This is what's wrong with the average ebay buyer

[buymycards]

Originally Posted by Gorditadogg

USPS will only allow a PWE to be 1/4 inch thick. If you put a piece of cardboard in there you are going to exceed that and if so shipping will be charged as a package. I have had to pay postage due many times from a seller who tried to put cardboard in an envelope and mail it with just a stamp.

A PWE is principally used to mail letters, and they are sorted through mechanical feeders. USPS has a special 85 cent stamp you can use to have the PWE hand sorted. My local post office advised that you should also mark the envelope NON MACHINABLE in red on the left side.

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A Card Saver 1 taped to a folded invoice, then placed in the envelope, qualifies for the new eBay Standard Envelope option and it gives some protection to the card, plus the total weight is under one ounce.

Also, the PO raised the price of non-machinable letters to 30 cents, so you will need one of the new 88 cent stamps for a one ounce non-machinable letter.

In addition, do not mark envelopes that have the printed eBay Standard Envelope postage as non-machinable. These letters are machinable, and if you mark them non-machinable, your buyer will need to pay a postage due charge. These letters are tracked when they go through the letter processing machines at the entry and the destination processing plants. If you mark them as non-machinable, they don't go through the machines and they will not be tracked. The bar-codes on these letters are not able to be scanned by the clerks scanners or the carriers scanners - they are only detected by the letter processing machines. The eBay Standard Envelopes are only meant to be used on machinable letters.

[jh691626]

Originally Posted by buymycards

A Card Saver 1 taped to a folded invoice, then placed in the envelope, qualifies for the new eBay Standard Envelope option and it gives some protection to the card, plus the total weight is under one ounce.

Also, the PO raised the price of non-machinable letters to 30 cents, so you will need one of the new 88 cent stamps for a one ounce non-machinable letter.

In addition, do not mark envelopes that have the printed eBay Standard Envelope postage as non-machinable. These letters are machinable, and if you mark them non-machinable, your buyer will need to pay a postage due charge. These letters are tracked when they go through the letter processing machines at the entry and the destination processing plants. If you mark them as non-machinable, they don't go through the machines and they will not be tracked. The bar-codes on these letters are not able to be scanned by the clerks scanners or the carriers scanners - they are only detected by the letter processing machines. The eBay Standard Envelopes are only meant to be used on machinable letters.

Agree with Rick, we have been putting a card (or several) in a sleeve and holder, taping it to folded piece of paper, and using the eBay standard envelope postage, probably for >100 sales at this point and it has worked great. It's actually great for both sellers and buyers for low-cost cards and I have not had any buyers note either slow shipping or card damage so far.

Jeff

[ASF123]

Originally Posted by jh691626

Agree with Rick, we have been putting a card (or several) in a sleeve and holder, taping it to folded piece of paper, and using the eBay standard envelope postage, probably for >100 sales at this point and it has worked great. It's actually great for both sellers and buyers for low-cost cards and I have not had any buyers note either slow shipping or card damage so far.

Jeff

But you wouldn't ship it in just the sleeve without the (presumably toploader) holder, right?

[jh691626]

Originally Posted by ASF123

But you wouldn't ship it in just the sleeve without the (presumably toploader) holder, right?

Yes, for sure!

[ASF123]

Originally Posted by jh691626

Yes, for sure!

Yes, you would, or yes, you wouldn’t?

[jh691626]

Originally Posted by ASF123

Yes, you would, or yes, you wouldn’t?

Yes, for sure would have the card in a toploader. If it were just in a sleeve, I think it would/could get damaged. We just put a single card in a sleeve and toploader, and if it's 2-5 cards or so, we put them into a wide toploader (you can do this for envelopes up to 3 oz.)

[ASF123]

Originally Posted by jh691626

Yes, for sure would have the card in a toploader. If it were just in a sleeve, I think it would/could get damaged. We just put a single card in a sleeve and toploader, and if it's 2-5 cards or so, we put them into a wide toploader (you can do this for envelopes up to 3 oz.)

Thanks - I asked on the previous page whether I should send a "hey, just FYI" email to an apparently inexperienced seller who shipped in just a soft sleeve. Thoughts?