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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: ephedrabb on January 21, 2013, 05:01 am
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Wondered if people ordered all the mailing supplies and dropped off the packages to mailboxes/ Drop off boxes or if you go into the post office to send out. I knwo you can weigh the package and pay online and print your own label and drop off at a drop off location. i would be kind of scared to go into a post office and try to mail off? Any advice?
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Most order shipped with normal letters and dropped in a mail box, anything that needs to be shipped with tracking/different packaging will pay someone else to go drop it off.
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Please usually buy stamps and ship it out, being at the post office with heat isnt a good idea
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Staaaamps :o
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So would it be safe to have usps drop off the free priority/express shipping supplies then buy my own stamps? And I assume i need to get a scale and make sure I put the exact if nto9 extra postage so ti doesn't come back? Also, what do I put as the return address?
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this forum kinda sucks now. I cant reply to my own vendor review thread!
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What does that have to do with my question? 0.o
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So would it be safe to have usps drop off the free priority/express shipping supplies then buy my own stamps? And I assume i need to get a scale and make sure I put the exact if nto9 extra postage so ti doesn't come back? Also, what do I put as the return address?
find a real return address that is not your own. even a business...that way it is not cross referenced although it would have to get snagged for that to happen and be too late.
The Australian police said they identify possible packages because they are almost always hand written...so printing labels on a computer would be a start. before SR I have used fedex and had no problems doing overnight. If you are doing post buying a scale like you said sounds best, than use proper postage and drop in box. Use gloves while handling stamps and envelope so that no fingerprints are present on envelope or items inside (containers).
I know some people do not want to pay for overnight shipping but I prefer doing things as fast as possible...if I drop something at 4pm for 10am arrival next day they have to hustle just to get it accross the country, no time to search it. unless you packaged it so poorly dogs smell...but what I am saying is the scrutiny and examining time is very limited in overnight packages as the courrier company has so little time to get it somewhere the feds have very little time if any to grab stuff, and they usually are finding the 100lb pot packages not the lil ones
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What does that have to do with my question? 0.o
It doesn't. He just wants to bump his post count to get out. Dunno why he feels the need to make threads and post in actual threads, though. We already have like 10 spam only threads
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Mailbox usually.
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Going to the post office is a bad idea. They have cameras in the stores and on the parking lot. If your driving your own vehicle, they could easily get your plate number and find out who you are, and where you live in 5 minutes. Don't do it.
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yeah i try to stay out of post office if needed i just send someone else in