Reminder: Last Day of Current Postage Discounts

[momcqueen]

So, I'm miserable at the moment with a fresh head cold or allergies or something and sitting on a pair of orders placed this morning that will go nowhere fast until Tuesday due to the statutory holiday so I was considering to procrastinate packing and dispatching the orders until tomorrow until I remembered the current ebay postage discount with Canada Post expires on July 1.

https://community.ebay.ca/t5/Announcements/Update-Shipping-Rate-Changes/ba-p/403905

Tomorrow, it will cost more to purchase these postage labels. 

Looks like I'd be smarter to do it today.

No breaks.

[femmefan1946]

Can I offer you a mug of hot lemon juice and honey for your cold?

[momcqueen]

Thank you, or some cheese to accompany my whine. 

I've a new order for which to buy postage today, and it's destined for a remote/rural location, so we'll soon see how painful this will be. Free shipping, of course. Everything that has sold lately with 'free shipping' has gone to a remote/northern buyer where they are certainly getting their money's worth from it. Ouch. 

[ypdc_dennis]

For Expedited the difference in Canada is around 6%

All other Canada Post services for Canada had no eBay discount.

[choppsshopjg]

Went on the Shippo site today to do a comparison. Expedited to the US. No change! Same price on PayPal and same price on Canada Post website. Are the changes just for shipping to Canada? Or for everywhere?

[ypdc_dennis]

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@choppsshopjg wrote:
Went on the Shippo site today to do a comparison. Expedited to the US. No change! Same price on PayPal and same price on Canada Post website. Are the changes just for shipping to Canada? Or for everywhere?

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If the prices are the same on Shippo as on PayPal and Canada Post then the eBay special discount is gone.

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The only services after January 2018 that had the eBay extra discount were Expedited Parcel (Canada or USA) and Tracked Packet USA.

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[lotzofuniquegoodies]

Would be curious to know if dot com sellers using USPS/Fedex etc qualify for some sort of a  discount and how much it could possibly be???

-CM

[lady.stark]

Oh God... I had a couple of orders too and totally forgot about that! On one, it doesn't matter, because there was no discount (small packet), but for the other, I guess I'll have to pay the full price now (tracked packet USA).

To make matters worse, I accepted a Best Offer on this one. Good thing I finally decided to counter-offer at $5 more than what I first wanted to counter for.

Why did I forget about that date? 😞

[femmefan1946]

I guess I'll have to pay the full price now (tracked packet USA).

SnapShip(Canada Post) should still have the 5% Small Business discount. And when we are shipping out of Canada there is no GST to pay.

[lady.stark]

There is no difference between Snapship, Shippo or PayPal.

[femmefan1946]

One small Shippo benefit, that we all hope we never have to use.

Shippo allows Canadians to buy USPS postage (and possibly also UPS/FedEx USA labels).

This means we can send return shipping labels to unhappy customers and get our disputed products back before refunding.