Free USPS shipping kit

I can't believe this hasn't been posted yet - I did a search and didn't see anything...

At a time when the business climate is making it hard to keep a lid on operating expenses, the U.S. Postal Service® can help.

We have introduced new competitive prices, new online discounts, and new volume rebates - which provide many ways to reduce your shipping costs.

Experience the savings for yourself with our Shipping Kit. It’s everything you’ll need to ship, whether you need it delivered overnight or in just a few days. You’ll get several boxes, envelopes, labels, and even special offers from our licensed postage vendors Endicia™ and Stamps.com®, each valued at $100 or more.

Whether you’re a long-term customer or have yet to give us a try, our new discounts and rebates are good news for your business. Hurry, this offer ends July 11*.

*While supplies last.

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Looks like this will work best for small businesses.

Got this in my email yesterday and signed up. I don't know what I'm really getting except boxes, but that's ok. It'll be great for selling stuff on eBay.

not all post offices have boxes, especially if you need a certain size. They have a few. They tell you to order them online. But yes, they're free always (priority and express).

mastavic said: Aren't these boxes and envelopes usually available for free at post offices anyway? Does anyone have any idea what exactly the special offers are? I am thinking about getting this for my brother, and he's already a Stamps.com member and got $80 worth of offers recently, so I'm trying to figure out if this is the same thing.

This has been posted in the past...a while ago. I wonder why it didn't show up in search. While supplies last? That's odd since they've been doing it for as long as I've been selling on eBay (9 years).

What people have to realize is that you can't use those free envelopes/boxes/labels/tape for any other shipping than priority and express as the above poster mentioned.

There are eBay sellers who take advantage of these 'freebies' and turn them inside out and ship regular or media mail. I got something last week from a seller who used the strong priority envelope and then wrapped it with plain wrapper. The is illegal and there have been regular posts on eBay forums about their abuse.

thanks

hm, i walked into my post office to mail a cpu to my brother(very small) and i had to either buy a padded envelope or a small box, i paid for the envelope(1.29) and the shipping, wish we had them free here. I guess i will get a few more than.

leprechanmonkie said: hm, i walked into my post office to mail a cpu to my brother(very small) and i had to either buy a padded envelope or a small box, i paid for the envelope(1.29) and the shipping, wish we had them free here. I guess i will get a few more than.

In the interest of trying to be more 'green', you could try to use some recycled material to mail that the next time.

And yes, don't forget, the 'free' boxes/envelopes are only for priority and express mail.

So you may have paid $1.29 for the envelope but you probably paid $1.29 less mailing it non-priority/express.

ThursdaysChild said: Looks like this will work best for small businesses.

Or avid Ebayers. eBay provides free USPS priority boxes as well.

They no longer provide tape due to people using it for other purposes (tape packages for Moving) Glad they still offer the boxes.

purpleladee said: The boxes are not available anymore in my area. They don't even supply the packing tape anymore. You have to buy your own. I get my tape from the dollar store.

Stay away from Stamps.com, I dealt with them before and it's a pain when you want to cancel the account. The kit came free but if you don't cancel within 30 days, you will be charged $15.99 for that first 30 days + 15.99 for the next month. The rate is not as great like they adverstised, you probably get the same rate if you use usps.com, but you have to pay $15.99 every month. Unless you ship out thousands items a month, don't use it. Take a look at their web site and good luck finding a way to cancel the account.

some shipping supplies are free at usps.com but I no longer see rolls of priority mail tape... anyone have yhe old link to get that item?

recieved some boxes today.ty

Thanks OP!

offer ends July 11th. They will send you a different free kit though. This is really good if you sell on eBay. Thanks for the post.