What are your other recent experiences using standard envelopes to ship trading cards? Is the only option is to charge the 3oz price of $1.05? but then ebay would be charging more than what USPS is. What gives? What are my options here? USPS is too inconsistent in delivering ebay standard envelopes and ebay does not have an option to add a non-machinable surcharge. AND I received trading cards in the ebay semi-rigid cardboard envelop that are much more thick/rigid than the plain white envelopes I am using. HOWEVER I shipped other trading cards, using the same method, last month that were delivered no problem. Each had 2 card in a top loader (per ebays guidance) and half a sheet of paper as the packing slip.īoth envelopes were returned back to me stating I need to pay the 'non-machinable' surcharge of $0.42, totaling $0.99 in postage. Both envelopes are under 1oz, less that 1/4in thick, and within the size limits. Recently I shipped 2 plain white envelopes using ebay standard envelope for $0.57 each to ship my trading cards. I'm currently awaiting 10 cards purchased and mailed to me using eBay standard envelopes, dating back to April 16th.Im going increasingly frustrated using ebay standard envelope to ship my trading cards. eBay isn't much better themselves, but the PO system despises any type of change, ever. The biggest flaw with eBay's standard envelopes is that they require the PO to do their job. And as far as the 90 degree thing, and the PO saying it can't be done, new credit cards are sent in envelopes in the mail all the time, and those wouldn't survive a 90 degree bend either! (Unless there is just a disgruntled post master.) They should just put the envelopes with all the other regular envelope mail. I think the main issue occurs at the distribution center, just with them getting rejected for random reasons. All of the cards I receive sent via eBay standard envelope are in top loaders, and they seem to pass though everything ok. (Yet, anyway!) I actually prefer sellers to send me cards this way, as I've received many more damaged cards sent in bubble mailers. įor what it is worth, I have not received any damaged cards sent via eBay standard envelope, nor have I had anyone say theirs arrived damaged that I sold. I asked point blank HOW am I supposed to ship these cards in an envelope that MUST be bendable using ebays standard envelope process? Im trying desperately to get answers before my next round of sales goes through because this is nightmare fuel if im selling hundreds of cards each week! Watch the video and tell me what im supposed to do now.

The problem the PO had was that they said a letter must be passed through a snake like system that MUST allow the envelope to bend at a maximum 90 degrees so that is a huge fail! I called eBay support and was turned around in circles 2 times about non issues that had NOTHING to do with the problem. Now I met ALL criteria via the ebay rules its under 3 ounces its in a standard letter size envelope and its under 1/4 inch thick.

So I called the local PO and was lectured about how eBay has been screwing the PO over for years and that sending sports cards this way is NOT ALLOWED! I have video I will post here as well so you can see my interaction with the post master.

I received 9 envelops back in my post today with POSTAGE DUE and a letter from the post master stating, 'THESE ARE PACKAGES NOT ENVELOPES' To my shock i panicked and thought maybe they were heavier than I thought so i threw them on my scale and to my surprise the heaviest package was 1.8 ounces. The monster problem of all problems arose today. People receiving bent sports cards have been the biggest issue. Ive been shipping sports cards using the aforementioned way for the last few months with minor issues here and there. Im going to post alot of information here and ask for help from the community and eBay.

Ebay standard shipping envelope