Hi there! Just found this thread. The only thing I have used the small flatrate box for is quail eggs, and both times part of the box was crushed.
Shipping is based on the weight and the destination. It costs me only $4.80 to send 1-2 dozen quail eggs, or 6-7 bantam eggs because I use the #4 box available through the USPS website, and because they don't weigh that much.
The minimum amount charged for shipping via priority mail, flat rate or not, is $4.95 if you go to the office and have them affix the postage. Online the lowest is $4.80, and that would be for up to 1 pound, to almost anywhere.
I never use the flatrate boxes, unless by some odd chance it is in fact cheaper. Not likely. I had a box of eggs sent to California that would have been cheaper to use the large flat rate box, though it would have been like $.25. The #7 box is bigger than the large flat rate box, so that's why I use it, there is more room to ensure the eggs don't touch the sides of the box.
I use either the #4 box or the #7 box, which are both available online at www.usps.com Shipping is free on any items that are no charge via the website
On average, the #4 box is from $4.80 to $6.67 when prining postage online. The #7 can be from $6.67 to ??? depending on where it's going and how much it weighs. The most expensive one I have sent was a little over $14 dollars for a box weighing between 4 and 5 pounds that was going from Kentucky to California. Anything on the west coast from here is usually at least $10
Hope this helps
Shipping is based on the weight and the destination. It costs me only $4.80 to send 1-2 dozen quail eggs, or 6-7 bantam eggs because I use the #4 box available through the USPS website, and because they don't weigh that much.
The minimum amount charged for shipping via priority mail, flat rate or not, is $4.95 if you go to the office and have them affix the postage. Online the lowest is $4.80, and that would be for up to 1 pound, to almost anywhere.
I never use the flatrate boxes, unless by some odd chance it is in fact cheaper. Not likely. I had a box of eggs sent to California that would have been cheaper to use the large flat rate box, though it would have been like $.25. The #7 box is bigger than the large flat rate box, so that's why I use it, there is more room to ensure the eggs don't touch the sides of the box.
I use either the #4 box or the #7 box, which are both available online at www.usps.com Shipping is free on any items that are no charge via the website
On average, the #4 box is from $4.80 to $6.67 when prining postage online. The #7 can be from $6.67 to ??? depending on where it's going and how much it weighs. The most expensive one I have sent was a little over $14 dollars for a box weighing between 4 and 5 pounds that was going from Kentucky to California. Anything on the west coast from here is usually at least $10
Hope this helps
