re: USPS in disarray

Buckycheese:

Very few books are 1# or less. Average books are between 1 and 2#. , and many are just over 2#, which might as well be 3 (same cost to ship if 2#1oz as 3#). I also buy bookfolds (protective corrugated specifically for shipping books undamaged) and those used to be inexpensive, now they have quadrupled or more in the 25 years I’ve been doing this, and the shipping to get them to me has gone way up as well. All that means is that whatever used to be profitable no longer is in many cases unless you pass that expense along to the buyer. And they balk. I would, too, when the Amazons and Temus of the world offer free shipping. The solution is to sell items with higher profit margins, and that is easier said than done.

While I do feel that I am almost at the limit of what the market will bear for shipping costs, I have had very few misdelivered items.

Many years ago, one of my college years jobs was working part time at a post office in BR. I cased mail from very early in the mornings, until leaving for class. Many handwritten addresses were simply indecipherable, and I am sure folks were wondering why mail went astray!

Reminds me of the scene in Dances With Wolves where a settler lies dead on the plains, a crusty old geezer looks at the deceased, and remarks "folks back east wondering ‘why don’t he write?’ "

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Very few books are 1# or less. Average books are between 1 and 2#. , and many are just over 2#, which might as well be 3 (same cost to ship if 2#1oz as 3#).

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I bumped it up to 3 pounds and it's $5.61.

If someone is buying a book that weighs 2 pounds or more it would seem to be a coffee table book. Usually not a cheap book regardless at that size. If $8-10 shipping is too much the customers are not realistic.

And yes, I know unrealistic customers don't help your business.

eta-I know of a number of hobby shops that essentially use shipping as a profit center. $13 shipping even if it is a single HO scale freight car that costs $30. Or some parts that might only be $15.

Used Shipworks then we switched to ShipStation. Now this is back in 2016 but shipped on average about 1,000 items a day between Amazon, ebay, Rakuten, the website.

USPS constantly had damaged packages, they would get lost (you learn quick if a package is at a certain facility ah shite), and they only allow you to file 3 claims per day and it takes fricking forever.

Of course it only happens to the most insane customers wanting free shite.

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Could be a simple computer glitch. Rela

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I've had packages that USPS says is in Wisconsinn, and 10 min later it's in my mailbox in LA.

I;ve had USPS deliver packages a week before tracking says it did, and a week after tracking said it did.

The USPS tracking system has problems.

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USPS constantly had damaged packages,

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Watching the mailman toss $150 packages into the back of his rig is infuriating.

Especially when you know that is just the first time it's going to get thrown around on it's 1000 mile journey.

I have a few pics of packages that look like they got run over by a forklift.

Why do you give a shite? Oh, that’s right… you’re a fricking tool.

Finally got my Chips lunch box from 1979. I am going to be rocking with this lunchbox at oh wait school over, work done, ooh well. I might be able to rock it at the retirement home.

Take a close look at the USPS timeline going back to say, the 1950s. What changed?

And throw them away"


Client takes business card from his contact's desk and then throws it away? horseshite-if the client reaches for a business card it's because he wants to keep it. Business cards are still very much in play in today's business world.