ebay question: USPS shipping online and insurance added...

[Puffy2]

Ok, I have an ebay question. I've used the online shipping service with the post office (it is the service that you can use and have your fees automatically deducted from your pay pal account and your computer prints out a shipping label - it's great because the label is nice and neat, the postage amount is hidden, you get a discount on delivery confirmation and everything is all paid for before you get to the post office. )

BUT, you can't add insurance online, you have to purchase that extra at the post office.

Which SOUNDS easy, but today when I tried it the post office employee had problems - couldn't get it to ring up right , etc....

She was finally able to do it, but I'm wondering - is there an easier way? Should I just not use the shipping/label online service when I have to purchase insurance too?

Any suggestions?

 

[hulabird]

I regularly ship items that I make (florals) to a craft mall that sells for me and I use UPS. I can do everything online and insurance is free up to a certain dollar value (most of my boxes I insure for $150.00 and that is always free). My boxes are usually between 3-4 pounds each. For example last week I shipped 11 boxes of various sizes and weights ranging up to 5 pounds and my total was $98 (it included one oversized box that was abt 17.00 alone) to ship to Colorado, that included at home pickup. All I had to do was go to UPS and sign up for a free account, then you can schedule pickups and it will let you print the labels etc...plus they even give you FREE labels to print on using your ink jet printer, I have a stack of 200 free labels from them.

On their site there is a thing where you can calculate costs by putting in box measurements and weight.

Hope this helps. I really love it!