Canadian Small Packages/Oversize Lettermail

[joetriever]

Has anyone heard anything regarding if Canada Post shipping through Paypal will be offering online postage purchase for small envelopes shipped within Canada? Currently there is nothing except regular parcel mail which if purchased online through Paypal charges $8.00 + for a small bubble envelope that you can mail at the post office for less than $2.00. I want to overcharge customers for shipping something small so I take the small bubble envelopes over to the post office. They weigh them and affix the correct postage. But for instances where the buyer claims the item was not received, there is no tracking when you have the post office mail them out this way. And Paypal will take the side of the buyer if you did not print and pay for shipping online as there is no tracking number when the post office puts the stamp on and mails it out. We have the light packet shipping through Paypal for small bubble envelopes heading for the US and every other country except our own! You try and keep your shipping costs on small items reasonable for the buyer. But when Paypal doesn't offer it and the shipment can't be tracked, it can come back and bite you.

[joetriever]

Sorry....I meant to say I DON'T want to overcharge customers for shipping something small....oops!

[coxengines]

Light and small packets to the USA and everywhere else are non-trackable anyhow so what's the difference between those and sending "lettermail" in Canada?

We create our Canadian shipping labels on our PC and affix the $1.18 postage or whatever it takes at the office - no waiting in line at the post office.

You can do this for all packages under 2cm right from your location. To Canada manually, to anywhere else on-line. Over 2cm it becomes a small packet to USA and Int'l and a parcel within Canada

Bernie

[pjcdn2005]

I do the same as Bernie. If you want to do it yourself Joe, here are the rates for oversized mail/other letters. [url http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/personal/productsservices/send/lettersdocuments.jsf#Letter][/url] Scroll up to see dimensions.

[joetriever]

Ebay can ask you for proof you shipped the item which you can get if you print the postage online through Paypal. But if you put stamps on it or take it to the post office and send it there is nothing you can upload or provide to Paypal when they ask you to provide proof the item was shipped. A receipt from the post office does not state the address the package was shipped to like it would if purchased on CP shipping at Paypal. I recently had one that was shipped out through the post office to a Cdn buyer. Buyer's bank did an "unauthorized payment" reversal after item was mailed. Paypal asked me for proof I shipped the item and I could not provide it to them as my local post office mailed it out as Cdn lettermail. Buyer won, the bank reversal went through, contacted me they did receive the item. Offered no explanation as to why they had their bank reverse payment and then said they would send the money and never did. The item was purchased at my own site and not Ebay but the transaction went through Paypal. I wasn't covered as the post office could not provide a receipt proving the item was shipped out to the buyer's address as it would have if I'd used Paypal.

[pjcdn2005]

Ebay can ask you for proof you shipped the item which you can get if you print the postage online through Paypal.

I don't think that would help. It only proves that you have printed out the label, not that the item was actually mailed.

[dipmicro]

Buyer won, the bank reversal went through

Btw. PayPal will not protect you. They will always find ways to least effort and cost to them.

I purchased from US seller and received 1/2 quantity. Seller ignores emails and PayPal dispute, so after week the dispute was changed to claim. 2hrs later PayPal rejected my claim because I actually received "something" and they do not protect any attributes of the shipment (i.e. quantity). I am out of $110. I don't do anything wrong and yet it seems PayPal always sides with the other side regardless if I am seller or buyer. So much for so called protection.

In Sicily businesses pay Cosa Nostra for "protection", here we have PayPal.

Now back to lettermail - use it for inexpensive shipments. It's impractical to ship $10 item with a service that costs $8~$10 itself. For some reason lettermail is faster than any parcel services, and Light Packet is faster than Small Packet. We also do same as Bernie and just use stamp. Forget protection, you do not have it. Add 50c to your shipping to build-up a recovery fund for inexpensive items losses, kind of like self-insurance.