Any other cheaters here ... besides me?

[inhawaii]

When you're shipping out ebay orders, do you ever cheat on the weight?  The weight is just a fraction of a hair over 6 ounces, but you use 6 ounces?

[tdumonde2014]

Yes, if it's 6.1 or 6.2.

[nobody*s_perfect]

I would never dream of doing such a thing. Partly  because I know that the postage cost is the same for 7 ounces as it is for 6.

[dhbookds]

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@nobody*s_perfect wrote:

I would never dream of doing such a thing. Partly  because I know that the postage cost is the same for 7 ounces as it is for 6.

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@nobody*s_perfect 

lol...........

[kensgiftshop]

Nope, I always go over a couple ounces just to make sure its covered.

[inhawaii]

Ken,  You are going to Heaven.

[fern*wood]

I'm a flap cutter.

[maylen37]

Me too lol

[a_c_green]

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@inhawaii wrote:

When you're shipping out ebay orders, do you ever cheat on the weight?  The weight is just a fraction of a hair over 6 ounces, but you use 6 ounces?

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I've long suspected that the USPS tends to look the other way if your package weighs in slightly over the breakpoint (e.g. 8.1 ounces for a paid 8.0 ounces), to account for the weight of the postage label that wasn't on the package when the package was weighed. I wouldn't want to rely on that, though. 

My little blue plastic USPS digital scale is a dead-on match for those at my local PO, so if it tells me 7.9 ounces, I'll buy an 8-ounce label, but if it tells me 8.0 ounces, I'll take the hit and buy a 9-ounce label. The label and tape add a tenth of an ounce every time (and in the case of my padded-envelope mailings, I really don't have any flaps to slice off to offset that.)

[lintbrush*]

Nope.  I don't cheat for a few pennies. 

And I don't ever add extra just in case.  

Nothing like shipping a 6 lb 15.95 oz box and getting an exact match at the PO for the weight.

[indiefeels1]

I always round up if it's >.50 and down if <.50. Never had an issue with postage.

[richard1rst]

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@inhawaii wrote:

When you're shipping out ebay orders, do you ever cheat on the weight?  The weight is just a fraction of a hair over 6 ounces, but you use 6 ounces?

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Actually “cheat” is not the word that comes to mind.

eBay’s bots would bleep the simple word, but in hoity-toity language it would be an “abysmal lack of knowledge in the way things work”.

5, 6, 7 and 8 ounces all cost exactly the same. So why would anyone worry about 6.1? There is nothing to be saved by “cheating” it to 6 ounces or trimming the flaps. Just mark it 8 ounces and move on.

[lja440]

NOPE !

If it is really close and it is safe for the item to do so I will trim the inside flaps but NO I will NOT cheat on postage.

[lja440]

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@indiefeels1 wrote:

I always round up if it's >.50 and down if <.50. Never had an issue with postage.

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All Postage is "up to but not over" 

Rounding down is cheating on postage AKA stealing.

[mkaczorsee]

The postage for a 6 ounce pkg is the same as a 7 or 8 ounce pkg. 

No need to try to cheat the system.