USPS Padded flat rate envelopes

[Midwest-M]

This has been brought up before, but nothing gets done about it.

When printing a shipping label through paypal, there is no option for the padded flat-rate envelope, just the standard flat rate envelope.  Both use different postage.  The option NEEDS to be there.  I ship about 1400 of those envelopes a year, and some are starting to come back because of insufficient postage.  I shouldn't have to add additional postage on my own, the option to use that type of envelope should be there.

I've called and written paypal and get the same thing every time...USPS won't allow them to do it.  But....you have the option if you print a label off of eBay.    We all know that eBay and Paypal are one entity now.

FIX THIS...the shipping options haven't changed in years, when so much commerce is online there is zero reason there shouldn't be a whole menu of USPS shipping options.  

[jrodri210]

I know this isn't the best answer but you can print a label from the USPS.com Click N Ship and get a discounted rate with the online rate of 5.70 vs 5.95 retail 

[snowshoe]

That's a good work around suggestion and you can still enter tracking info.  (Enhancements and or suggestions to the PayPal system never happen overnight anyway, more like years.)

[Midwest-M]

I understand that I can work around it, but if I have to do that 1400+ times a year that's a lot of time lost.  Time lost doing something that should be offered in the first place.  All of these labels are coming from paypal transactions, if they weren't I wouldn't bother using their shipping interface. 

I can understand why there is no urgency to change when they have little to no competition, but I'm not the only person out there that has an issue with this.  I'd also to expect to fall on deaf ears if I only made a few sales a year, but if I'm paying close to $4k/year in fees and complaining monthly then something should be changed.  

I'm not asking them to send a spaceship to another galaxy, just keep up with the times and give your customers what they need.

[snowshoe]

There's two other options for gripes and/or suggestions.  PayPal has a FaceBook page and nother way to submit suggestions or changes is to use the Site Feedback link from within your PayPay Account. The link is on every page. There's a survey question to answer and text box below. Use the text box to submit your suggestion or change. Seems they do have folks that look at the submissions verses posting via the community forum.

[things4u2]

They also don't have Priority A and B boxes. I have started using a lot of them lately. They have them also on ebay. The problem I have with ebay's bulk shipping is there is no way to get the labels in order as an item was sold. It they would add the 'Record' off the sold pages then a person could sort them in order as sold minute by minute. Otherwise the labels come out mixed up and you have to sort thru all of them to find the right label. They have a worthless link also of asking how to improve the site that I have asked probably 5 times in the last couple months. If these people had to use these sections on a daily basis maybe they would put the coffee cups down and fix it.

I also use probably 700 padded flat rate envelopes that on ebay costs $5.35. And your right about postage due on the other end which can easily create unwanted feedback.