USPS Will Verify Postage Starting AUG 1

[b.comm]

USPS will charge sellers or their vendors for short postage. Packages will go to buyers as normal with no postage due. Sellers will also be reimbursed for paying too much postage.

http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/abblog/blog.pl?/pl/2017/7/1500580999.html

[the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth]

I use mainly RRA, Medium Flat Rate boxes and Flat Rate envelopes. Whichever is the cheapest for the shipment. I can't remember the last time I had to weigh something.

Wait, it was a huge box going to Australia.

[Anonymous]

I don't and would never expect excess postage to be reimbursed.  You overpay, that's your problem.  But I have to say that I'm almost giddy thinking about all those shippers who have been scamming the system for all these years getting caught and having to actually pay for what they get.

All I can say is.....

WOO HOO

[timecatchers]

eBay (USPS) no longer charges the same for all 1st. class packages under 8 ounces. There is a different charge for 3 oz compared to, say, 7oz. Also, now packages up to 16 oz can be shipped 1st class.

[hit-for-the-cycle]

if you buy the postage through ebay, the prices are different than those rates published and charged by USPS themselves.

[partial*eclipse]

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@hit-for-the-cycle wrote:
if you buy the postage through ebay, the prices are different than those rates published and charged by USPS themselves.

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@hit-for-the-cycle

eBay charges the regular USPS published domestic online commercial rates, which is why I linked to that page for FC packages  in Notice 123.  There is no special ebay rate.

[hit-for-the-cycle]

Thanks for the clarification. I was thinking the regular online USPS rates, not the commercial rates.

[partial*eclipse]

The online rate IS the "commercial" rate. When you purchase postage directly from USPS through Click N Ship, you are charged the same retail rates that you'd be charged when purchasing postage  over-the-counter at the Post Office. Also, AFAIK they don't offer First Class postage, only Priority.  

[7198dave]

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@iamonourside wrote:

 I almost always overstate the weight, choosing to buy postage for 8 ounces, even if the item weighs 3 to 7 ounces since eBay charges the same for First Class those weights, and  It is more effecient than weighing every single thing.  

I do not hold my breath that I would ever see benefit of any refund for overstating weight even if ebay were to receive the payment.

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I did that a few times, then wondered what if the plane crashes and the loaders say, the package said 8 oz and we thought that would balance the planes weight.