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USPS Click-N-Ship

Published May 11, 2009

After hearing from I decided to give USPS Click-N-Ship a try for both domestic and international packages. In short, it worked great, and didn’t require me to hand-fill any customs forms. Additionally, the postage costs a good bit cheaper than visiting the Post Office in person.

Now I just have to figure out the best way to handle adhering the labels / address forms to the packages. For today’s shipment (as shown above) I just printed the labels on plain paper and stuck them on with rubber cement. In the future I may consider self-adhesive full sheet labels, but that’s also a bit wasteful if I’m not printing at least two labels with each go.

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4 Comments

  1. Ben Combee
    Ben Combee May 11, 2009

    I use PayPal shipping all the time, which is very similar to click-n-ship. I just use normal invisible tape to tape around the whole edge of the label. I’ve not had any problems with that not sticking to standard shipping containers, and as long as you don’t cover the bar codes, you’re just fine.

  2. c0nsumer
    c0nsumer May 11, 2009

    Ben: I could probably do that as well. I’d just be a bit afraid of the whole label tearing if it is hit by something sharp. Having adhesive on the back tends to make tears much more localized.

  3. Kurt Mosiejczuk
    Kurt Mosiejczuk May 11, 2009

    I’ve found clear packing tape works fantastically for that sort of thing. I usually do labels by printing them on my printer, cutting them out, and then covering with packing tape.

  4. c0nsumer
    c0nsumer May 11, 2009

    Kurt: I may just do that, but my concern was with putting tape over the bar codes when the USPS directions specifically said not to. Then again, I imagine that properly applied tape still scans just fine. It’s not reflectivity that matters, but light/darn patterns.

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