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December 25, 2025 09:09PM
What’s the most you have gotten for a postal shop? There are a few that are a bit of a distance from me they keep asking me to do and I’d like to know what the ceiling is I can ask for them. Thank you in advance.
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December 25, 2025 11:13PM
I suspect they can't give anything more than what is shown. At least, offering has never been successful for me. They'll call and call to recruit, though.. Good luck! Let us know if you succeed.
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December 26, 2025 12:32AM
From the previous MSC, I used to get $30 - $60 per shop.. I didn't do a lot of them, because we had to wait till the end of the quarter to get the highly bonused shops. But they started out at $12 and reimbursed $15 for the shipping, and reimbursed for the supplies too. Those days are gone, and I no longer do shipping shops.
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December 26, 2025 01:03AM
I can't get but $15 for hazmat and up to $25 on regular.

Shopping Arkansas, Louisiana, & Mississippi.
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December 26, 2025 02:07AM
$25 is the max they will go. You can tell them to stop calling and to either text or email. The calls are too much, especially since they are calling from a call center and they dial repeatedly until someone answers. I had to ask them a few times to stop, and now they just text.
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December 26, 2025 03:14PM
They will continiue to call even you ask, I started block the numbers without any luck. When I need to send something to my family I am picking them up regardless of pay.

Shopping Eastern Pennsylvania since 2009


Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/26/2025 03:19PM by gene.
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December 26, 2025 03:48PM
With the current company, I haven't received more than $30 for hard to fill locations. One of the reasons I keep my VOIP home phone is so I don't have to give companies like this my cell number, since the call center calls every single day for locations that are hundreds of miles from me, offering $15.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/26/2025 03:49PM by mjt9598.
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December 26, 2025 04:10PM
@Morledzep wrote:

Those days are gone, and I no longer do shipping shops.
Same here....this MSC just doesn't get my interest for these shops anymore. I used to do a lot of them, some nicely bonused. No more.
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December 26, 2025 05:50PM
Same. I used to have a joke with my sister and brother-in-law, that I was sending their monthly subscriptions (the goodies I would ship them that weighed a pound or slightly less). I had to cancel the subscription and they just will get what I can when I can. Not with this current MSC, though.
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December 26, 2025 06:07PM
I have to beg for a bonus. They list $5 fee, plus reimbursement up to $15. I have a few callers that finally do not offer me hazmat as I have said REPEATEDLY I will not do those. I have never received more than $15 which is a $10 bonus plus the fee. you who have received more must have a golden touch.
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December 26, 2025 06:50PM
I had to escalate to Jason Bare to get the contact center calls to stop. You can try that. The calls are out of hand. I was getting 20-30 a day, and I work full time.
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December 26, 2025 07:10PM
I sent a few holiday packages hazmat this year. Laptop battery scenario because I sent early enough that ground was OK. My family didn't notice or did but assumed it was just me doing something weird again (they're used to it). The bonus was at $10 so my total cost to ship was covered even though I was shipping across country and 3+ pounds at a time. Shipping packages I actually need to ship on their dime is the only motivation for me to do them.
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December 29, 2025 11:04AM
@guysmom wrote:

@Morledzep wrote:

Those days are gone, and I no longer do shipping shops.
Same here....this MSC just doesn't get my interest for these shops anymore. I used to do a lot of them, some nicely bonused. No more.



Yeah. This is 100% "on me" for doing this but I was raised in a household where you didn't talk about insignificant things like money, feelings, failing grades, or what you wanted to do with your life. So as an adult, I often don't go into detail about why I drop a subscription or like in this case, why I don't do a particular mystery shop. One day one of the people from the MSC gave me a call about the postal shops. I guess I had an unguarded moment or something and I flat out said, "they don't pay enough any more." Haven't heard from them again since. And to think inside of 18 months ago, I was making a very nice consistent income from the "other" MSC with triple digit fees for shipping a box. Just goes to remind me that this is money...it's not income.
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December 30, 2025 12:57AM
When they call me I tell them I am out of town. That generally stops them from calling as they say they'll put that in their notes on when I will return. It seems to work.
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December 30, 2025 06:18PM
Just did my last one for 2025 today. Got $20 for it.
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December 31, 2025 03:24PM
It all depends on the location. If it's a location that is regularly shopped then they're not going to pay a lot. But if it's a location in the middle of nowhere that doesn't get assigned often then they will pay more.
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January 01, 2026 04:35AM
Hundreds of new ones for 2026 appeared on Tuesday. All are paying $5, so I will be on the sidelines waiting for bonuses. Even if I am literally driving past it anyway, I will no longer do one for $5. If you are doing only PO shops, you can only do 2 per hour. If I am using a significant part of the required time between shops driving then I need to be paid for my time and my mileage ($0.725 per mile). $5 per stop is impossible. There are a few short routes where $10 per stop is marginally viable.

Shopping South Jersey, Southeast Pennsylvania, and Delaware above the canal since 2008


Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/01/2026 01:36PM by myst4au.
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January 01, 2026 11:31AM
I never get sales calls for these. Maybe because I changed a digit in my profile's phone number after repeated requests to stop texting me were ignored.
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January 06, 2026 03:34PM
That's what I do as well, DeeDee. I only do these shops late in the month when they're bonused and only when I'm shipping things I really do need to ship. That brings it up to $30 a shop. I run a non-profit where we send annual gifts to donors and I use these shops for those. Though they may have wondered why I am slipping tiles into some of the packages....

Shopping domestic and international locations since 2003.
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