Changes to calculated shipping

[cleanerbasement0]

Has anyone else noticed that recently, when shipping through eBay's click and ship, the calculated shipping costs they tell the buyer is exactly the same as I'm paying, right down to the penny and they're taking 10% of the amount they pay which means it's coming out of my pocket?  Do I need to start adding handling charges so I don't go in the hole when paying for postage??????

[buyselljack2016]

You don't need to, but if you do not roll it into the cost of the item, or do handling fees, as you have already stated, you are going to lose money

[partial*eclipse]

Nothing has changed.  ebay's shipping calculator  always charges the exact USPS postage cost.  The calculator is set by default to show the retail price, so sellers who ship through ebay will find that the buyer is paying more than the seller's cost for services that are discounted online such as Priority Mail and First Class packages.

However, there are other services for which eBay sellers do not get any discount.   Media Mail is one of those services. And also Parcel Select, which is the online equivalent of Retail Ground; both services used to be called Parcel Post.

So if you set  up your shipping calculator to figure Parcel Select, you will pay the same price that the buyer paid because Parcel Select is an online service.  It also happens to cost the same as Priority Mail (or just 5 cents more) for weights up to 18 pounds.  The only reason to offer Parcel Select for a package under 18 pounds is if it's over 1 cubic foot, because a large package will incur a "dimensional weight" for Zones 5 - 8 if you are shipping via Priority Mail but not via Parcel Select. Even in those cases, if you want a built-in handling fee, you should offer Retail Ground rather than Parcel Select.

In other words, the solution to your issue is to just offer Priority Mail in your listings, remove the Parcel Select option (except for packages over 1 cubic foot).  

[cleanerbasement0]

This can't be right.  I OFTEN seen that Parcel post is cheaper than Priority.  It seems to depend on the weight and the distance between the two zip codes.  I can find no other reason for it.  And for other reasons I can't figure out some times priorityi was cheaper than Parcel post.  All this has changed.  Now, of the 14 packages I just shipped, most had identical charges for Priority and Parcel post, and what they buyers paid was exact to the penny....which has NEVER happened before.

I don't think your answer is correct.  And even if it is only partly correct, how does eBay justify taking 10% of shipping charges that are correct to the penny with no padding from the seller?

[partial*eclipse]

When your listing shows both Parcel Select and Priority Mail, and if you have left the setting to the default (i.e., to show retail prices) then buyers will choose Parcel Select becuase the price shown is cheaper than the  price they see for Priority Mail (i.e., the retail price).  And that price which they pay for Parcel Select will be the same as what you are charged for an online label for Parcel Select or for Priority (or 5 cents less).

Here are the current USPS prices for Parcel Select and for regular online Priority Mail (Comercial Base rate). You can see these for yourself on pages 11 and 23  in  the official USPS rates publication, Notice 123.
http://pe.usps.com/cpim/ftp/manuals/dmm300/notice123.pdf