Flat Rate Boxes from the Post Office

[RareBreed]

If you get them at the post office, can you bring them home to fill or do you have to do it there? I looked online and it says they will pick it up from your house but then how do you pay for shipping?

[migtig]

Buy the box at the post office, take it home, fill it up and mail it from your mailbox.

[Littlebit]

Pick it up at post office, bring home, pack, tape, take back too post office, they weigh it, you pay them cost for shipping done deal.

[Freefaller]

Originally Posted by RareBreed

If you get them at the post office, can you bring them home to fill or do you have to do it there? I looked online and it says they will pick it up from your house but then how do you pay for shipping?

The cost of the box includes the shipping cost. It is a FLAT RATE so the weight does not change the cost. As long as it fits in the box, the Post Office will deliver it. You can take it home, pack it and the Postman will pick it up from your house.

[GWguy]

Seems to me I saw an ad on TV recently, you can go on-line to create the shipping label, then have them pick it up at the house.

[RareBreed]

Thanks. I was just wondering how you pay for it if you fill it at home and take it back to the post office to mail. I don't think it will fit in our mailbox though and maybe not even those locked boxes on street corners. I was planning on getting one, fill it at home and take it back to the post office but I don't want to pay for the box and then have to pay again to ship it because I have no proof I paid the first time.

[SoMDGirl42]

Originally Posted by RareBreed

Thanks. I was just wondering how you pay for it if you fill it at home and take it back to the post office to mail. I don't think it will fit in our mailbox though and maybe not even those locked boxes on street corners. I was planning on getting one, fill it at home and take it back to the post office but I don't want to pay for the box and then have to pay again to ship it because I have no proof I paid the first time.

If the shipping is included in the price of the box, have them print the receipt and bring that with you when you fill it and are ready to ship it.

[RoseRed (Premo)]

[migtig]

Originally Posted by RareBreed

Thanks. I was just wondering how you pay for it if you fill it at home and take it back to the post office to mail. I don't think it will fit in our mailbox though and maybe not even those locked boxes on street corners. I was planning on getting one, fill it at home and take it back to the post office but I don't want to pay for the box and then have to pay again to ship it because I have no proof I paid the first time.

Oh my. Okay. I think I see your confusion.

When you go to the post office, they have a stack of a few different sized flat rate shipping boxes. You'll need to know what size roughly you want. But basically there is an envelope, a small box, a medium box and a big box. Pick your size. Go up to the counter where the clerk is. He or she will say the price and will mark your box with the shipping stamp. You pay the price. You go home, and fill up the box. Address it and stick it in the mail. Whether that's at home or back at the post office or in a mail box. It doesn't matter, because when you first bought and paid for the box it was stamped (postage). You don't need a receipt again or anything.


Hope that helps clear up the confusion.

[RareBreed]

Originally Posted by migtig

Oh my. Okay. I think I see your confusion.

When you go to the post office, they have a stack of a few different sized flat rate shipping boxes. You'll need to know what size roughly you want. But basically there is an envelope, a small box, a medium box and a big box. Pick your size. Go up to the counter where the clerk is. He or she will say the price and will mark your box with the shipping stamp. You pay the price. You go home, and fill up the box. Address it and stick it in the mail. Whether that's at home or back at the post office or in a mail box. It doesn't matter, because when you first bought and paid for the box it was stamped (postage). You don't need a receipt again or anything.


Hope that helps clear up the confusion.

Yes, it does. Thank you!!