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USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
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USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
Oct 12, 2012 12:55 PM
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http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2012/pr12_114.htm
Of course our cost is less than posted using eBay or PayPal shipping services.
So when you go to the PO for your holiday stamps buy some Forever staps & save a penny on each!
BBL: Blocked Bidder List... BIN: Buy It Now... BO: Best Offer... BR: Bid Retraction... DC: Delivery Confirmation
DSR: Detailed Seller Rating FB: Feedback FRB: Flat Rate Box FVF: Final Value Fee IPR: Immediate Payment Required
NARU: Not A Registered User OP: Original Poster OT: Off Topic PM: Priority Mail.... PS: Power Seller....
SNAD: Significantly Not As Described...... TRS: Top Rated Seller...... UIA: Unpaid Item Assistant..... UID: Unpaid Item Dispute
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Re: USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
Oct 12, 2012 05:11 PM
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hondamedic wrote:
So when you go to the PO for your holiday stamps buy some Forever stamps & save a penny on each!
BETTER STOCK UP NOW!!! 
or you can buy them here and save more. 
i'll cost me a nickle more for international letters. 
hope FC doesn't go up,that'll cost me more.
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Re: USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
Oct 13, 2012 10:25 PM
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A little more, in depth, document on the proposed price & service changes~~~> PRC Document
Parcel Post (page 7, item F): Is being renamed Standard Post and the price is going up 21%.
Priority Mail International (page 8, item B): Is going up 15.1% overall. DC will be available for certain Priority Mail International Flat Rate Envelopes and Small Flat Rate Box offerings to select destinations.
First Class Mail International (page 9, item E): Is being renamed First Class Package International Service (FCPIS) and is going up 58.6%. DC will be available for FCPIS mailpieces meeting certain physical characteristics to select destinations.
I anticipate a sharp decline in international sales next year. I'm glad it's only about 10% of our business.
Price charts, for all the various services, start on page 14.
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Re: USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
Oct 14, 2012 07:11 AM
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Good morning alwaysabargain4u and welcome to The Part Timers Forum.
Thank-you for the update!
BBL: Blocked Bidder List... BIN: Buy It Now... BO: Best Offer... BR: Bid Retraction... DC: Delivery Confirmation
DSR: Detailed Seller Rating FB: Feedback FRB: Flat Rate Box FVF: Final Value Fee IPR: Immediate Payment Required
NARU: Not A Registered User OP: Original Poster OT: Off Topic PM: Priority Mail.... PS: Power Seller....
SNAD: Significantly Not As Described...... TRS: Top Rated Seller...... UIA: Unpaid Item Assistant..... UID: Unpaid Item Dispute
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Re: USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
Jan 2, 2013 02:44 PM
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I agree that international shopping may come to a halt. I sell about 5 or 6 items a month international. That doesn't seem like a lot, but normally these are higher priced items (usually over $50).
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Re: USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
Jan 2, 2013 06:30 PM
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Hey pocketchalker, welcome to The Part Timers Forum.
Got some Polish blood coursing through my veins, Lithuainian, Russian, Jewish and French too.
OK, ok... Heinz 57 varieties... So I'm an American!
BBL: Blocked Bidder List... BIN: Buy It Now... BO: Best Offer... BR: Bid Retraction... DC: Delivery Confirmation
DSR: Detailed Seller Rating FB: Feedback FRB: Flat Rate Box FVF: Final Value Fee IPR: Immediate Payment Required
NARU: Not A Registered User OP: Original Poster OT: Off Topic PM: Priority Mail.... PS: Power Seller....
SNAD: Significantly Not As Described...... TRS: Top Rated Seller...... UIA: Unpaid Item Assistant..... UID: Unpaid Item Dispute
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Re: USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
Jan 2, 2013 06:53 PM
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Thanks Honda-good information for sellers to know about
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Re: USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
Jan 2, 2013 09:45 PM
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Throw in a tracking number and it jumps again.
So maybe don't use tracking.
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Re: USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
Jan 2, 2013 09:49 PM
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janewt-1 wrote:
Throw in a tracking number and it jumps again.
So maybe don't use tracking.
Hahaaaa! AKA don't sell here if you can afford a profit margin 
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Re: USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
Jan 2, 2013 10:13 PM
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Selling items that make you a profit is always a good idea.
Tracking all international sales is quite often a silly idea though.
Pocketchalker sells lowish priced items (under $20 mostly) that appeal to a specific segment of the sports community so probably a reasonably honest group of buyers. That's a similar market to mine although my stuff tends to run a little more expensive. I don't use any sort of tracking since I have very few losses so it would be mostly throwing money away.
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Re: USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
Jan 2, 2013 10:34 PM
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Newt...todays eBay is necessary to PROVE all items meet their destination. However if the OP was a TRS the only hope without using DC on all parcels is GSP (Global Shipping Program)...otherwise international sales are getting slimmer by the daily policy changes.
I have thrown money away to Australia & Canada...but as always, I can afford to lose it as the saying goes.
