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Post by fernwood on Feb 25, 2020 6:24:33 GMT -5
Sometimes I wish the USPS offered an XSFRB.
I usually end up shipping small quantities in a SFRB. Use lots of packing materials.
By the time I had paid for postage and insurance, it cost more to ship items in a smaller box than a SFRB.
This was for a few pieces of jewelry or a few cabs.
How do others ship smaller quantities of items?
I prefer to use a box vs a padded envelope, as it provides more protection.
Thanks.
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Post by MsAli on Feb 25, 2020 6:42:45 GMT -5
I use a padded envelope
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Post by toiv0 on Feb 25, 2020 8:00:20 GMT -5
I like the flat rate padded envelope. The Sfrb will fit into the flat rate padded envelope. If I am shipping a few things I try to fill the box with things laying around.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Feb 25, 2020 8:21:41 GMT -5
If the items are small, a small box, like a jewelry box and a padded envelope.
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Feb 25, 2020 8:39:59 GMT -5
I have shipped hundreds of cabs and pendants in 4x6 bubble envelopes. I sandwich the pendant or cab in between two pieces of cardboard then slide that into the envelope. I put 6 stamps on them. I only do that for single pendants and single cabs. Any purchases of 2 or more items go into a SFRB. I add the free USPS tracking stickers to the envelopes but I gamble by not getting insurance. If a single pendant is sold for over $75 I step up and go SFRB to just to get it insured. So far with 500 sales on etsy I have 100 percent feedback and have never had an issue with shipping.
I have cabs and even some groove wraps that are in the $20 range so charging $8 for a SFRB is just crazy expensive. The envelope with stamps are about $3.50.
Chuck
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Post by rockjunquie on Feb 25, 2020 9:19:19 GMT -5
For jewelry, I ship in a jewelry box in a bubble envelope. For cabs, I roll the cabs in bubble wrap and ship in an envelope, too. I do free first class shipping. I think it's abt 3.00 for up to 4 ozs. I use etsy shipping, Paypal shipping or pirate ship for international ( the best price ). I use the "tuff" bubble wrap envelope. It's a little more, but more durable.
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Post by Fossilman on Feb 25, 2020 10:45:30 GMT -5
Yuppers jewelry boxes and or cardboard cut to fit material and bubble wrapped envelopes...
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Post by stardiamond on Feb 25, 2020 11:32:51 GMT -5
Jewelry boxes and padded envelopes for cabs. Padded envelopes and a lot of bubble wrap for everything else. I never shipped much before I started selling and preferred FRB. I ship everything now first class with tracking.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2020 12:12:20 GMT -5
Cut stones and jewelry I ship in a small jewelry gift box or gem jar (wrapped in padding) and give the choice between FC padded envelope and SFR box. The little gift boxes sometimes don't make it through without being bent or slightly crushed, but the contents get there ok.
Slabs and mineral specimens go FRB - I agree with the need to ship in a box for those items (I've received enough broken pieces of those myself, and had to refund on similar shipped in padded envelopes, to bother with the cost of boxes, time weighing and measuring the box to figure the postage, plus risk the headache of something not arriving intact to go back to envelopes for those).
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Post by broseph82 on Feb 28, 2020 21:16:56 GMT -5
I bubble wrap my piece, add into a jewelry box, put jewelry box into a usps bubble mailer and add that to either another bubbler mailer or a sfrb you’ll be golden!
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