Originally Posted by QKO
Originally Posted by MTS
Originally Posted by QKO
A couple of other comments -- the new legal-sized FRE's hold more and ship for the same price -- $4.95 if purchased at the post office, $4.75 if postage is purchased online.
That is incorrect info.
http://postcalc.usps.gov/MailService...&MailingTime=8:00%20AM&mt=37
And when, and if, they get added to the PayPal form, they'll still be full priced.
They have been priced the same as regular FRE's since they appeared several months ago. We use stamps.com and they do differentiate this price difference between the padded FRE's and the regular FRE's, however they do not yet differentiate a price difference between the regular and the legal-sized FRE's, so we've been shipping the legal-sized at $4.75. Our post office has yet to tell us there is a difference in price. We've shipped hundreds of legal-sized ones at $4.75 so far without a problem.
Thanks for the info, we'll have to keep an eye on this to see if they do indeed raise the prices as your reference shows. It's also possible that services like paypal and/or stamps.com get a discount not available elsewhere.
This is an interesting coincidence. Just a few minutes after I posted the above, I got notified that a new update for our stamps.com software was available. So I downloaded and installed it.
The new software now supports the new regional-rate flat rate boxes (Yay!) This will lower the cost of some shipments, especially those closer to us, and for those shipments that fall between the sizes afforded for the FRE and the medium flat-rate box. (Yay! And finally! This update was supposed to happen in May).
The new software update also still does NOT have a separate price for the legal-sized FRE's like it does for the padded FRE's, so I guess we'll continue to ship the legals for $4.75.