Answers to questions about upcoming USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL rate changes

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Answers to questions about upcoming USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL rate changes

12-17-2006, 01:13 PM,

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Answers to questions about upcoming USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL rate changes

Quote:Shipping issues are always on the minds of online-auction sellers. I've noticed several questions come up on eBay discussion boards about pending changes from the United States Postal Service (USPS). One issue involves dimensional rates in the proposed rate changes, and another involves shipping manifests generated by online-postage systems (SCAN forms). I checked in with the USPS to find out how these changes may affect sellers...

Dimensional Weight Pricing
One of the major initiatives of the pricing proposal includes the introduction of "dimensional-weight" (or dim weight) pricing. Dim weight pricing is based on the cubic size or dimension of the mailpiece rather than the weight, and is designed to account for packages with a large size-to-weight ratio (in other words, big packages that don't weigh much in relation to their size)...

full article: http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y206...bu0181/s02

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