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Title: What's the cheapest way to ship 1 shirt?
Post by: blue moon on January 29, 2019, 04:24:29 PM
we are about to start sending out some samples and need to ship one shirt out at a time. It does not need to be quick, but it does need to get there. Almost everything would be within one day of ground shipping via UPS or FedEx; just in case distance matters. . .

pierre
Title: Re: What's the cheapest way to ship 1 shirt?
Post by: dirkdiggler on January 29, 2019, 04:35:44 PM
USPS
Title: Re: What's the cheapest way to ship 1 shirt?
Post by: blue moon on January 29, 2019, 04:37:27 PM
USPS

bag, envelope, box, tube . . .? First class or if it's samples can it go as media mail?

thanx,

pierre
Title: Re: What's the cheapest way to ship 1 shirt?
Post by: royster13 on January 29, 2019, 04:51:15 PM
Should be able to go in an envelope....Some folks use a food sealer to keep them flat...
Title: Re: What's the cheapest way to ship 1 shirt?
Post by: ZooCity on January 29, 2019, 04:52:31 PM
USPS has your lowest min pkg cost.  Fedex and UPS are around $7 I think for most accounts?  Maybe lower if you have a monster account but even then it's typically with a USPS partnership that they get it done.

1st class in a polybag is our go to for singles.  Sans food sealer, haha.  I kind of like that idea.... but not the part of the story where somebody gets a vacuum squished shirt.
Title: Re: What's the cheapest way to ship 1 shirt?
Post by: royster13 on January 29, 2019, 05:06:09 PM
This will save you a bit if you have time to use these....
https://www.usmintsheets.com/postage/ (https://www.usmintsheets.com/postage/)
Title: Re: What's the cheapest way to ship 1 shirt?
Post by: Sbrem on January 30, 2019, 10:53:38 AM
I just sent our first out (from an online store) via USPS and it was $3.18 for a G640L, size L. In a Uline padded envelope that was $0.52, the customer paid $5.18.

Steve
Title: Re: What's the cheapest way to ship 1 shirt?
Post by: GoWestRob on January 30, 2019, 04:55:19 PM
Tyvek envelopes are stupid expensive through office supply stores, we get our 1 shirt envelopes on Ebay by the 100s and save like 70% over the office supply piece price. 
Title: Re: What's the cheapest way to ship 1 shirt?
Post by: whitewater on January 30, 2019, 05:23:45 PM
usps click n ship.. we get the envelopes from usps for free. Its $7 and change.. we do online fulfillment this way. Quick and easy. We use there 11x15 envelopes but you may get something smaller that would work