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Marked a few more of the games "for trade" on TOS.
Need some big boxes.....
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THIS, THIS A THOUSAND TIMES. Folks, the USPS is becoming a hostile place for flat-rate shippers. You know that big kiosk in the USPS that has all the "flat-rate" examples and lingo on it and is filled with boxes? MANY OF THOSE ARE NOT FLAT-RATE BOXES. There are boxes labeled "Flat-Rate" and boxes which look essentially exactly the same and stored there that are "Postal boxes." They will lose their shit if you try to use them as flat-rate boxes.lj1983 wrote: all of my stuff is shipped out, had to freaking fight with the PO about whether a box was flat-rate or not.
Be mindful and bother the shit out of them about this. It's nefarious.
Got me A GAME OF THRONES from Chapel. Looked like the USPS set off a stun grenade in the box itself as chits were everywhere. But the kids got it all organized and I must compliment FFG on a surprisingly effective box insert!
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Flat rate is tricky. You can ship a square box game in a flat rate box with minimal packaging, and I totally recommend it. However, book case games can go in a regular priority box and sometimes it winds up cheaper than flat rate by several dollars depending on where it's going.
I've never seen one of those legendary board game boxes.
A trick I like to use is to just go to the automated kiosks. You avoid the PO staff screwing around, and you can do fun things like accidentally mis-measure your package to avoid the size surcharge. I send stuff via normal priority in a flat rate box sometimes. I've not had any problems e with it.
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Michael Barnes wrote:
A trick I like to use is to just go to the automated kiosks. You avoid the PO staff screwing around, and you can do fun things like accidentally mis-measure your package to avoid the size surcharge. I send stuff via normal priority in a flat rate box sometimes. I've not had any problems e with it.
Gods, I wish that were an option. The kiosk here is broken 90% of the time. The one time I saw it working there was a lady there mailing something like fifteen packages from her home business. And taking her time with it.
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Michael Barnes wrote: I've never seen one of those legendary board game boxes.
store.usps.com/store/browse/productDetai...d=subcatMSS_FlatRate
Order them (near bottom of screen) and they'll deliver them to your house, for free.
Also, one other note on shipping. If you use PayPal or USPS.COM to ship things, it's much cheaper in the long run. Both give free delivery tracking, and both get a discount for not going to the office to do it.
Just print the label out, tape it to any ol box, and you're dialed in. Only thing you need is a scale if you don't use flatrates. Which I highly dissuade people from doing unless it's a heavy game or unless it's going a long way.
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jeb wrote:
Got me A GAME OF THRONES from Chapel. Looked like the USPS set off a stun grenade in the box itself as chits were everywhere. But the kids got it all organized and I must compliment FFG on a surprisingly effective box insert!
Good to know it got there in okie dokie shape. Game of Thrones is one of those games that I don't have everything bagged, only because it has a cool insert...However, inserts don't do well in transit apparently.
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Paging Matt Loter I need your shipping info!
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