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Discussion => Shipping => Topic started by: BayAreaBudz on March 20, 2012, 11:06 pm
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Hey guys
I am looking to become a new vendor here so I decided to go to the post office to pick up some bubble mailer envelopes and first class forever stamps.
I got some green DCN stickers and went to ask the guy at the counter how they worked.
He told me that I should come back in when my packages were ready because he had to weigh the package and I had to pay for postage and the DCN sticker.
But dont I just put another stamp on the DCN sticker? I dont want to have to go back into the post office to deliver packages. I just want to be able to drop them off in one of the blue bins.
Also, how many stamps do I have to put on the envelope. I have a weigher at home so is there some conversion that tells me how many forever stamps I have to put on for certain weights?
Thanks fellow SR members.
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You can buy a scale and weigh the packages yourself and determine the postage that way.
I believe DCN costs 85 cents? Double check on USPS site.
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DCN is $0.75 unless your package is really big(I believe its like 13lbs if your using flat rate envelopes) and all you do is put the DCN sticker on your package, then place extra stamps equaling to or greater than the price of DCN ($0.75) right beside your other stamps, if you put stamps on different parts of the envelope it doesn't look as professional and the mail people may not see those stamps. Putting all the stamps beside each other work fine (Stamps are placed on the top right corner of an envelope by default)
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Hey thanks so much guys.
One question I have is that if I have a scale, how do I know how many stamps to put? Is there a link to some type of calculator that tells me how much postage to put?
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https://www.usps.com/calculateretailpostage/welcome.htm
Postage calculator.