Shipping Rates out of whack?

tennesseebanker

I am selling some things on the bay the past week trying to clean out my office for our new arrival in April. So I sold some textbooks I used a few semesters ago in college. Anyway I do some research through the usps.com website. I estimated the book I sold to weigh about 4 to 5 pounds and imput the buyers zip code to see what parcel post would be. I get an amount of $6.63 and that is what I charged the buyer. so I go down the street to a local Postal Store (not the actual Post Office) to ship it today. When I asked how much it would cost to ship it she informs me it would be over $12 dollars for parcel post ! Well, I ended up shipping it media mail for a little over $5 bucks when at usps.com it says it would cost $3.39 by Media Mail. Are the folks at the local Postal Store trying to scam people or are the rates at usps.com that far off from reality ???

felix76

No they are not out of whack.

The little Mailbox stores mark up their shipping to make some money off of it. They will always be more expensive than a regular P.O.