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April 27, 2023 08:18PM
Hi there! I do a fair amount of USPS package shops. I've exhausted my family across the country because sometimes I send out five packages to them in a day, and they don't understand what I do or why so many packages lol. Is there anyone else with this dilemma? I'm looking for a shipping buddy in PA or OH or NC to keep my costs down. You can send me as many packages as you like. Be forewarned - I do a lot of these shops, so you have to be wiling to accept a lot of packages. DM me if interested. TIA!

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/11/2023 08:32PM by Chix.
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April 29, 2023 12:11AM
You are shipping water? That has to be answered as "yes" for the haz mat questions.
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April 29, 2023 02:17PM
hmm, I haven't done these shops are they on the shopmetric side? I am in VA so likely no help since it wasn't one you mentioned.
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April 29, 2023 05:04PM
Yeah, I noticed many enjoy these shops. I read the guidelines and wondered if they were worth it, but have not jumped in the pool. I guess I will try one and see. I may be the next one to ask for shipping contacts.
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April 30, 2023 07:12PM
Im interested Im in Youngstoen. Oh. Email is gwaring2004@gmail.com
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April 30, 2023 07:26PM
You meant Youngstown, OH - Right?
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May 02, 2023 12:16AM
message me if you'd like a shipping buddy. i'm in Chicago.
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May 03, 2023 12:08AM
@purpleicee wrote:

Yeah, I noticed many enjoy these shops. I read the guidelines and wondered if they were worth it, but have not jumped in the pool. I guess I will try one and see. I may be the next one to ask for shipping contacts.

The survey is VERY easy and fast.
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May 07, 2023 08:40PM
I am in California if anyone else needs a partner.
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May 07, 2023 08:47PM
I have never done one of these. Do people use these to mail items to friends and family?

Thanks,
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May 07, 2023 11:08PM
I am about to do my first one and that is what I am going to do.
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May 07, 2023 11:09PM
I have read some have used it to send things to their customers, on EBAY, for example.
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May 08, 2023 01:52PM
I have used this shop to mail items I've sold on eBay, but after one of my shops was rejected because they felt I took too much time on my way out the post office (I stopped to check on supplies, which were on the far side of the lobby), I won't use it for eBay anymore. I use a third party service that gives me lower commercial rates on my eBay packages, so paying retail postage with the chance that the shop could be rejected isn't worth the anxiety to me. So I found a food bank to which I send beans or some other dry goods, and prefer to do that for these shops. And now I hurry out the door as soon as the transaction is done!

Also, for the OP, the guidelines have apparently been revised and state only this about the addresses on our packages: "You must ship to a different zip code and city than the post office you are visiting." Nowhere in the guidelines does it require that we ship to addresses within particular zones anymore. The food bank I'm using for my shipments is actually only about a half-hour's drive away from me.
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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 05/08/2023 03:21PM by shopnyc.
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May 08, 2023 06:35PM
Shopnyc, the reason for shipping to limited zips is because of the cost. I live on the west coast and if I ship to the east coast I have to pay $3 or 4 out of pocket. I can only ship to about half way across the country. After that the reimbursement does not cover it.
And for new shoppers...I believe that many that do these a lot live in areas with bonuses. In my large city, and probably in other large cities where shops get taken for the base rate this shop in my opinion is only worth while if you are shipping something to a friend or family as a gift. Sending some silly things my son can buy cheaply just to earn $8 or so is just not worth it to me as I spend time driving, waiting in long lines, packaging and addressing and doing the report.
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May 09, 2023 01:21AM
For the Hazmat shipping shops you have to ship to zones 5 through 8 from the origin address. Regular box shops have never had to be shipped any further away than the very next zip code. I do drive to other cities and ship boxes back to me. But I prefer to send stuff to other people, it seems more believable that way.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/09/2023 01:21AM by Morledzep.
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May 09, 2023 03:10AM
@sandyf wrote:

Shopnyc, the reason for shipping to limited zips is because of the cost.
I know. The reimbursement is only $14, and Priority coast to coast is more than that.
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May 09, 2023 03:20AM
@Morledzep wrote:

Regular box shops have never had to be shipped any further away than the very next zip code.
I've never done a Hazmat shop, but I remember having to check the zones when I started doing the regular box ones because the guidelines specified to do so. It apparently wasn't enough to be just a different zip, I thought. I seem to recall that it had to start at Zone 2. Am I wrong?
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May 09, 2023 08:29AM
Shop,

Yep, they used the same guidelines for the reg box and hazmat shops. You had to read carefully. It said clearly that checking the zones was to insure the hazmat boxes went on an airplane. And that reg box shops could not be sent to the same zip code.

I have never checked a zone for a reg box shops. Even in CA, before I left, I made routes of reg box shops in Riverside and just sent the boxes home to Moreno Valley.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/09/2023 09:35PM by Morledzep.
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May 09, 2023 08:58AM
I did check zones a few times where I live. In LA there are maybe 50 or more zip codes inside the same city. Some zips were outside of my zone which I think they called zone 0. I never shipped anything within the city even tho it was a different zip. But I did ship to a friend about 35 miles away in not only a different city but a different county and that was okay. As I recall it had something to do with the main servicing center for the area where you lived but I am not sure. So in my large city there were numerous zips that used the same servicing center. and that was my zone 0.
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May 09, 2023 09:42PM
Sandy, here in rural northern AL almost all of the cities in my part of the state go through the same processing center in Birmingham. And I ship from neighboring cities all of the time. It has always said in the guidelines that you can't send to the same zip code. I guess I can download the current guidelines on the tablet and copy it for you, but it seems like a lot of work for no reason, you seem to be reading and comprehending the posts here just fine.
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May 09, 2023 11:19PM
Thanks for your offer. I have no need to do shipping jobs in my city. At the base rate it is only worth it to me if I am sending a gift to someone I know. If they live in my city I will just hand it to them the next time I see them.
Too much work finding parking and packaging and doing the report for $12! if it is not something I will have to pay postage for to mail.
@Morledzep wrote:

Sandy, here in rural northern AL almost all of the cities in my part of the state go through the same processing center in Birmingham. And I ship from neighboring cities all of the time. It has always said in the guidelines that you can't send to the same zip code. I guess I can download the current guidelines on the tablet and copy it for you, but it seems like a lot of work for no reason, you seem to be reading and comprehending the posts here just fine.
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May 12, 2023 03:14AM
I wait until the rural shops are bonused to $50 or more… then I jump on those, schedule them out a week so I have a chance to build a route there and back.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/12/2023 02:48PM by misspocos75.
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