@txthrift54 wrote:
Hello! I’ve been selling on eBay for about 3 months. I almost always ship via USPS ground advantage and have never had any issues until today. Today my local post office employee stated that the box dimensions are required to be printed on the shipping label. She would not accept the label that I printed after purchasing through eBay. Has anyone else had this happen? Is there a solution or trick to printing the dimensions that maybe I missed?? Thanks!!
I just printed a bunch of labels and none of them show a dimension EXCEPT on those packages that are priced as cubic pricing. And even there the dimension is a rounded off figure. The box at 7x7x6 is actually .17 cubic feet, but the label shows .20.
As an aside, I once had a clerk try to refuse to accept a first class international package and she measured it as length plus girth. Now I am sure most of you know that is correct for internal priority but first class is length plus width plus height. She refused the packager AND refused to consider that she was doing it wrong. Fortunately I am well known at my post office so I simply caught the eye of the next clerk over and asked her for help. Interestingly, Janet pointed out that I knew the regulation better than most. Problem solved.
The point being that counter clerks are NOT trained in online postage. Remember a few years back when they upped online first class to 15.9 ounces? These boards were filled with stories of clerks refusing the packages and trying to charge extra postage. Lack of training. Same thing here.
Ask for the post master.
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