I've been selling these CDs loose for a while now. I found out if I mail just the disk in a cardboard mailer without tracking it will be about 80 cents then I have to pay extra for non-machineable which bring the total to $1.27 if I mail it in person or $1.24 if I print the labels on Shipstation. There is no tracking and I have to just refund if the buyer claims INR. (This is a question for another day) So far I had to refund twice.
One of my local post offices the clerk won't take them and said 'pay first class package or else' Yesterday she said pay first class or go to another post office and not mine. So a complaint and 45 minutes on hold and finally reaching someone at 800-ask-usps I was informed I was right and the clerk was wrong. Today same problem different post office. She went as far to pull out this cardboard template thing and said 'for you to mail first class not not first class parcel it has to go though this hole without issues or get stuck'. She did it 3-4 times it went through the hole easy with no issues and again she said it will be a parcel. I said I do not understand it went though your template and still you want to charge me extra? She finally said something like 'I don't really care' and agreed to send it first class mail. The total came to $1.27 and she printed a $1.27 barcode stamp from the machine. So to be proactive it said I wanted to buy 10x stamps of $1.27 today the clerk said we do not have that denomination. I said give me loose stamps so I can mail 10 envelopes of $1.27 each. She had no idea how to do the math. I was there forever. The stamp denominations and number of stamps was all messed up and when I was ready to pay she said the total was $23.45. I said the cost should be no more than $12.70.
**Oh the reason I'm now buying postage in person as opposed to Shipstation is I signed up for LetterTrack. It give me some peace of mind that the items are in the buyers vicinity and they will have a harder time with INR. I signed up for 50 barcodes and will see how that works for me.
