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USPS or FedEx Ground via EasyPost, whichever's cheaper on a given day for a given package. I just punched in the numbers and a 6x6" padded envelope weighing a h

by jdiff 3y ago

USPS or FedEx Ground via EasyPost, whichever's cheaper on a given day for a given package. I just punched in the numbers and a 6x6" padded envelope weighing a half a pound would cost us $4.12. I just shipped a 22x16x17" package weighing 34lbs for $21.65. And we're a small rural shirt shop, most people are ordering shirts for family reunions and sorts teams. Most days we don't ship anything, so we have very little volume.

tomcam 3y ago
First of all, I would love to hear how you ended up in that business. Do you silkscreen or make actual shirts or what? Second, is there some kind of website you have to determine the cheapest shipping that day? Thanks much!
- jdiff 3y ago
  Oh unfortunately there's no interesting tales in a rural area like this lol. I needed a job, stumbled on this listing, sent off an email, got told to swing by the shop some time. Most people here wear at least a little of everyone else's hats. I emulse and burn screens, weed out lots of vinyl, cut and grommet banners, help cover graphic design, and as far as actually making shirts and hats I'm mainly just on the heat presses with the vinyls and transfer films. And there is, sorta. While our shipping goes through EasyPost, we rarely interact directly with it. Instead our shop uses a web app called Printavo to manage orders. After feeding it the package details it interfaces with EasyPost (very helpfully autofilling the customer's details from the invoice) and displays all available shipping options from USPS, UPS, and FedEx along with prices for all of them. Sometimes the cheapest shipping varies box by box, but in my experience it's always either USPS Priority Mail or (more often) FedEx Ground. And never, ever anything UPS. Kinda confusingly, I've never seen any of that info on EasyPost itself, just Printavo's wrapper around it.
  - tomcam 3y ago
    Loved hearing about your day. Thank you. Clearly every day is different from the last.
Roark66 3y ago
Nice, I've used USPS a lot in the past buying vintage(very heavy) ham radio and electronics test equipment shipping from USA to Poland. The prices were really good. For really heavy stuff there are specialised "cheap" shipping services. Like Polonez on my route, no doubt others for other countries. Funny story, USPS lost one of my packages (containing a pretty rare device). I filled in the "lost property form" and I supplied lots of pictures, the serial number etc(from the ebay auction). 2 years later it arrives unexpectedly. :-D So, the morale of this story is: USPS lost package forms are a real thing and there is actually a chance they'll find it!

by jdiff 3y ago

tomcam 3y ago

First of all, I would love to hear how you ended up in that business. Do you silkscreen or make actual shirts or what? Second, is there some kind of website you have to determine the cheapest shipping that day? Thanks much!

jdiff 3y ago
Oh unfortunately there's no interesting tales in a rural area like this lol. I needed a job, stumbled on this listing, sent off an email, got told to swing by the shop some time. Most people here wear at least a little of everyone else's hats. I emulse and burn screens, weed out lots of vinyl, cut and grommet banners, help cover graphic design, and as far as actually making shirts and hats I'm mainly just on the heat presses with the vinyls and transfer films. And there is, sorta. While our shipping goes through EasyPost, we rarely interact directly with it. Instead our shop uses a web app called Printavo to manage orders. After feeding it the package details it interfaces with EasyPost (very helpfully autofilling the customer's details from the invoice) and displays all available shipping options from USPS, UPS, and FedEx along with prices for all of them. Sometimes the cheapest shipping varies box by box, but in my experience it's always either USPS Priority Mail or (more often) FedEx Ground. And never, ever anything UPS. Kinda confusingly, I've never seen any of that info on EasyPost itself, just Printavo's wrapper around it.
- tomcam 3y ago
  Loved hearing about your day. Thank you. Clearly every day is different from the last.

Roark66 3y ago

Nice, I've used USPS a lot in the past buying vintage(very heavy) ham radio and electronics test equipment shipping from USA to Poland. The prices were really good. For really heavy stuff there are specialised "cheap" shipping services. Like Polonez on my route, no doubt others for other countries. Funny story, USPS lost one of my packages (containing a pretty rare device). I filled in the "lost property form" and I supplied lots of pictures, the serial number etc(from the ebay auction). 2 years later it arrives unexpectedly. :-D So, the morale of this story is: USPS lost package forms are a real thing and there is actually a chance they'll find it!