{"id":1758,"date":"2008-06-19T20:10:42","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T00:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2008-06-20T08:54:50","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T12:54:50","slug":"find-the-cheapest-way-to-ship-that-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/19\/find-the-cheapest-way-to-ship-that-package\/","title":{"rendered":"Find the Cheapest Way to Ship that Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/shiptool.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" title=\"shiptool screenshot\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/shiptool.jpg?resize=300%2C172\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a>For those of us who sell on <a href=\"http:\/\/ads.shoppingads.com\/pagead\/link_d77108bbdf253f711bda_4ad9cd673c12ac5dd6bc59ad401622ce_www.ebay.com\" target=\"top\">eBay<\/a>, or otherwise send out oversized envelopes or other packages regularly know the hassles that can be involved in shipping you items.\u00c2\u00a0 What service to use, is first class more or less expensive than priority? Maybe I should use UPS?<\/p>\n<p>Well now there is a web-based service called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shiptool.com\/\" target=\"_self\">ShipTool<\/a> that allows you to input the ship from and ship to addresses, the size and weight of the items and several other options and will calculate the cost of various shipping methods and display them on a single screen.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Hat Tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Lifehacker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"author\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/quotes\/Alice_Kahn\/\">Alice Kahn<\/a><\/strong><\/dd>\n<\/dl>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of us who sell on eBay, or otherwise send out oversized envelopes or other packages regularly know the hassles that can be involved in shipping you items.\u00c2\u00a0 What service to use, is first class more or less expensive than priority? Maybe I should use UPS? Well now there is a web-based service called&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55,54],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebay","category-miscellaneous","wpcat-55-id","wpcat-54-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe0C4-sm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}