How can I send a shipping label to buyer?

[vintagenew100]

I mailed an item to wrong person and am going to ask him to forward item on to correct buyer. Is it possible to purchase a label with correct buyer's address and send it (to incorrect buyer) so all they have to do is print it and place on pkg and mail?

[tarpedge]

http://paypal.com/shipnow

The return address doesn't matter, only the correct recipient's address.

Download the label as a PDF file, then email that file to your buyer's email address shown on the PayPal transaction Details page.

[berserkerplanet]

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The return address doesn't matter, only the correct recipient's address.

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In 10+ years I have yet to make this work. PayPal shipping requires the from address be an address added to to the PayPal account (can't just temporarily edit normal address for a one time shot)

Which I will not do. I don't want addresses not my own around the country attached to my PayPal account for them to use as my default someday when I'm not looking and the database has a hiccup.

So how does one create a zoned service shipping label (Priority Mail, etc) charged the correct amount when the from and to addresses are the same?

And same problem at USPS.com

[tarpedge]

Um, you indeed do want your own return address on the new label in case it needs to come back from the wrong buyer or the correct buyer.

And you would change the Origination ZIP Code™:to calculate the postage from the wrong buyer to the correct buyer.

[robot-hands]

Just have them open a SNAD case and input the right address' in the "to" field.

[hafoster]

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@robot-hands wrote:

Just have them open a SNAD case and input the right address' in the "to" field.

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Can you take us through the steps, one by one?

Step 1:

Step2:

Step 3:

[berserkerplanet]

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Um, you indeed do want your own return address on the new label in case it needs to come back from the wrong buyer or the correct buyer.

And you would change the Origination ZIP Code™:

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Derp? Doh! That could work. I knew that?

Thanks. This (to my knowlege) has never been clearly addressed in hundreds? of posts over the years where "use PayPal Shipnow" was the answer. Only been a potential issue for me a half dozen times over the last decade, but will make things easier going forward (hope to still not ever need to issue self generated return labels though)

As the eBay label flow, PayPal Shipping, and USPS.com DO have a provision to change the origination zip code, I assume that USPS has no official objection to a label having the same origin and destination address (because 9/11, terrorism, big brother, etc)?

Probably works in practice 99% of the time , but even if there is no official objection, there will always be a poorly trained, overzealous, or vindicitive PO clerk to refuse such a label at the counter or when scanning.

[tarpedge]

Sorry, don't understand.

Let's say the seller is in Atlanta, 

shipped to the wrong address in Boston,

but needs a label for the intended buyer in Chicago.

Please explain "label having the same origin and destination address" for Atlanta, Boston, and Chicago.

[berserkerplanet]

Start with simple case of providing a simple return label through PayPal for an item to be returned to me in Atlanta from buyer in Boston. That was mainly what I was referring to.

That PayPal label will have my Atlanta address as both the origin and destination address when I email it to the buyer. I can change the origin zipcode to the buyer's to get the correct shipping amount paid. Would USPS in Chicago balk at seeing a Atlanta return address on the label when it is dropped off?

Your scenario: Need to email the wrong buyer in Boston a label to send the item on to the correct buyer in Chicago. I can change the origin zip to that of the buyer in Boston, and can enter the Atlanta buyer's address as the destination, but that label is still going to have my Atlanta address on it as the return (sender) address when it it presented at the Boston PO.

So I guess the question is:

Does USPS frown on either a label with same destination and return address (the return label scenario), or labels with a sender address part way/halfway/all the way across the country from the accepting PO (the forwarding label scenario)?