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Re: USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
Jan 3, 2013 05:28 AM
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hondametic,
Six months before the USPS announce that the postal rates are going to be raised, they brokered a deal with the company that sends you all the junk mail that you get. The USPS gave this company arate reduction some were between 20% to 50% of what they were paying the USPS.
So what I'm saying is that if they can give this company a big rate reduction why did they need to raise rates on the rest of the service that they provide.
The USPS needs to show the people the company books the really shows what they are making not the fake book that they show so that they say they need these rate increases.
Yes I'm saying that the USPS is crooked.
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Re: USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
Jan 4, 2013 12:49 PM
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The one (1) ounce international rate for a package will be $6.55, my normal international order contains 20 items so is generally 3 ounces. ebay will charge a FVF on the actual shipping amount divided by 20.
With my calculations for a 3 ounce package to Norway I would need to charge the buyer $9.89 shipping to break even. 45% of my business is international so I guess thanks to USPS greed my business will be reduced by 45%.
Cass
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Re: USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
Jan 10, 2013 10:28 PM
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These are the new Rate charts.
http://www.prc.gov/Docs/85/85329/Notice%20CP2013-3.pdf
Has anyone figured out what are the new Parcel Post AKA "Standard Post" rates? There are a lot of charts but none are labeled RETAIL Standard Post rates. Is it the rate chart beginning on page 89? Or is it one of the other charts? 
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Re: USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
Jan 10, 2013 11:26 PM
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Never mind I think I found the new Parcel Post rates on page 82. They mis-filed and put under the caption of First Class packages.
But now I am not sure which chart is the Retail First Class parcel? They have a First Class "Commercial Base" chart on page 81 but I do not see a Retail First Class chart. Do you?
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Re: USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
Jan 10, 2013 11:26 PM
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mintrobmint wrote:
Newt...todays eBay is necessary to PROVE all items meet their destination.
That hasn't been my experience. I ship FCI almost all of the time and in the rare case where a buyer says the package didn't arrive, I apologize, refund, and ask them to pay again when it arrives.
This happens in less than 1 of 100 packages and at least half the people I refund do pay when the package gets there.
If you look at my newer listings, you will notice that I don't have any exclusions. Some of the older GTC listings do have excluded countries (Nigeria mostly but it occurred to me that I've never had a Nigerian buyer so I got rid of even that one) and I've been too lazy to change them.
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Re: USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
Jan 10, 2013 11:31 PM
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I just noticed my last feedback from the 10th - for a package I sent to Australia via FCI on the 5th. The item is actually listed on the OZ site and sales have been good & problem free.
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Re: USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
Jan 18, 2013 12:18 PM
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janewt-1 wrote:
mintrobmint wrote:
Newt...todays eBay is necessary to PROVE all items meet their destination.
This happens in less than 1 of 100 packages and at least half the people I refund do pay when the package gets there.
... Your international sales experience may differ.> http://forums.ebay.com/db2/topic/International-Trading/Package-No-Shows/5100128949
5fishn5 wrote:
Is anyone else having problems with international buyers saying that they never received their package? I don't know what is happening here, but in the last 6 weeks, it has happened 6 times, and in my first 8 1/2 years selling online, it never happened once. Paypal instantly takes our money, even though I show a tracking number and proof of shipment. I am frustrated beyond belief!!!
BBL: Blocked Bidder List... BIN: Buy It Now... BO: Best Offer... BR: Bid Retraction... DC: Delivery Confirmation
DSR: Detailed Seller Rating FB: Feedback FRB: Flat Rate Box FVF: Final Value Fee IPR: Immediate Payment Required
NARU: Not A Registered User OP: Original Poster OT: Off Topic PM: Priority Mail.... PS: Power Seller....
SNAD: Significantly Not As Described...... TRS: Top Rated Seller...... UIA: Unpaid Item Assistant..... UID: Unpaid Item Dispute
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Re: USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
Jan 28, 2013 12:12 PM
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READ this!!!!!!! i also noticed that shipping a 5oz shirt to canada went up from $3 to $7.70 (on ebay)
HOWEVER this is ONLY on Ebay...you can still ship a 5oz shirt through stamps.com for $2.85 and keep your shipping costs low for international buyers. Not sure why ebay is hiking up the fee if you want to print from their service!!!????
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Re: USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
Jan 28, 2013 12:21 PM
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I do not believe that ebay hikes up the usps prices. I think you are not reading something correctly.
The one thing that is the most upsetting is that 1st Class International is restricted to 1lb. Everything over that has to go Priority.
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Re: USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
Jan 28, 2013 01:04 PM
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I don't know where you got this info. I just called stamps.com.
I compared two destinations that I am about to ship to today U.K and Canada.
The prices Stamps.com representative gave me are exactly the same prices that I got
when shipping through eBay.
Another step in losing to Chinese sellers on eBay... 
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Re: USPS Price Increases January 27, 2013
Jan 28, 2013 01:55 PM
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sherlocksgallery wrote:
..... They have a First Class "Commercial Base" chart on page 81 but I do not see a Retail First Class chart. Do you?
It's here, you have to download it and open it in excel.
https://www.usps.com/ship/first-class.htm
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