selling ho trains

[astrovanman1989]

how much would you charge for shipping for a athearn blue box kit to anywhere in the us i was thinking of thining my collection i have alot of athearn blue box kits i want to sell

[sd70accsxt700]

It depends, on how heavy the package, is. You can buy one price mailers at USPS, but most of the time, depending on how heavy, its cheaper to just package and send it. If you have a scale you can go to the USPS website, and calculate shipping.

[nssd70]

$10.00 usually covers it if your shipping usps.

doug

[Crow T Robot]

Anywhere between 8.00 - 10.00 for Priority Mail. Post office can give you a rate sheet.

[GrandTrunkFan]

If your selling, whatchya got for CSX and NS freight equipment?

[astrovanman1989]

ill post latter i have to visit the post office and buy a scale if any one lives near by i will sell stuff for cash just pm me

[AARR]

Anything from the early 1950's?

[astrovanman1989]

athearn gp9 shell miw i removed the dynamic brakes $3
f7b shell undec $3

[astrovanman1989]

Anywhere between 8.00 - 10.00 for Priority Mail. Post office can give you a rate sheet.

does that include the box the chepest i found at usps is around $5

[~Z~]

I'd suggest sending them UPS... for such a light and small package, USPS doesn't seem as cheap as UPS usually is. Go to Meijer around 2am, see if you can grab a bunch of the cardboard boxes they use to unpackage goods. I've done that before when I needed a few boxes when moving before.

[CSX_CO]

I bought a postal scale off eBay. Just gives the weight. Plug into the USPS site, and you get your postage. $5.00 seems like a good estimate for stuff less than 1 lbs if it isn't going too far via USPS. You can also do first class mail for items like that (just don't put it in Priority Mail boxes, unless you turn them 'inside out') and that saves on the shipping.

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[sd70accsxt700]

USPS doesn't seem as cheap as UPS usually is.

I will have to start checking that out agian, as USPS has almost always been cheeper then UPS, also I dont know about UPS in GR, but around here UPS sucks.

[CSX_CO]

I think the cheapest UPS rate I've seen is $20. It cost me almost that much to ship 12 lbs of models from Avon to Kokomo. USPS would have been $8 or $10, but I thought they'd get there quicker via UPS. Turns out, it would have taken just as long either way.

I did ship a B&O CPL via UPS one time. $150 from Indy to South Central Wisconsin. I feel for the guy who had to deliver it. I had a female dog of a time getting it into the store to get weighed. The UPS Store People didn't like me very much, shipped a B&O CPL and a NYC Style G signal via them.

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