I recently started selling makeup online for a bit of cash. I sold maybe around $200 of makeup which was great! Unfortunately, I forgot about the shipping part. I had a few problems when it came to shipping:
1. I don't have any shipping supplies
2. I don't have a printer to print out the labels
3. I actually don't even know what the shipping process is like and how to pack my stuff up
4. The nearest post office (yeah we all know the one that closes midday) are a bunch of... not nice people. WHICH MEANS I'm going to either get yelled at for not being prepared or get told to bugger off.
I decided to go to PostalAnnex+ since it says they had shipping supplies available. I walked in and I was greeted and told to wait since there were people ahead of me. The people ahead of me had all their stuff boxed up and here I am with a backpack full of stuff. Yeah you read that right, I literally stuffed $200 of makeup in a backpack hoping that they would take care of it.
At this point I'm nervous like knees weak, arms are heavy you know?
Finally, it's my turn. I walk up, open my backpack and throw everything on the counter. The only thing I say is "I need to ship all these and they are going to all different places". He asks if I have the addresses, I check my backpack and NOPE. OF COURSE, I DONT. I LEFT IT ON MY DESK. "No I don't know where it is"
I start to feel bad. I've become "one of those" customers. I worked at Target and I know about the customers that just don't have any of their crap together and they just blankly stare. Yep, that's me right now. Might as well change my name to Karen.
Surprisingly he's super nice about it, gives me pieces of papers to write the 4 addresses and organizes which makeup goes where. I kept forgetting what went where but he was listening and he put everything in the padded shipping envelopes. He bubble wrapped all the stuff that I wanted wrapped, made sure everything was in the packaging securely, asked me multiple times if everything is the way I wanted it to be packed.
And that's it folks. I came to the store with a backpack full of make up and left with tracking numbers for all four shipments. Which he also circled and highlighted for me. Don't bother going to the post office, these folks got you.
PS They said they have been the owners since around 2018? Not sure if this is important for people read more