[Mccoypottery-talk] shipping charges

[Rosemary Carlson]

Trust me on this. If you use Mailboxes, Etc, for example, for shipping, you
will make NO money on your sale! They simply aren't affordable.

Rosemary


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From: "acp" <acpearce@io.com>
To: <mccoypottery-talk@lists.mccoypottery.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 7:13 PM
Subject: [Mccoypottery-talk] shipping charges


>
> Thanks for the tip about the egg cartons.  I've been throwing them
> away, because they are not "recyclable".  Now, I have something
> I can do with them!!  :-)
>
>  I send a lot of things to relatives and friends and it usually costs me
> less than most people.  I have usually have a lot of small boxes saved,
> in my garage.  ;-)     I'm always getting packing material from people
> and I always use the cheapest method to mail things.
>
> Now, if I had a business where I shipped glassware, regularly,
> I think it might be a good idea to take a few pieces down to
> the Mailboxes, Etc. and see how much they charge to pack
> AND ship it and use that amount.  Then, I'd just let them do
> it for me.   Maybe that is what those sellers who have exorbitant
> shipping costs do???
> acp
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>
> Betty Nelson wrote:
>
> >The shipping charges are outrageous!!  However how long has it been since
you packed and shipped anything.  I about dropped my teeth when a present I
sent my sis came to $15.00 just to make sure it was packed well enough to go
on a 600 mile trip.  By the way, I seldom get any thing I ship broken, and
when I am listing on Ebay I have shipped a bunch. I found out several years
ago that one of the BEST, totally free if you get your friends to save them
for you, packing aid is an egg carton.  The side where the eggs are packed
especially withstands more psi than any of your little balloons of air or
most of your 'peanuts' will squash flat before an egg carton will budge an
inch.  I have shipped many items packed in a light weight box like a cereal
> >box and packed in a larger box with the cereal box sitting on an egg
carton and one on each end and one on top.  Weighs almost nothing and I have
never had a thing get broken if I used my egg cartons.  Not even in shipping
to my son in Europe.
> >Betty in Iowa
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