Don't do enough volume to justify Stamps(dot) com, averaging ten or less sales a month these days.
A trip to the post office is SEVEN MILES (@$.56 a mile, IRS Rate), aggravation of waiting for all the clueless in line in front of me, all for ONE $9 USD sale? Plus window service (clerk) at the Post Office now requires submission of the multi-part customs forms for APO shipments also. Filled out a few of those for the American Legion.
Most of the local Window clerks know me by name, I did enough foreign shipments in past years. And usually walked in with all my paperwork in order.
And I was "On the road" dealing with family problems, easy to throw a box of my Buy it Now listings in the trunk; Didn't have the hour or two to hunt up a local Post Office, etc.
"They" (Somewhere in the echelons above) have vastly complicated the foreign shipping process. It was GREAT printing out the Foreign shipments without having to go to the window for the least couple of years, (all automated submission of the customs information), but the process did not work for the APO this time, with multiple (Irrelevant) boxes linked on the form.
21e. Yep, free trade for anyone trying to sell INTO our market, invisible (to the customer) barriers to our outgoing shipments. 80% rise in First Class Package rates for us.
