Need Ebay Shipping Advice

Theres a few different sizes of the flat rate boxes. At the very least they would definitely fit in the flat rate padded envelop. Check out the USPS site for their supplies theres a lot of flat rate sizes and things the POs dont carry that they will ship to your house free if you order it.

A small flat rate box I think would work though just from guesstimating

A Small Priority Flat Rate box (I have one in front of me) measures 5" x 8" (both rounded down) and will stack Cent rolls 2 high. It'll easily fit 20 rolls; in fact, you'll have to pack stuff in there to keep them from shifting. And do so, as a habit. The most annoying thing a seller can receive is a box with stuff rattling around in it. Flat Rate covers to 70lbs, so you can combine shipping as much as you want.

I keep bags from grocery and convenience store trips, and reuse them as free stuffing.

The 20 rolls can easily fit into a small flat rate box. You should also print all your shipping labels at home, you'll save a little bit of money versus post office price. You will also save time because you can just drop those packages into blue PO boxes with shipping on them and not have to stand in line. I would recommend to stand in line and get any insured package personally accepted. My post office doesn't bother to give half my packages an intake scan. If the post office doesn't have proof that they ever got a package, you can't ever make an insurance claim.

I would probably purchase my own padded shipping envelopes and ship all your slabs (well secured and additionally packaged inside) first class. If we're talking $1000+ I might put them inside a priority box, but the rest can be sent just the same with confirmation and insurance in first class packages. Cheaper too. I have also not seen any more speed in delivery in their priority tier versus first class.

One more thing. Don't bother with ebay's automatic combined shipping tools, but definitely use combined shipping. Just mention that you combine shipping in your item description and then send your buyer an invoice with the adjusted rate after the auctions are done. Sending an invoice and changing the rate will be pretty easy once you see the items on your "sold" screen.

Thanks again to all who responded! You guys (girls) are fantastic. Got my answer in less than 1 hour. Will be posting sets of 10 rolls tonight. My slabbed coins that are going off tonight are starting to move now. Was worried for a while.

Thanks again

edgman
aka: xyguy12 on ebay

I just really don't think so. I'm on the west coast and I have to ship 80% of my things to central time or EST. I thought I noticed that priority was slow one day so I decided to look into it. I kept records of tracking over a little while to see and compared packages going to similar time zones sent on similar days (to account for some days like Monday send off) being a bit slower. My sample size was about 100 FC and 20 priority. Not big enough for a conclusive study, but big enough to mean something.

I found that in most cases, priority and FC arrived on exactly the same date. FC packages were more likely to be miss-routed or messed up in some way to cause them to be extremely late, but based off my study, priority was actually more likely to be a little late. I only had one lost package during this period, and that was FC.

For the sake of a recent anecdote, I have an important and expensive shipment that I shipped priority to EST that was due today, and it's not there. A few of the FC packages shipped together (as well as envelopes) have already arrived to EST.