Online Sellers - Here is one of the most important things to buy.

I am the member of multiple groups on Facebook that involve online selling.

Daily there are questions and discussions on shipping. 

But they all boil down to one simple piece of equipment - the scale.

Seriously you can not sell online with having some sort of scale to weigh your packages.

The Postal Service does not take kindly to your "guessing" They have equipment in place that catches these "guesses" and guess who gets dinged for it. YOU DO if your lucky, if you are unlucky the buyer gets a postage due package and you get royally screwed.

I don't care if you have shipped this way for 10 years without getting caught, stop it, you are just costing us sellers more money because then we get another increase. There is no Government bail out for the USPS - they are self funded and don't take any money from the government.

I've been selling online for 20 years, only in the last 2-3 years have a gone to a full time status. But I have always had a scale.

The scale above is mine, I can't even tell you where I bought it, I know it works, every so often I throw a 2 pound box of sugar on it to make sure it is correct. This one only goes up to 4 pounds. 

I have another heavy duty Pelouze scale that I use for bigger items. 

The moral is you can't sell online before you get yourself a scale. Unless you want to lug all your items to post office and weigh them on their scale and lug them home to print out postage. (printing postage from home is another blog entry)

GET YOUR SELF A SCALE.

Sorry, I'm not one of those bloggers who is trying to sell you something, so I don't have any recommendations for you. It is all personal taste and they work pretty much the same.

The only thing I want to do is educate a nation of online sellers and Im really tired of the post on these groups, whose problem would be solved by buying a scale.