Shipping Weight?

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I have not been able to figure out if I am doing this correct or not so please tell me the answer if you have experience with it...

If your package weighs 8.1 oz, do you pay for 8 oz weight or 9 oz weight? You can't put in decimals but only whole numbers.

Do you always round up? Always round down? Or do you round like you learned in school (<.5 round down, >.5 round up)? I am confused.

The difference is not a bunch but why pay more than you have to...
 
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If you UNDERPAY, they will bring it back to you to add postage.

If you OVERPAY, they will NOT refund the difference to you OR the recipient---Yes, I AM certain!!
 
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USPS will tell you to always round up and if you connect your scale to a postage program it will round them up. The problem is that a standard home use postal scale might not weigh things exactly the same every time. I think it is a little dependent on the humidity and temperature.

Ed is absolutely right that they will not refund over postage.

The saving grace is that if you are using a program like Endicia, or PayPal or eBay to print postage labels. They don't weigh them so if you make a mistake you'll likely not get the package sent back. I use steath printing on mine and don't show the actual postage on the label and the weight is in small print.
 
Smitty37 said:
The saving grace is that if you are using a program like Endicia, or PayPal or eBay to print postage labels. They don't weigh them so if you make a mistake you'll likely not get the package sent back. I use steath printing on mine and don't show the actual postage on the label and the weight is in small print.
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Doesn't the barcode on the bottom of the printout correlate somewhere to determine the shipping weight? Seems like they would check to make sure you are paying the correct postage... I would think this would be automated.

Trust but verify is the way I was trained.
 
Smitty37 said:
USPS will tell you to always round up and if you connect your scale to a postage program it will round them up. The problem is that a standard home use postal scale might not weigh things exactly the same every time. I think it is a little dependent on the humidity and temperature.
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I do a lot of shipping with printing my own postage. I bought an inexpensive digital scale at Harbor Freight that measures in grams, ounces and pounds. I have never had a package returned using it.

http://www.harborfreight.com/digital-scale-95364.html

Sharon
 
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