I’ve been spending some time e-baying electronics lately. (Just trying to get rid of old, unused stuff that never panned out.)<\/p>\n
Because, I visit this topic so many times (every time I eBay), I thought I’d put some conclusions for myself on how to ship these.<\/p>\n
I really like the priority options from the USPS. There are two options here: flat-rate or regional rate.<\/p>\n
First, this chart lists whether it’s better to do regional rate or flat-rate. The important thing to remember is that it’s heavily dependent on the size of the item you are shipping.<\/p>\n
If it can fit, the small flat-rate box<\/a> is preferred. It is $6.65 at the Post Office or $5.95 “commercial base” (which I think means online).<\/p>\n The only issue is that the small envelope is the inside of these boxes are 8 5\/8″ x 5 3\/8″ x 1 5\/8″. This should be big enough for a 3.5″ internal hard disk drive (which measures 5.75″ x 4″ x 1″).<\/p>\n But it’s probably not big enough for anything else (routers, external hard drives, etc.). Instead, for a flat-rate option, you’d have to go with the Medium Flat Rate Box – 1 (top loading). This costs $13.60 at the post office or $12.40 “commercial base”.<\/p>\n Instead, if you have something this big, it probably makes more sense to go with the regional rate box A1. These are 10 1\/8″ x 7 1\/8″ x 5″. This goes by zones (difference between starting and ending zone). As long as you are within 8 zones, it makes sense to go with these. If you are within one or two zones, it is as cheap as $6.52<\/a>. (Curiously, this price list is hard to come by on the USPS website. Instead, I’m linking to stamps.com.)<\/p>\n Finally, for 2.5″ SSDs, you can probably get away with a padded envelope (or small flat-rate box). The prices are around the same, but there’s a lot less packaging\/padding to add with the envelope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been e-Baying old electronics lately. Because, I visit this topic so many times (every time I eBay), I thought I’d put some conclusions for myself on how to ship items I sell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[223,225,224],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","tag-ebay","tag-selling","tag-shipping"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}