I should know the answer to this since I’ve been selling for a long time, but I really don’t ship large items all that often.
Normally when I ship in a used box, I take a black marker and mark out all the pre-existing words and bar codes and such that are on it. That seems to be what the post office wants. But this time I sold some bowls, and by the time I bubble-wrapped them to death, they needed a kinda large-ish box. So I got one that suits them perfectly. It came from my corner McDonald’s and it’s a box that they receive their little paper baskets for fries in.
The problem with this box is that the lettering on it is really kinda big, and it’s in quite a few spots. I’ve been sitting in front of the TV black-marking for like the last 15 minutes, but… If I have to mark out everything on this box, it’s going to take me an hour and use up a whole marker!
So, do I really have to do this? Would it be okay if I only marked out the bar codes? I mean, it’s not like a mail carrier is going to get confused in some way because the box says “Global Quality 6 oz Fry Carton” on it… Right? Please say I don’t have to do this… Lol. ;)
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RummageRampage Reputation: 311 See RummageRampage's booth |
Can you open it up and re-fold it inside out??!!!
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EuropeanGoodies Reputation: 1165 See EuropeanGoodies' booth |
If You HAVE to use this particular box, wrap it with a new roll of packaging paper (it’s not expensive) and You will have at least a proper outside look of the parcel.
Personally, I would not use the box, You’ve described. Maybe You can adjust and use 2 clean boxes?
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ArtistsUnion Reputation: 3676 See ArtistsUnion's booth |
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Duct tape is faster than marking out the lettering.
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redredconv Reputation: 12 See redredconv's booth |
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