Meaning of Shipping Services

[alolt]

Hi,

I want to sell some old books and I've decided to try to sell them on eBay. I have a question regarding the shipping services.

If I create a listing with the shipping service "Canada Post Lettermail", my understanding is that the buyer will expect to receive the item via Canada Post's "Lettermail" service. If I create a listing with the shipping service "FedEx Economy" then the buyer will expect to receive the item via FedEx's "Economy" service. But what if I create a listing with the shipping service "Economy Shipping"? What does that tell the buyer?

Thanks,

Alex

[aubreyclay56]

dont use fed ex your customers will hate you,they charge your customers brokerage fees on top of import duties whether applicable or not,better off by far with canada post,i dont think you will be able to send a book lettermail because of the weight of the item,it will have to go express post or regular parcel,a small booklet you can send lettermail

[femmefan1946]

Lettermail is fine for thin, light books. You can't ship anything over 500gr or 2cm by LetterMail.

Lettermail is called LetterPost for USA and overseas. LightPacket is the same service, but can be printed from Paypal.

There is no PP discount on the service and no tracking.

After that you are into parcel services and there are dozens of those.

Do NOT use couriers. They are more expensive and no faster than the equivalent Canada Post service. If your customer is not in a fair sized city, the courier will subcontract delivery to Canada Post anyway.

Go to https://www.canadapost.ca/cpotools/apps/far/business/findARate?execution=e1s1  and play with various dimensions and destinations.

For USA I use 90210 as the zipcode.

Use metric. Canada Post went metric in 1974 and everything else is guesswork.

Economy Shipping is a generic term. It just means the seller will probably use a cheap slow service, like Regular* Parcel.

But keep 2cm /500 grams firmly in mind. Nothing larger can go letter rate.

*Which isn't always the cheapest. Like I say, play around on the website.