Not sure if/when anything changed...but since when did USPS start charging balloon
rates for parcels over (best I can tell) a 550 cubic inches limit? It was always
a cubic foot. Today though I am getting rates that change almost every 200 cubic
inches, to the tune that their normal free boxes cost MORE than the Large Flat
Rate box!?!?! It really makes no sense at all.
Has anyone else noticed this? Or have reference to a site explaining the new
calculations? I checked USPS and cannot find a thing about it other than the
states cubic foot and balloon rates over that.
I shipped yesterday too and this did not happen that I noticed, nor in the weeks
since the last stated rate increase for the holidays. Really makes UPS Ground
a steal on pricing in comparison.
Pirate Ship offers the best rate estimate to calculate shipping and is the same
rates as Ship Station via PayPal. Hope that helps.
Thanks. Though that is the same info I was aware of, it is all in effect for
larger and heavier parcels. But the one I have is 14x11x7 and coming up all
sort so prices as I select heights that I could cut the box down to. Actual
cubic area is well under the cubic foot and still random balloon fees are added
on with each extra inch in height. It makes no sense to any info I can find
on USPS rate calculations, and this is using Stamps.com commercial rates same
as those other places. It's just the most bizarre as I've never run
into it before this package.
USA, Missouri
