Usps ?

[chaase321]

Originally Posted by AdamJoshua

You can use the flat rate box but you aren't getting a flat rate price. You can go to the usps site and under shipping internationally you can easily find what it's going to cost to send a box.

If you use a small box, the old VCR tape type box you don't need the customs forms just a short form that takes .3 seconds to fill out... been there done that.

Really (about the customs form), is this something I can do online, or does it have to be hand written?

[AdamJoshua]

Originally Posted by chaase321

Really (about the customs form), is this something I can do online, or does it have to be hand written?

Nah its basically 2 questions you do it at the front in the post office, they stamp it and then give you one half as a receipt, it's nothing.

Originally Posted by chaase321

Alright cool, I don't have my flat rate boxes on me, but was thinking there were ones for domestic, and ones for international. I'm sure the ones I have would be marked for both, so that is good. Thanks!

nah same boxes just write the address on it and pay through the nose

[T.G]

Originally Posted by chaase321

Really (about the customs form), is this something I can do online, or does it have to be hand written?

If you set up an account on USPS.com, then yes, you can fill the form out on line. It will guide you through it while you are purchasing the shipping label.

You also receive a slight discount for purchasing the label/post on line.

Note though, that depending on the country and value of shipment, the forms can be different and in some cases, you will still have to stand in line to hand the package to a postal counter agent. Other times, you can just drop the posted box with it's attached CN22 form into a mailbox.

[chaase321]

Originally Posted by T.G

If you set up an account on USPS.com, then yes, you can fill the form out on line. It will guide you through it while you are purchasing the shipping label.

You also receive a slight discount for purchasing the label/post on line.

Note though, that depending on the country and value of shipment, the forms can be different and in some cases, you will still have to stand in line to hand the package to a postal counter agent. Other times, you can just drop the posted box with it's attached CN22 form into a mailbox.

I have an account, but based on what Scott said, I'll have to wait to do the form online as I don't have any of the "baggies" to put the form in.

Weight and value are both below the "extra" work thresholds this time around, but good to know

[CigarNut]

Originally Posted by chaase321

I have an account, but based on what Scott said, I'll have to wait to do the form online as I don't have any of the "baggies" to put the form in.

Weight and value are both below the "extra" work thresholds this time around, but good to know

If you are shipping the Small Flat Rate box then you do not need an envelope. It's only the larger boxes that require the envelope as they require more copies of the mailing and customs documents.

[chaase321]

Originally Posted by CigarNut

If you are shipping the Small Flat Rate box then you do not need an envelope. It's only the larger boxes that require the envelope as they require more copies of the mailing and customs documents.

Oh, cool, then I can just do it online and be done with it.

[T.G]

Originally Posted by chaase321

I have an account, but based on what Scott said, I'll have to wait to do the form online as I don't have any of the "baggies" to put the form in.

Weight and value are both below the "extra" work thresholds this time around, but good to know

CN22 isn't a multi-copy form. It's the short one about the size of a post-it note, you just tape it to the box.

1394 & 1394-A are the half-page multi-copy ones that you need the pouches for.

[CigarNut]

Originally Posted by T.G

If you set up an account on USPS.com, then yes, you can fill the form out on line. It will guide you through it while you are purchasing the shipping label.

You also receive a slight discount for purchasing the label/post on line.

Note though, that depending on the country and value of shipment, the forms can be different and in some cases, you will still have to stand in line to hand the package to a postal counter agent. Other times, you can just drop the posted box with it's attached CN22 form into a mailbox.

After some recent changes at USPS I have been able to print pre-approved forms for foreign countries and have not had to get them hand-stamped at the counter (you still need the plastic envelopes). Big win for international shippers!

[T.G]

Originally Posted by CigarNut

After some recent changes at USPS I have been able to print pre-approved forms for foreign countries and have not had to get them hand-stamped at the counter (you still need the plastic envelopes). Big win for international shippers!

I noticed that too, some of the destinations that used to require boxes to be handed across the counter no longer do, but I don't know if every destination has been given that treatment or not.