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USPS media mail rates with delivery confirmation?
I’m starting an online bookstore and have been trying to decipher the muddle of postage rates at USPS.com, but not having much luck. What I’m trying to figure out is if Media Mail rates are charged in 1-lb. increments (as listed at the link below) or if rates are rounded off to the nearest ounce, as with other packages, whether delivery confirmation is available when a book is sent at the Media Mail rate, and if so, how much delivery confirmation would cost. I’d like to offer free shipping if books are shipped at the Media Mail rate but would like to know what sort of postage costs I’d be absorbing.
http://pe.usps.com/text/dmm100/postage.htm
Hi,
This is the page you need on the USPS site:
http://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/ratesandfees.htm
The Media Mail chart is there – here are the top rates:
1 lb. $2.13
2 lb. 2.47
3 lb 2.81
They are charged in one pound increments. They round up, so if a package weighs 1 pound and 1 ounce, it ships at the 2 pound rate.
Delivery Confirmation is available on Media Mail packages. If you go to the Post Office counter to buy Delivery Confirmation for a package it now costs .75 If you’re going to be shipping alot of packages, the best option is to sign up with one of the online postage services. You pay $9.95 per month subscription and you print your own postage from your own computer and printer. You can just drop the package into any blue mailbox with your printed postage on your label.
Or you can pay $15.95 per month for the next level up subscription. A major benefit to that one is ‘Stealth Postage’ – it prints out the metered postage but the dollar amount that you paid is not shown anywhere. So your buyer does not know how much you paid for postage.
In my opinion, Endicia.com is the best one of these kinds of services.
You can put Delivery confirmation on your package through Endicia.com for .18 A big savings over the PO counter. If you do use Endicia.com, I’d appreciate the referral. You get a free month and I get a free month for referring you if you use number 544553 (Thanks) I have used other services and find Endicia to be the best to work with, most dependable and has labels that you can design yourself. (Sorry to sound like a commercial, but it’s true) 
Good Luck to you,
:> earthmom