First Class Return Service Flat Rate Box

[camsbstore]

I recently received a cable I ordered with the wrong adapter. I initiated a return and printed the label. The initial package had a 4oz USPS First Class label, and the return label is USPS First Class Return Service. I've learned that I can put it on any package under 70lbs, but does that apply to Flat Rate packaging as well? I'd rather use Flat Rate boxes for this return because they have been sitting at my house for months with no use for them, but I also want to ship it correctly. Thanks for your help.

[mkaczorsee · Accepted solution]

If you want to use a flat rate box, you will need to purchase a new label for flat rate postage. 

I had a buyer who tried to do this and the package was returned to them. 

[kensgiftshop]

@camsbstore 

If you use a flat rate box, you'll have to pay the flat rate postage.

[stephenmorgan]

You can not put a First Class label on a Priority Box.

Reasons First Class Shipping is cheaper are, you do not get a free shipping container, you have to provide your own shipping container, you shipment does not come with any insurance, First Class is a slower service and you can only mail 1 pound or less (depending on how you purchase it, sometimes 13 ounces or less).

First Class would never be acceptable for a 70 pound package.

If you want to get rid of your extra boxes, can you advertise them locally for free or return them to the Post Office?

[camsbstore]

First Class Return Service is solely based on shipping speed. First Class shipping is different. I appreciate all the answers guys, I'll just use a leftover Amazon box and save the Flat Rate boxes for another time.

[stephenmorgan]

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@camsbstore wrote:

First Class Return Service is solely based on shipping speed. First Class shipping is different. I appreciate all the answers guys, I'll just use a leftover Amazon box and save the Flat Rate boxes for another time.

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I am sure you are correct.  I must to have been looking at the wrong section or old section of USPS Regulation's.  This is the part I was talking about.

https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Merchant-Returns-Application

[camsbstore]

Oh you may be right then. I had contacted eBay about it just to check and they said the 70 pound limit, however USPS still says under 1 pound on their website. I won't chance it - shipping it back in a light package

[ise710]

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@camsbstore wrote:

The initial package had a 4oz USPS First Class [Package] label,

and the return label is USPS First Class Return Service [label].

I've learned that I can put it on any package under 70lbs, but does that apply to Flat Rate packaging as well?

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Yes, any box is fine. It's been explained by the blues that when a buyer has to make a return, they are likely already inconvenienced, and a return label with no undue limits is helpful.

To that end, eBay pays the same flat rate, an average price, for each Return Service label scanned, whether it weighs 1 ounce or 70 pounds, and less than 108 inches on any plain, other, or USPS box.

[stephenmorgan]

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@ise710 wrote:

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@camsbstore wrote:

The initial package had a 4oz USPS First Class [Package] label,

and the return label is USPS First Class Return Service [label].

I've learned that I can put it on any package under 70lbs, but does that apply to Flat Rate packaging as well?

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Yes, any box is fine. It's been explained by the blues that when a buyer has to make a return, they are likely already inconvenienced, and a return label with no undue limits is helpful.

To that end, eBay pays the same flat rate, an average price, for each Return Service label scanned, whether it weighs 1 ounce or 70 pounds, and less than 108 inches on any plain, other, or USPS box.

So as long as the package is within USPS specifications, any return ships for the same rate?   That is interesting.  Do you know what this same rate is?  I have never had anyone request a return so I do not know what the rate would be.  It would be very useful to know the average fixed rate for any return by USPS.

Who is the Blues you mentioned?