Go home and start over. Size 10 is normal 4. You're a corporation using metered mail? Not a corporation, tired? Congress gave away its power of oversight and let the Postal Service change rates by itself. This is the "Parcel" small pkg rate.

Don't buy insurance unless you have receipt or written proof of value. No longer available on-line to the American public. They need the money. Pitney-Bowes can print it for eBay Inc, but you and I have to stand in line at the Post Office. You must be a registered PayPal user allied with eBay, Inc. This page normally comes up only if you sold something on eBay and must ship it, so you would normally already be signed in to eBay. If the site sends you to a bad login page or can't get back to shipping after login, just log into PayPal on another browser tab, then go to the ShipNow address.

Browser cookies will keep you logged in, and all will run smoothly. You didn't sell on eBay, we don't know what you are sending. But all our parcels are subject to opening for postal inspection, so tell me again, What are you afraid of? Why should it be up to eBay, Inc. Our Constitution Sec 1, Art 8 promised a postal system to us, unlock it.

WHAT SERVICE IS THIS? Full service name is "1st Class Airmail Small Pkg". Avoid "parcel", you'll just confuse everybody. We send parcels by post, but not by Parcel Post. Parcel Post was abolished on 27 January and became "Standard Post".

Standard Post was abolished on 17 January and became "Retail Ground". And today 1st class is nearly entirely Air Mail.

When did I start this Web page? What ever made me think I could find the logic in all this, let alone explain it to anyone? If over 13 oz and going overseasyou want "First-Class Package International Service" good up to 4 lbs.

After that, try Priority Mail International's flat rate boxes limited to 20 lbs to most countries; see International section next. Posters rolled up maximum post office length: Global Express Guaranteed is only 46", Express Mail Intl.

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Take 2 inches off the max length for every inch looser than a 3 inch diameter roll-up. Thank you, dear P. And for Global Forever stamps in Leave out 1 sheet or 1 photo to be safe. Envelopes up to 15" x 12", weights up to 4 lb, not lumpy, not totally inflexible. We are going up to 4 pounds here, folks, so the infamous "quarter-inch rule" does not apply.

Instead, the warning is. USE BIG ENVELOPES FOR "FLATS": Fill the airplanes with big envelopes, that's what they want. HEAVIER THAN 4 LBS?

Priority international boxes take up to 20 lbs, cost a fortune, and require the Customs Form. Sketched in Priority section below.

This is the "Letter Post" group which embraces everything that is not "shipping"; namely, LCs Letters and Cards joined with AO "Air Mail -- Other". Skip all the Priority choices and click on a closed menu item labeled "First-Class Int'l Options" or "Other Services" to open it.

Hiding the choices most people need is not what a democratic government should do to its own people. Size limit is 1 cubic foot maximum, and no one dimension over 24 inches. Rolled up poster maximum: If you roll it up 1" wider diameter, take 2 inches off your length. You need a list of countries' zones to use this international packages chart. Zones 1 and 2 are always Canada and Mexico.

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Zone 4 is Turkey, Russia, and Eastern Europe. Zone 5 is Europe, east including Kosovo and Serbia. Zone 6 is what most people think of as Asia, including India and Pakistan, but not China, Japan, Korea. Zone 7 is Africa and some island nations. Zone 8 is the Middle East, Arab sheikdoms, Algeria. Internal foreign exchange hedging techniques 9 is remote island nations and our neighbors in this make big money mailing postcards, in both nearby Central America and throughout South America.

MAIL SOMETHING TO CHINA? These items' total cost is less than our postage. I put the eBay story on a separate page. Ebay collects the fees, we don't collect the postage. Don't tell me you need these nine zones to avoid losses. Get up and go collect a fare for the free ride from China. Some price history for First-Class Package International Service. Priority international flat-rate boxes make big money mailing postcards up to 20 lbs, cost a fortune, and require the Customs Form.

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The good old days -- simplicity. Two medium-size boxes are available: This page normally comes up only if you sold something on eBay and must ship it, stock market crash primary sources you would normally be signed in already.

Media Mail Rates -- BOOKS. You must be a registered PayPal user. I suggest logging in on the normal paypal. Specify USPS, not UPS.

After entering an address no address book facility, sorry you want to get to a page that asks you to specify a SERVICE TYPE. There you can select MEDIA MAIL. These charts work for Priority boxes that are not flat rate, and for Parcel Post. Parcel Post big boxes have the oversize dimensional weight penalty at ". Go to the zone chart, then the rate table, and you're done?

THE SPECIAL CASE OF PARCEL POST ZONES 1 THROUGH 4. Parcel post zones do not exist. You have to use Priority. Try the non-flat-rate kind of Priority; it is probably cheaper for local, zone shipments.

So why do we have zones if we can't use them? They are used, just not by you. Ground shipment is required for all stuff that knocks airplanes out of the sky, so we keep zones 1 thru 4 alive in the "Retail Ground" Parcel Post department for people who have no other choice but to use them.

If it weren't for dangerous materials shippers, we'd never send our trucks out on such local stops. I don't care how you route your trucks. Why can't you just take my money and deliver my box? No one at the USPS who drove the USPS forward would ever retire to a "second life" industry job at triple his former salary.

Wouldn't you like that kind of retirement? If we don't use zoneswhy not abolish them?

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Clarity of vision is a key part of the leadership we do not have. Just mail your silly box. Search terms to find this data on the Internet: Likely URL of current Price List: They transferred billions of drug dollars into the banking system. There is something charming about this tale of money laundering in today's corporate world. An unofficial site by Jerry Nelson. DMM, the Domestic Mail Manual. Go to "Quick Refs" at end of this long pdf doc; stay in "Retail" chapters, we don't qualify for cheap corporate rates.

On 10April, we had a "roll-back", but we didn't roll back to prices we ever had before. ABOUT THAT 70 LB WEIGHT LIMIT: Pouring the small box full of liquid lead gets you 29 lbs, so I'd say, for small boxes, 70 lbs shows an intelligence limit.

The medium-sized boxes can be about half-full of solid iron. I waste my time with these stupid calculations while everyone else makes money trading on the precious metals market. You need to go from destination Zip code to a postal zone, and then You need a chart of rates per pound for all those postal zones. Back to reality and 35 lbs of mail. Maybe next time ask if they offer a shredder option.