@JASFLALMT wrote:
You add up all sides. Your total size dimensions needs to be 36 inches or less. Your Amazon box is the right size, but if it has markings on it, you need to turn it inside out and tape it back up.
@frostycakes wrote:
Has anyone been rejected for box size? I know we're allowed to go over on weight and pay the difference... Did a shop today and the clerk got a different measurement on my box than I did, which put me just over 36" total. I wasn't sure how to handle not shipping it so I went ahead and let them mail....
@frostycakes wrote:
Has anyone been rejected for box size? I know we're allowed to go over on weight and pay the difference... Did a shop today and the clerk got a different measurement on my box than I did, which put me just over 36" total. I wasn't sure how to handle not shipping it so I went ahead and let them mail....
@JASFLALMT wrote:
I personally find driving to a store to buy a box unnecessary and it eats into my time and profit. If I drive to the store, pick out the box, stand in line to pay for it, and drive back home, there's another 45 minutes spent on the post office shop, greatly reducing my profit margin. Oh, and then I have to wait to get reimbursed for my out of pocket expense.
I tend to pick up boxes that I can reuse when I am out and about in stores for other reasons. I can find boxes that the store was going to put in the baler and use those instead. I get them for free and can turn them inside out and tape them back up. That takes me a minute or 2 to do, and I didn't have to go out of my way to find them. Oh, yeah, and I am also being kind to the planet by reusing and reducing!!!
@wwin wrote:
sandyf, I had the same problems turning boxes inside out. The post offices in my area don't have a problem with the paper wrapping (I use paper bags) but I remember reading others that have had issues. I usually tape up the wrapped box on all sides. Since I ship mostly to myself I can remove the postal stickers easier on a taped box and reuse the box over and over. Another option to consider is picking up some of the brown shipping tape doing a hazmat job then covering box markings with that. I've done that once or twice if the markings aren't too big.