Paypal label and USPS pickup

Just printed my first USPS postage paid label thru Paypal. Does this
method automatically arrange a USPS carrier pickup?

I had to put in a date to be shipped or picked up? But what if I
intend to take it to the PO myself?

Not that I want to take it to the PO myself, but what if I did?

Big Crunch <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:

> Just printed my first USPS postage paid label thru Paypal. Does this
> method automatically arrange a USPS carrier pickup?

No, unless they have some tic-box for that, and
you selected it. If there is, and you did, then an email
is sent to the postmaster at the origination zip, who
is then supposed to instruction the routeperson to
make the pickup. This is not always a reliable process.

I don't recall a pick-up option in the PP process, but
then I've never been interested in using it, and they
may have added something since I last shipped.

> I had to put in a date to be shipped or picked up?

Yep, and theoretically you must tender it to the USPS
on that date, or cancel the label through PayPal and
print a new one.

> But what if I intend to take it to the PO myself?

No problem as long as it's the PO at the origination zip
code you specified.

> Not that I want to take it to the PO myself, ...

By the way, using pre-paid web-printed postage makes
you a "known shipper" to the USPS, and you can drop
the parcel in a box (at the origination zip), even if exceeds
the 16oz "must present at counter" threshold. Of course,
it has to fit into the box.

--
Regards, Bob Niland mailto:name@ispname.tld
http://www.access-one.com/rjn email4rjn AT yahoo DOT com
NOT speaking for any employer, client or Internet Service Provider.

rjn wrote:
> Big Crunch <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>> Just printed my first USPS postage paid label thru Paypal. Does this
>> method automatically arrange a USPS carrier pickup?
>
> No, unless they have some tic-box for that, and
> you selected it. If there is, and you did, then an email
> is sent to the postmaster at the origination zip, who
> is then supposed to instruction the routeperson to
> make the pickup. This is not always a reliable process.
>
> I don't recall a pick-up option in the PP process, but
> then I've never been interested in using it, and they
> may have added something since I last shipped.
>
>> I had to put in a date to be shipped or picked up?
>
> Yep, and theoretically you must tender it to the USPS
> on that date, or cancel the label through PayPal and
> print a new one.
>
>> But what if I intend to take it to the PO myself?
>
> No problem as long as it's the PO at the origination zip
> code you specified.
>
>> Not that I want to take it to the PO myself, ...
>
> By the way, using pre-paid web-printed postage makes
> you a "known shipper" to the USPS, and you can drop
> the parcel in a box (at the origination zip), even if exceeds
> the 16oz "must present at counter" threshold. Of course,
> it has to fit into the box.
>
> --
> Regards, Bob Niland mailto:name@ispname.tld
> http://www.access-one.com/rjn email4rjn AT yahoo DOT com
> NOT speaking for any employer, client or Internet Service Provider.
>
> But what if I intend to take it to the PO myself?

No problem as long as it's the PO at the origination zip
code you specified.

+++++++++++++++++
ANY US POST OFFICE
leave it at the counter, even when all counters are "OUT TO LUNCH"

On Apr 29, 11:36�am, Big Crunch <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
> Just printed my first USPS postage paid label thru Paypal. *Does this
> method automatically arrange a USPS carrier pickup?
>
> I had to put in a date to be shipped or picked up? *But what if I
> intend to take it to the PO myself?
>
> Not that I want to take it to the PO myself, but what if I did?

JUST A NOTE - you get a DC number when you use PP but it is not in
the PO system unless you take it to the window of the PO and get them
to enter it - if you want your buyers to track the shipment you have
to take it to the window and get it entered


Don't just hand it to them - make sure they scan it right then - as I
understand it the PO employee is not required to do that but the good
ones will

rjn wrote:
[USPS Pickup]

> ...an email
> is sent to the postmaster at the origination zip, who
> is then supposed to instruction the routeperson to
> make the pickup. This is not always a reliable process.

Handwritten note in my mailbox -
"Please pickup metered pkgs at the front door-
thanks, Craig - 5526"

Works like a charm. I set my outgoing pkgs in one of
those plasticized carriers that the USPS gives me
and they magically disappear around 1300 hrs each day
and are replaced by incoming mail.

