
What are your plans when the receiving Post office notices you paid for weight and bills the receiver for the postage due?

The regular Priority Mail rates are often cheaper than using the flat-rate packaging. USPS offers over a dozen non-flat-rate free Priority Mail boxes, too. To save money by using the LARGE FRB rather than Zone-based Priority Mail rates, you must be shipping more than:

3 pounds to Zone 8
4 pounds to Zone 7
5 pounds to Zone 6
6 pounds to Zone 5
12 pounds to Zone 3
17 (yes, Seventeen) pounds to Zone 1 or 2