Question about shipping

[fairpromise]

I have kind of a silly question regarding shipping costs outside of selling on Ebay and just generally pertaining to confusion with shipping. I sold a few items on FB and the potential buyers only provided their zip codes. I will be going to the post office on Saturday and need to know if I could just use the zip codes to determine the final shipping cost? These would be going out on Monday.. Will I need their full address to get this final shipping cost? Thank you

[richard1rst]

The ZIP code, along with the package size and weight, will give you a shipping cost. You can get the info at www.usps.com without having to go to the post office.

BUT if you have already sold it, and presumably they have paid for it, how come you don't have their address?

[fairpromise]

They didn't pay as of yet because I don't know how much shipping is and I looked everywhere on the site to try and find the shipping cost and a cheaper method of sending these, but the only methods that I can see is Priority or express, cheaper shipping doesn't let me get the cost online and some of the items are pretty tiny. I'm obviously not good with shipping estimates or using the site. 😞 Apologies..

[lja440]

Without their address but just the zip you can google the zip code and the Post Office. Such as: uspszip90210 will give you the address of that Post Office, in this case 325 N Maple Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210. You can use this to check all the available options to any address served by that zip code.  I suggest checking on paypal.com/shipnow as usps.com will not give you listings for on-line rates for FCP Parcel Select or Media Mail. 

Then when you have the real address use paypal.com/shipnow to print the label and get the on-line discount.

[nobody*s_perfect · Accepted solution]

You can use the eBay shipping calculator for that.  It will give the price based just on two ZIP Codes and it even lets you choose between the retail ("in-store") rates and the online rates.

http://www.ebay.com/shp/Calculator

 The cheapest shipping cost WILL be Priority Mail for all packages over 1 pound, unless they are eligible for Media Mail, or if they are over 1 cubic foot (1728 cubic inches) and going to Zones 5 - 8. 

[fairpromise]

Oh awesome thank you so much for this information, I will be checking this out now!

[fairpromise]

Thank you as well, I will use this method to determine future cost!