THE tip for shipping fish via USPS!! must read!

[Shwin]

Another good tip: order boxes online. You can package them, address them, and have them all ready to go before you even leave. This saves me about 20 minutes of standing in line to get boxes, filling them out at the bleedin post office, and then standing in line again to mail them.


http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/postal_store_non_ssl/display_products/productDetail.jsp?OID=1003571
(small size)


http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/postal_store_non_ssl/display_products/productDetail.jsp?OID=1003568
(biggish size)

Do my eyes deceive me?  Are those boxes free?!!!

[Clint]

yep, priority mailing boxes are free, and labels are free too!
Not only that, the boxes are delivered to you postage free too.
Can't beat it.

Only catch is that the USPS's site has the worst site navigation Ive ever seen.

[Shwin]

Yea, when I clicked to go look around the store, I couldn't find my way back to the small priority boxes.  Using the left menu.  I just ordered some small boxes after I found them again.

Labels???  Where??

[Clint]

For your (and my) convienience heres some direct links to their shtuff.
Dont loose these links, finding them again is a real adventure.
Small USPS box http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/postal_store_non_ssl/display_products/productDetail.jsp?OID=1003571

Cube shaped box http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/postal_store_non_ssl/display_products/productDetail.jsp?OID=1003566

and the real "needle in the haystack" the labels - http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/postal_store_non_ssl/display_products/productDetail.jsp?OID=1003578

I actually did lose my link to the labels. The USPS site is absolutely horrid.

Lets play find the labels:
Its product number is 228 its official name is LABEL 228  search for label 228 or even LABEL 228 and you'll comepletely flabbergast the search engine.
 Its almost comical.

[natsirt]

Every priority mail product that the USPS offers.  The first link is for "personal" use the second is for "business" use.  They don't care if you aren't actually a business.  I have ordered from both.

http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/postal_store_non_ssl/display_products/productCategory.jsp?cat=Personal+Use&prodCat=/Shipping+Supplies/Personal+Use/2.+Priority+Mail

http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/postal_store_non_ssl/display_products/productCategory.jsp?cat=Business+Use&prodCat=/Shipping+Supplies/Business+Use/2.+Priority+Mail

[6Fish_Pimp6]

So those boxes are for free? You just order them and tell them where you live and it's no cost for shipping or the boxes?

[Shwin]

Yup.  But they take a hell...o of a long time to get to you.  Oh, and you can only use them for the service they are designated for, the insides have warnings printed all over the inside.

[Yvette]

yes the boxes are free. Youcan ONLY use them for Priority mailing though. (you can do overnight if you get a nice clerk though).

Ive ordered enough boxes for an army in the past month or so, they do take a week to 2 weeks to get to you. Your local post office will have SOME boxes but not in mass quantities if youneed a few soon.

[6Fish_Pimp6]

Where can you get(or do you get) boxes for overnight? Because I don't want to pay for any at the post office.

[Yvette]

For overnight, I usually use boxes that Ive got around the house. Usually shipments of whatever that Ive had sent to me. (recycle, recycle!)