Commercial shipping likely includes labour and material to prepare tge package for shipping.
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Commercial shipping likely includes labour and material to prepare tge package for shipping.
Some EE & stores definitely like to make a “little” profit on their shipping costs.
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Doesn't matter, the moment you go to the store and buy a pre paid box, you are no longer a SBA holder, you are a direct consumer, show them your account number, they wont give you a discount for flat rate boxes, you cannot request flat rate boxes through your SBA either, if you use the tracking after, you are tracking it as a generic consumer, linking it to your tracking history is allowed as that could be any package (even incoming).
As a small business account owner, you need to use Snap Ship to create labels and packages, or you go to the store and get boxes as general population does.
You have the privilege to do both as they are two completely different services provided to you. For a large scale retailer, it is a nightmare, and sometimes cannot be covered by insurance if done so, for example everything has to be run through the system for actual coverage and tracking as per store/insurance/inventory policies, and the system is then also linked to automated inventory control etc.
Last edited by brownbear53; 03-24-2024 at 01:09 PM. Reason: accidentally added an emoji
You also can't add any add-ons to fix rate boxes like insurance, it only comes with the fixed $100.
There's a difference between living and living free...
Don’t you think a retailer have time - personnel to do that ? Even if they do, they will charge additional fees - time - salary and use of vehicle. Business do nothing for free or they will not stay in business.
For most of us, the smallest CP box cost $19.50 - almost nothing can be shipped below than unless it is not thick and fit in a letter.
We have found this to not be the case. Flat rate is cheaper 99% of the time and includes 100$ of insurance and ships expedited. Even sending things to Vancouver from our location in PG (not very far) sending an item in a padded envelope costs 1$ more than a small flat rate box when you include the cost of the envelope after our discount. (Unless it's something flat and goes as untracked lettermail)