Calculating postage?

[roaddogg02316]

I've yet to get myself a scale, can't find anything reasonably priced. I have 33 cards I'm set to ship. I went to the PO today and got a price of $1.88. Should have noted the ounces. But the buyer paid by paypal so I can print my label that way. Right now putting it at 5 oz has the postage at $1.90
Is it safe to say thats probably how much it weighed at the PO. I don't want to put too much or not enough on this.

Any help is appreciated. I'm almost set to go with the 5 oz on these 33 cars because it comes close to what the PO said.

[jdawg]

i got me a scale 3 years ago off ebay for 30 shipped and it had paid for itself 40 times just on d/c fees from paypal savings

[roaddogg02316]

i got me a scale 3 years ago off ebay for 30 shipped and it had paid for itself 40 times just on d/c fees from paypal savings

What kind did you get? Only thing I seem to be able to find decent is these WeighMax ones. They are Chinese or something. But people who bought them on Amazon have had trouble. So I'm skeptical on buying that.

[bouncer]

I've yet to get myself a scale, can't find anything reasonably priced. I have 33 cards I'm set to ship. I went to the PO today and got a price of $1.88. Should have noted the ounces. But the buyer paid by paypal so I can print my label that way. Right now putting it at 5 oz has the postage at $1.90
Is it safe to say thats probably how much it weighed at the PO. I don't want to put too much or not enough on this.

Any help is appreciated. I'm almost set to go with the 5 oz on these 33 cars because it comes close to what the PO said.

Go to Walmart and buy the cheapest digital food scale you can find. I bought one for about $15 and it serves it's purpose. All you need it to do is measure ounces.

[roaddogg02316]

Go to Walmart and buy the cheapest digital food scale you can find. I bought one for about $15 and it serves it's purpose. All you need it to do is measure ounces.

They sell them in Walmart? Just did a search of Walmart online and it came up with 5 of them, but none are sold in stores. I'll have to go to the store and see.

[jnuh]

sign up for stamps.com they send you a 5lb scale free for signing up.

[roaddogg02316]

sign up for stamps.com they send you a 5lb scale free for signing up.

Is it worth it at all? I know if I signed up it would be to get the trial offer and scale then I'd cancel before it was up. But on that scale don't you need to do something just to be able to use it if you cancel your membership with stamps.com? thought I had read that before? I'm kind of all set with that hassle.

[jnuh]

Is it worth it at all? I know if I signed up it would be to get the trial offer and scale then I'd cancel before it was up. But on that scale don't you need to do something just to be able to use it if you cancel your membership with stamps.com? thought I had read that before? I'm kind of all set with that hassle.

Honestly, if you ship a lot it is worth keeping the account active. I never go to the PO anymore which is sweet and DC is $.80 at the post office and only $.19 through stamps.com ... If I send out 100 things a month (which I easily do) I am saving 61 dollars.

[roaddogg02316]

Honestly, if you ship a lot it is worth keeping the account active. I never go to the PO anymore which is sweet and DC is $.80 at the post office and only $.19 through stamps.com ... If I send out 100 things a month (which I easily do) I am saving 61 dollars.

Can you ship first class with stamps.com? I know I've just been printing labels using paypal. Easy because I have funds on the account. Only issue is no scale. Does the stamps.com scale make it so you have to use there software to get a reading or something? I heard that somewhere.