Is it one page or four?

[iamalwaysright]

I haven't done Priority Mail International in like forever but I had to do one just now. I made it thru Pirateship and it's going to Australia. It only generated one page for the postage label. I recall when I last created one, it was 4 pages and you had to put them in that little PS Form 2976-E adhesive clear pouch. I recall 1 was for the carrier, 1 was for customs, 1 was for Sender Copy (me), and I can't remember what the 4th one was for.

Is this no longer the case since I only see a PDF for one page?

[kickin.assets]

Shipped to Australia a couple months ago and it was just the one label 😁

[richard1rst]

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@iamalwaysright wrote:

I haven't done Priority Mail International in like forever but I had to do one just now. I made it thru Pirateship and it's going to Australia. It only generated one page for the postage label. I recall when I last created one, it was 4 pages and you had to put them in that little PS Form 2976-E adhesive clear pouch. I recall 1 was for the carrier, 1 was for customs, 1 was for Sender Copy (me), and I can't remember what the 4th one was for.

Is this no longer the case since I only see a PDF for one page?

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Using Pirateship is different than eBay or the post office. They have a system called "Simple Export".  The label that you print is a USPS label addressed to their international terminal. Once it gets there they relabel it using Asendia (a joint venture of the Swiss and French postal systems) for the international leg. Whether it needs one or 4 pages is done at that point.

[wastingtime101]

When more copies are needed the system will auto-generate them.

https://support.pirateship.com/en/articles/2588027-how-many-copies-of-customs-forms-do-i-need-for-in...

[wastingtime101]

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@richard1rst wrote:

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Using Pirateship is different than eBay or the post office. They have a system called "Simple Export".  

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Sure, Asendia is an option on Pirate - but so is shipping direct with USPS. Sounds like OP is shipping direct with USPS Priority International.

[iamalwaysright]

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@kickin.assets wrote:

Shipped to Australia a couple months ago and it was just the one label 😁

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I ship to Australia all the time, just not using Priority Mail International. And the last time I did Priority International (over a year ago), the lower level postage like First Class only had one page but Priority Mail (and I think Express Mail) had four pages and a pouch.

Which shipping service did you use when you shipped to Australia?

[wastingtime101]

Last time I shipped to Australia with Priority International only 1 form was generated. I believe Australia is one of the exception countries.

As I mentioned above - Pirate and eBay will both auto-generate the number of forms required. If only one copy is printed, that's all you need.

[iamalwaysright]

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@richard1rst wrote:

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@iamalwaysright wrote:

I haven't done Priority Mail International in like forever but I had to do one just now. I made it thru Pirateship and it's going to Australia. It only generated one page for the postage label. I recall when I last created one, it was 4 pages and you had to put them in that little PS Form 2976-E adhesive clear pouch. I recall 1 was for the carrier, 1 was for customs, 1 was for Sender Copy (me), and I can't remember what the 4th one was for.

Is this no longer the case since I only see a PDF for one page?

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Using Pirateship is different than eBay or the post office. They have a system called "Simple Export".  The label that you print is a USPS label addressed to their international terminal. Once it gets there they relabel it using Asendia (a joint venture of the Swiss and French postal systems) for the international leg. Whether it needs one or 4 pages is done at that point.

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Are you referring to Pirateship Simple Export Rate? If so, I use that all the time too and the postage label that kicks out is one page domestic to their facility and gets re-labeled.

But this transaction I'm referring to in my OP, the buyer paid for Priority Mail International. It's going directly to Australia and doesn't get re-labeled (at least to my knowledge not until it touchdowns to Australia). 

Can you confirm that Priority International is only one page as well too?

[iamalwaysright]

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@wastingtime101 wrote:

Last time I shipped to Australia with Priority International only 1 form was generated. I believe Australia is one of the exception countries.

As I mentioned above - Pirate and eBay will both auto-generate the number of forms required. If only one copy is printed, that's all you need.

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Okay thanks. I'm concerned because of the obvious higher price and more money on the line here. As well as I'm not in the office and my employee is handling this. He's inexperienced in higher level international shipping. He's not the sharpest tool in the shed and I'm not there to oversee what he's doing with that shipment. I wasn't confident enough to bank on what he was saying that only one page printed out thinking he might have missed something.

[wastingtime101]

If only one page printed then you're fine.

If you have any hesitation and want to dummy-proof the shipment for that inexperienced employee, it's not going to hurt to print 2 extra copies and put them in a clear pouch.

But it's not needed.

[kickin.assets]

I remember sometime ago I shipped to Australia and it was several pages (believe at the time I used eBay labels, before EIS) but I don’t do a lot of international and can’t recall. This last sale just the one label, purchased through Pirateship. At the time, I also remember thinking, “shouldn’t there be more than one label”? The one label was nice.