Lumpy
--
Oooh!
http://www.CraigAndHeather.org

howard wrote:
> rjn wrote:
>> Big Crunch <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
....
>>
> > But what if I intend to take it to the PO myself?
>
> No problem as long as it's the PO at the origination zip
> code you specified.
>
> +++++++++++++++++
> ANY US POST OFFICE
> leave it at the counter, even when all counters are "OUT TO LUNCH"

I agree. Don't even have to wait for lunch... all my labeled/paid
packages are ZIP'd for home & I drop them off all over the city -
wherever I happen to be that day.

Rob

caroball <carob...@aol.com> wrote:

> JUST A NOTE - you get a DC number when you use PP but it is not in
> the PO system unless you take it to the window of the PO and get them
> to enter it - if you want your buyers to track the shipment you have
> to take it to the window and get it entered
>
> Don't just hand it to them - make sure they scan it right then - as I
> understand it the PO employee is not required to do that but the good
> ones will

The DC number is logged in the USPS system within minutes
or hours of being issued. It shows up as the useless ESIR
record until an enroute scan occurs.

Historically, local POs might refuse to make an acceptance
scan. This may be changing as the USPS attempts to make
DC real tracking. Ask before assuming.

--
Regards, Bob Niland mailto:name@ispname.tld
http://www.access-one.com/rjn email4rjn AT yahoo DOT com
NOT speaking for any employer, client or Internet Service Provider.

"howard" <inhockdeep@peakdotorg> wrote in message
news:AqudnRIbVd_2TanbnZ2dnUVZ_uzinZ2d@scnresearch. com...
> rjn wrote:
>> Big Crunch <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Just printed my first USPS postage paid label thru Paypal. Does this
>>> method automatically arrange a USPS carrier pickup?
>>
>> No, unless they have some tic-box for that, and
>> you selected it. If there is, and you did, then an email
>> is sent to the postmaster at the origination zip, who
>> is then supposed to instruction the routeperson to
>> make the pickup. This is not always a reliable process.
>>
>> I don't recall a pick-up option in the PP process, but
>> then I've never been interested in using it, and they
>> may have added something since I last shipped.
>>
>>> I had to put in a date to be shipped or picked up?
>>
>> Yep, and theoretically you must tender it to the USPS
>> on that date, or cancel the label through PayPal and
>> print a new one.
>>
>>> But what if I intend to take it to the PO myself?
>>
>> No problem as long as it's the PO at the origination zip
>> code you specified.
>>
>>> Not that I want to take it to the PO myself, ...
>>
>> By the way, using pre-paid web-printed postage makes
>> you a "known shipper" to the USPS, and you can drop
>> the parcel in a box (at the origination zip), even if exceeds
>> the 16oz "must present at counter" threshold. Of course,
>> it has to fit into the box.
>>
>> --
>> Regards, Bob Niland mailto:name@ispname.tld
>> http://www.access-one.com/rjn email4rjn AT yahoo DOT com
>> NOT speaking for any employer, client or Internet Service Provider.
>> But what if I intend to take it to the PO myself?
>
> No problem as long as it's the PO at the origination zip
> code you specified.

Untrue. Not all zip codes have Post Offices.

I've asked, and was told that as long as you don't drop it
off in a zone *further* from what you paid for, it's really
not a problem. It all goes into a giant container for sorting.

Now....if the USPS ever does origination scanning, it'll be
an issue. Maybe.

Kris
You learn to ask, when you're in Arizona and forget to
mail it from Utah

rjn:

>Historically, local POs might refuse to make an acceptance
>scan. This may be changing as the USPS attempts to make
>DC real tracking. Ask before assuming.

Use Click-N-Ship and print the ScanForm. Rules say they gotta scan it.

On Apr 29, 1:10?pm, "BrotherBart"
<BrotherB...@donwantnostinkingmail.net> wrote:
> rjn:
>
> >Historically, local POs might refuse to make an acceptance
> >scan. This may be changing as the USPS attempts to make
> >DC real tracking. Ask before assuming.
>
> Use Click-N-Ship and print the ScanForm. Rules say they gotta scan it.

TRY TO use first class or parcel post at clicknship - they will not
take it - PO is greedy and try to force you into priority mail -
don't even thing about media mail

Go thru PP - it's easy & quick