Comments on: Print Postage on Paypal without a Money Transaction

By: Deborah

Deborah — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:26:08 +0000

I wondered if anyone had been able to do this same thing with the new Regional Rate Boxes that the postoffice is offering – I love them! and they are a huge savings to my friends and me!

By: Name (required)

Name (required) — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:14:20 +0000

thx! can’t belive it’s still working in 2011

make sure to change the /us/ for /ca/ if you’re in canada

I got different results… business rates with /ca/ and not with /us/

By: blueyedgirl

blueyedgirl — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:03:16 +0000

YOU ROCK!!Worked Nov 2011 and YAYYYYYY!!

By: MilesT

MilesT — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:19:11 +0000

This also works for the UK, just substitute /us/ in the URL for /uk/, to print postage for Royal Mail and Parcelforce.

The only downside: Some of the cheaper Royal Mail products are not available: Second Class generally, and Large Letter rate also seems to be missing (both of which give discounts over first class letter/packet rates, and standard parcel rate). Similarly, if you select a non-UK address, the list of shipping services doesn’t include the cheaper surface post or printed papers rates.

These cheaper services seem to be available on RM’s own online postage website (which doesn’t accept paypal).

Larger parcels are best quoted/purchased using one of the many UK based parcel comparison websites, some of which give discounts even on RM’s own products. (For light users, to most addresses, RM isn’t competitive between 750g and 1kg, and over 2kg, some competitors collect, others have drop-off points)

Of course, if you post lots, a franking machine will give a discount on all sevices.

By: Dave Lockman

Dave Lockman — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 02:04:40 +0000

A wonderful excellent hack! Still working as of July 29, 2011. We sell software, and occasionally have to mail out a CD to a customer. This is a great tool for our small operation. Thank you so much for sharing it!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:23:54 +0000

Sweet! May 31, 2011 and still works. Thank you thank you thank you! As far as I’m concerned, this is the single most valuable hack info I have ever found! Way to go!!

By: jo

jo — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:45:06 +0000

wow – works in uk too! thanks

By: JMS

JMS — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:04:12 +0000

Still works Feb 2011, labeled ebay though, which may be strange if you aren’t mailing an ebay package. Saves the gas and time lining up at post office if you want tracking on your mail.

By: CJ

CJ — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:07:11 +0000

Great info – thanks! Still worked Jan2011.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:11:06 +0000

Wonderful Hack, thanks for sharing. It still works in Nov 2010. I doubt that Ebay/PayPal cares if we use this circumvention – I imagine they had to restrict its use to internal transactions because of the agreement with the P.O.