Wow. Have you noticed the HUGE amount of stuff for sale here lately?

Kern Dog said
For those people that live a distance away from a shipping business, the part of selling that includes shipping can often kill a deal.
I've been lucky to live 2 miles from the USPS and 4-5 miles from UPS and a FedEx.
Still, the gathering of cardboard and packing materials takes time and money. In 2012, I sold some bare fenders and grilles. I often spent a half hour wrapping and protecting a part, then the trip to the shipper to get a quote, wait for the buyer to agree to the rate (or not to agree, to ***** and whine about it) then maybe a sale is made.
I never made a penny on packaging or shipping. I priced the parts at a rate somewhere between the self-serve junkyard prices and what you'd see at a decent swap meet so it wasn't like I was living high on the hog from the money I made. The proceeds of these sales usually just got spent on furthering the cars I'm keeping.

Dang....half hour is nothing to make a shipping box safe for some parts lol

barbee6043 said
I am NOT buying a scale to weigh, so when I ship a part which I rarely do anymore, I measure it and weigh on bathroom scales and get price off the puter.
I have a 64 383 I will not ever use and to sell the son of a gun, I will have to ship it. I have spent hours getting pics of all the damn cast numbers, stampings , contacting Fastenal, etc etc and talking with the GUY half a dozen times, > Still have to get some lumber and make a cradle for it. Box the cam/lifters and take that to USPS. Haul it to Fastenal. Oh wait, the only pallet I find is not the size they want!!!!
I hate selling parts!!!!! I LOVE buying parts!!!!!

All I've ever used was a bathroom scale too but added 2 lbs. This is when I was using UPS and they started up-charging me. I used the local UPS store drop off for most of the stuff but use prepaid UPS with my weight +2 lbs and their scale was always right with mine minus the 2 lbs. So, I started adding 4 lbs to my scale weight and even that didn't matter. Fork UPS!! Haven't used them in years now. Seems to be they do not want non business shipping. I even tried to go with business shipping but since I live in a neighborhood, no can do even though I had a business name with no restrictions in my neighborhood. It's no wonder UPS isn't making money anymore......fork em!