ship on certain days of the week only?

[ModernHermine]

I wonder if other people pick a day or two to ship on? Not that I am complaining that I have to ship items, I just wonder if I picked only two days a week to do a shipment if it would save more time in the end. I feel like I am at the post office a lot more then I want to be?

And what days do you ship? or do you ship as people order? I'm doing that now within a day, I ship out.

[seemomster]

Normally I ship as people order....but I got a purchase late Friday afternoon and the buyer wanted a modification...and there is no way in HADES I'm going near the PO tomorrow. ;^) So the necklace won't go out until Tuesday...

[seemomster]

(If I hadn't run out of priority mail boxes I wouldn't be going to the PO at ALL.)

[Former_Member]

I also usually ship as people order (of course, I have them come pick it up so I don't have to go anywhere) but there is a store that I buy from that only ships certain days.

[Former_Member]

Ship as folks order.

Use stamps.com...so I can package them up, label and send them a tracking notice in moments. Then I either hand them to mailman, drop in a blue box/drop box. pending what else is going on. (just dont hand them to spouse learned that lesson already)

[HildesJewelry]

I ship as people order. Never on Sundays, though ;:)

[JewelrybyJakemi]

I recently switched over to Paypal shipping so I usually ship the day after an item is ordered because it is so easy (my packages are small). Before using paypal I only went to the post office a couple days per week and never had a problem with it. Of course I would make an extra trip if a customer seemed anxious about the time frame.

[Former_Member]

I try and ship no later than the next business day. Because my items can ship First Class Mail and I use Paypal shipping I can just put my packages in my mailbox for pickup or drop in a box. I think I will owe my postal carrier a little something at Christmas this year if my sales pick up! :-)

[BeadsandmorebyYashma]

I ordered once from overseas shop which had only one day a week for shipping international orders. I ordered on Tuesday and the order was shipped on Saturday as a result it took a week longer to arrive.

I ship as I get orders , so it is every day. I try to get everything ready by 14.30 and send the orders off just before I pick up the kids after school.Sometimes I also ship on Saturdays but as the work load during the week has been steadily increasing, most weekends are my days off now.

[Former_Member]

When I am lucky enough to ship, it is on Tuesday or Saturday due to being unable to get out by myself and those are the days off of my hubby.

[Former_Member]

when i get a sale i usually ship within the next day or if its a weekend it would get done on the monday :)

[Grandmasandeze]

It's been so long since I've had an order, if I get one, I'm headed straight to the Post Office.

[ModernHermine]

Ohh goodness looks like I will stick with what I am doing now. I thought stamps.com cost money? I could do the pay-pal thing but the mail carries walk in my neighborhood I would feel bad giving them a ton of heavy boxes and nervous too I ship glass... blahhhh

[Untwistedsister]

Why don't you call you post office and see if you can arrange for pickup if you have heavy boxes to ship. I think if you use paypal & have at least 1 priority you can request a pickup.

My things are small enough that they go into a padded envelope and then my mailbox and are picked up with my regular curbside mail, except for international which must be brought to the post office.

[seemomster]

Oh, lawd---The Husband just told me that Tax day is actually TUESDAY---guess I'll brave the PO tomorrow AM. Think of me!

[TreasuresOfGrace]

I try to ship the next day, using PayPal, for domestic but only on Saturday for international since I have a full time day job and currently can't get to the post office until Saturday.

[Former_Member]

I usually ship 1 - 2 days after payment.
If someone purchases on a friday, which is usually thursday where they are, i cannot ship till monday as our post offices arnt open over the weekend :/

I would love it if i had designated days to ship, but as Valentina said above, that would mean another week people have to wait seeing as i live in Australia, and most of my sales are too the U.S.

[Former_Member]

I usually ship next day:)

[birdmom9726]

I think that if someone picked my shop out of the thousands in Etsy, and purchased something and paid for it promptly (as the majority of my buyers do), then as my part in the deal I not only owe them their merchandise, but I owe them prompt shipping as well. That is part of my customer service. I always ship the next business day, including Saturday. But that's strictly my choice, and it may be different for someone who has a lot more sales than I do. I would like to think that if I am ever fortunate enough to have a lot of sales, I would still feel the same obligation. But everyone is different and what works for me may not work for someone else.

[HappyDappyBits]

I ship Domestic orders the following morning for orders placed before 12 in the afternoon Eastern time and my fiance drops them in the mailbox in front of the post office before the post office opens. If an order comes in after 12 and it's something I have stock for it will go out the next morning as well (I found it gets processed faster this way vs dropping it off by my apartment before the last pick-up at 5pm the same day). Otherwise it will be sent the following morning. I ship International orders on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

I found when I first started there was a lot of interupting of my day and not efficient use of time so I try to stick to my schedule as best as possible. :)

During Holidays I get orders out as quickly as possible, usually all orders from a given day will go out next morning. Also, if an order comes in on Saturday morning it's usually shipped the same day, especially if it's International so it won't have to wait till Tuesday.

[PebbleCreekStudio]

I ship daily, sometimes twice a day. :)

[sherischart]

Sarah, too cute your pics and merchandise. Sweet and the name too!

I'm shipping tomorrow and nervous as ever. 36x48x3 painting.
I won't sleep till it gets there.
And I like some will not ship on a weekend. It just sits and
gets filtered through main office here and likes to never leave
the state. Otherwise, I ship asap.

[ModernHermine]

Yeah I find myself going to the post office several times a week. I really love selling things in person ahahah... @ sheri I would be nervous too I can't image what that cost to ship!! Well at least it's good to know I am not the only one shipping things all week.

[Former_Member]

I only ship Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday [and Thursdays for southern California orders] - no reason to have yummy baked goods sit in USPS offices for an entire weekend. That's one day of freshness wasted!

[Former_Member]

I ship as people order. I've only had 5 sales and the only one that required me to physically go inside the P.O. was an international sale. My packages are small enough that I can leave them out for my mailman to pick up or drop them in the mailbox in front of the P.O. on my way to work. It's stated in my policies that I ship in 1-2 business days. Tues. & Wed. are hectic for me so if I get a sale on one of those days it could take an extra day for me to mail it out.