@chevymontecarlo88 wrote:
If over 1 pound, you may want to consider USPS small flat rate box or a USPS flat rate padded envelope that could fit quite a few if you are doing a bulk listing.
Assuming that they would even fit inside a small flat rate box there would almost no room for any packaging materials to protect the item. That box is also very weak and rather cumbersome to use.
A bubble mailer is like shipping your item inside a plastic shopping bag from the store that is lined with a single layer of bubble wrap. How is that going to protect you item when a box falls on it at a sorting center?
Your package will be traveling down high speed conveyer belts and will be dropped into a sorting bin onto other packages and have other packages fall on top if it. That will occur at each sorting center.
If you do use a bubble mailer then your item should first be placed inside a small box and then inside the bubble mailer.
You should familiarize yourself with Parcel Select Cubic and Priority Mail Cubic pricing from PirateShip.
Determine what size of box will best protect you item and what Cubic Tier its in to compare pricing.
There is also no reason to buy new boxes to send these out when many stores will give you boxes for free. Dollar Tree is a great place for small boxes - just ask if you can have them if you stop into the store and they are stocking shelves. Saves them the labor of having to take them outside to the cardboard dumpster and having to pay someone to haul them away.
