Shoestring Theory » UPS http://shoestringtheory.com Currently documenting the house that is eating our lives, we will return to regularly scheduled programming in a couple of more months Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:25:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 TotD: Print shipping labels through PayPal for orders without a PayPal payment http://shoestringtheory.com/2008/03/18/totd-print-shipping-labels-through-paypal-for-orders-without-a-paypal-payment/ http://shoestringtheory.com/2008/03/18/totd-print-shipping-labels-through-paypal-for-orders-without-a-paypal-payment/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:30:50 +0000 thetheorist http://shoestringtheory.com/2008/03/18/totd-print-shipping-labels-through-paypal-for-orders-without-a-paypal-payment/ Tip of the Day

Occasionally, you may need to print labels for shipments that weren’t paid for through PayPal or purchased through eBay. PayPal Multiorder Shipping allows you to create new United States Postal Service labels, but not UPS. It’s also a hassle, slower than the normal PayPal shipping screen, and can’t print some types of labels. Sure, you could just go to USPS.com or UPS.com, but I find printing labels through PayPal to be significantly faster than using either individual site.

There is an easy solution though. Just log into your PayPal account and then enter the following address.

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_ship-now

This will bring up the normal shipping label creation screen for PayPal, but without any information filled in and not affiliated with any payment. Presto, easy label creation.

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*This applies to US domestic transactions that are shipped by USPS or FedEx and either (i) use PayPal shipping labels to ship items or (ii) upload tracking information to PayPal via the transaction details page. (Bold font added for emphasis -ed)

Why are USPS and FedEx specifically named, but no other companies are (especially UPS)? UPS labels can be printed through PayPal, but FedEx labels can’t. Is this a typo, an omission or something else? I’m submitting a media request to eBay (my first!), so we’ll see if we can get clarification on this.

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