Shipping to Hawaii excluded.

[rr_deal]

I have Hawaii excluded in my shipping preference but someone from Hawaii won an item I had up for auction and I am not sure what to do. Do I ship it or contact the buyer and let him know I don't ship to Hawaii and refund the buyer. This is first time this has happen.

Thanks

[1786davycrockett]

@rr_deal 

Why are you excluding Hawaii?

You are showing "Free shipping" on many of your items, and USPS shipping to Hawaii (including shipping by the eBay Standard Envelope - ESE) is identical to USPS shipping to the 48 contiguous states).

So what have you got against Hawaii?

[lakefor94 · Accepted solution]

If it is an item that ships USPS and is not very heavy, the price is not much more to ship to Hawaii than east coast to west coast.

The only listings in which I exclude Hawaii, Alaska and PR are the ones that ship UPS Ground because they are large and heavy.

[rr_deal]

Thank you for your reply.

[rr_deal]

Thank you. Nothing against Hawaii, I will include them in my shipping preference.

[soh.maryl]

How about Alaska? Puerto Rico? 

[jonesing-for-it]

Poi. I don't ship to Hawaii because of poi (jk).

Once you're shipping to Zone 8 it doesn't matter if that's Hawaii, Guam or Tinian (Google it, I sent a PM parcel there once, same cost as shipping to Los Angeles for me).

[pjcdn2005]

Hawaii is zone 8 but isn’t Guam and other territories usps zone 9?

[jonesing-for-it]

I just remember when I sold something to Tinian I:

a. had to Google it

b. was surprised the shipping was the same as LA for me

c. wondered how I could deliver the mail there in the tropics

I just looked and LA and Tinian are the same cost for 1lb Priority Mail for me.