We are currently selling the items on the eBay, and eBay makes it very easy to mail a package. Any items being sold has a link saying "Ship this item". Simply click on that link, and the label is literary printed in few clicks. I need to know the weight and size of the box first. By entering the size it shows all the charges for different options of USPS shipping methods such as Express Mail, Priority Mail Flat Rate, Regular Priority Mail etc. They make it easy with only one click to pay the shipping cost which gets charged to the linked PayPal account right there. E-Bay allows you to print the label and even print a packing slip with a custom message in just few clicks.
One suggestion to anyone starting to sell items on eBay is to get all the different boxes available from the USPS prior to shipping the items. Office Max started to carry USPS boxes too which happened to be more convenient for me since there office hours are usually more extended than USPS offices if I am simply picking up boxes. You can also have USPS deliver the boxes online from USPS website, but that took about a week for it to arrive.
I noticed that based on the size of the material and destination, the charges can be optimized if you have boxes in hand. For instance, shipping to California was cheaper for me to use the Regional A Box (which is a kind of box available for free pick-up) rather than the regular Flat Rate Box. Both services get to the California destination on the same day, but it was $1 cheaper with Regional A Box. Without having the box in hand, I would not have noticed the differences or even know that the product can be fit in any of those boxes.
Now that we have shipped our first shipment, we have started to expend the items for selling. With the similar approach to what we have been doing, we have created Japanese Imported DS and Wii Games site. I will post more experience for this new area as I go along.
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