Shipstation (PayPal) vs Shipstation (PayPal) - WAY different prices for different people, and vs Pirate Ship

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We were looking at pricing on a 9lb, 24x18x11" box w/ $300 insurance going from Los Angeles to Michigan today...

Basically we use eBay, and PayPal, so I logged into paypal.shipstation.com from a link on PayPal. It looked really high, so we tried a different account and ShipStation gave us totally different pricing for UPS! 3x as much on 3 day or 2 day! USPS pricing was different but not by much... So be careful... very careful, with ShipStation.

Except for my PayPal account, the other PayPal ShipStation and Pirate Ship were both cheaper for 4 day service than 7. Interesting.

Now... ShipStation is the way to go for buying Media Mail postage online. It isn't a pricing issue. It's just that the USPS site doesn't offer it online apparently (and neither does Pirate Ship).

Pirate ShipShipStation (PayPal) - another acctShipStation (PayPal) - my acctUPS Store
UPS Ground Saver 7 Days63.1966.1666.16
UPS Ground 4 Days45.2448.2198.59110.84
UPS 3 Day Select65.5468.51210.63
UPS 2 Day Air93.1196.008298.81330.00
UPS Next Day Saver 1 Day143.76146.73407.45
UPS Next Day Air 1 Day150.82153.79413.01
UPS Next Day Air Early 1 Day180.82183.79448.34
 
Now... ShipStation is the way to go for buying Media Mail postage online. It isn't a pricing issue. It's just that the USPS site doesn't offer it online apparently (and neither does Pirate Ship).

Pirate Ship lists this as an option (although I've never used it myself):

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Thanks Greg, good to know. I use ShipStation almost all of the time and I am familiar with what I usually pay for UPS and USPS there. One day I happened to be at the UPS store and I had a package without a label, so I asked them to ship it for me. The quote they gave me was 2X what I normally pay, so I declined. Went home, printed the label, and yeah it was half as much.

So with your info, and my experience at the UPS Store, I am hoping that my paypal account with ShipStation is one of the "good" ones, at least for now.
 
Thanks Greg, good to know. I use ShipStation almost all of the time and I am familiar with what I usually pay for UPS and USPS there. One day I happened to be at the UPS store and I had a package without a label, so I asked them to ship it for me. The quote they gave me was 2X what I normally pay, so I declined. Went home, printed the label, and yeah it was half as much.

So with your info, and my experience at the UPS Store, I am hoping that my paypal account with ShipStation is one of the "good" ones, at least for now.

UPS "store" is a franchise and you get absolutely HUMPED if you buy label from them.
Not to mention you can get free labels from UPS if you setup a free account.
So I use UPS account for free labels and then use shipstation to get all my shipping done, and it is almost always UPS.
 
I've started using Pirate Ship for all of my transactions here on KLOV and it's worked fine, prices seem to be the best in most cases.
 
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