Priority Flatrate boxes

[meemaw.1]

Can I use a flatrate box for regular Priority Mail if I pay appropriate weight and size for package and blackout the Flatrate markings? 

[daad_841494]

No

[1959stratocaster]

NO.

[candd205]

No, but you can order a variety of priority boxes of many different sizes for free from USPS.com   I just ordered some. They came in less than a week.

[mtgraves7984]

No, but... you can, of course, use any other box. Do you have anything available?

[pooh333piglet]

Order some free boxes on USPS with free delivery to your home. Then you have more sizes when needed. If you dont want that size or only want a few take the rest to the post office. They sometimes are taken within a few hours. I order in the 25 quantity but you can order 10 if I have that correct. 

[p.a.r.v.a.n.i]

No. If you use the boxes for anything other than Priority Mail Flat Rate, then you can get caught and get into trouble. This is because the boxes are provided for free by USPS, and are only intended to be used for Priority Flat-Rate Shipping.

[simba6]

No.  They will contact you in their words for the extra postage.   You can use any non USPS provided box  for priority mail.

[popblox]

If you just want a Priority shipping "box" that isn't necessarily Flat Rate only, Box 4, Box 7 and the Shoe Box are great.

https://store.usps.com/store/product/shipping-supplies/priority-mail-box-4-P_O_BOX4

https://store.usps.com/store/product/shipping-supplies/priority-mail-box-7-P_O_BOX7

https://store.usps.com/store/product/shipping-supplies/priority-mail-shoe-box-oshoebox-P_0_SHOEBOX

[spudster17]

I'll contradict everyone here. I've done it for years and have never had a problem. The main things is you have to blank out the barcode on the boxes. 

[bigdeals.etc]

No. That’d be no different from blacking out the word Priority and using it for first class and paying the appropriate first class postage price.

[lja440]

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@spudster17 wrote:

I'll contradict everyone here. I've done it for years and have never had a problem. The main things is you have to blank out the barcode on the boxes. 

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And people like you are the reason they are considering making them available  only as PRE-PAID. 

I have been with the Post Office since before the Flat Rate boxes came out. Marked up, reused, turned inside out, covered in paper, it doesn't matter if it is a flat rate mailer you have to pay the flat rate postage.

[gone_4_good]

If you cover the part that says flat rate and the bar codes 

otherwise no they will return it with postage due

[k9_online_store]

no

[pooh333piglet]

People here who post a lot dont want the truth. It can be done. You, spudster17, will be somewhat attacked. I commend you. Another post I replied to within last 2 months I said same thing. You can cut it, reconfigure, Frankenstein a priority flat rate and as long as it doesn't say flat rate its good to go. Good to know someone else knows and your post office and every post office who deals with this that it then becomes just a box. You pay what's due. Sometimes more, sometimes less. 

So no you cant use it as is. If changed then it's just a box. People cant believe it's just a box. Omg