The shipping, ground advantage which includes tracking, is getting SO expensive especially on lower priced items. Example: sold an item for $12.99 and shipping was $6.24. It weighed, packed securely, 6 ounces! I'm afraid we will lose customers when the cost to get the item is HALF the cost of the item itself. And what about those items which really are only worth $5 - $6? How can we ever sell them? I guess offering FREE shipping and either raising the price a few dollars or just absorbing the po...

When postal prices go up the only thing you can do is change the way that you sell and the best way to compensate a buyer for a higher shipping rate is to bundle items together to make the shipping cost worthwhile. For example, instead of selling just one utensil, I am getting ahead of the proposed upcoming increase and have begun to group pieces together to make the purchase more worthwhile to a buyer. This is really going to affect items that are usually under $10. The be...

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