Overview
There are a few broad categories of charges associated with shipping and EasyPost, this article provides more context to each of these fees.
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Shipping Label - Carrier Costs
USPS is pre-paid through your EasyPost account balance. As such, you'll want to make sure you keep enough funds in your account to cover any shipping label charges associated with using USPS.
For shipments through other carriers like FedEx and UPS, the carrier will bill you directly. More information on this can be found here.
Shipping Label - EasyPost Fees
The first 10,000 packages sent in a month do not have any additional fees - all you pay is the price of the shipping label. After that, EasyPost applies a 5 cent charge per label.
If you operate at a very high volume, you can negotiate this rate with EasyPost directly as part of a custom plan.
For more information, please refer to the EasyPost Billing FAQ.
Other EasyPost Fees
Address Verification Fee
For each label you print, you get one free address verification. For any additional address verifications needed there is a 1 cent fee per domestic verification and a 3 cent fee per international verification.
Each time Upright Lister retrieves shipping rates for a new address, Lister performs an address verification. So if you ship several orders to "Bob Jones, 123 Oak Street", Lister only needs 1 address verification. If Bob gets a new address and you fulfill another order for Bob, we perform another address verification because it's a new address.
This should not result in any address verification fees on your account. That said, if you open the New Shipment page in Lister and repeatedly change the address fields you may be charged for each time you change the name or address as additional address verifications would need to be processed. As such, we recommend avoiding experimenting with the recipient address field in Lister.
Creating Shipments Fees
Lister automatically refreshes the rates for each carrier anytime you change the shipping form. That means when fields like shipping weight, destination, or package size are changed, Lister gets up-to-date rate information.
Changing the form to update the rates has a cost. Do this too much across many shipments, and EasyPost will charge you an extra fee. The majority of your shipments won't incur this small fee. For more information, please read their billing documentation linked here.
EasyPost Insurance for Non-US Based Upright Lister Clients
If you are based outside of the US, package insurance is handled via EasyPost.
If you are based in the US, package insurance is provided by Shipsurance.
All packages valued at <$100 are insured for free by the carrier (some exclusions may apply). For any orders worth >$100 a small fee applies if you would like to insure the package.
Typically EasyPost charges 1% of the declared value of the package. With Lister, however, you'll get a special rate of 0.8% of the declared value of the package. This means if you are shipping a package worth $500 you would pay $4 to insure it through EasyPost.
You may insure any product/order worth $15,000 or less and there are no product category limitations to this policy. This help article walks through how to add insurance to a package through Lister.
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