Ship from address questions

[KenjiMishima]

Originally Posted by alekov

Kenji, you stated that your ship from address is in a whole another state from the state in which you are actually dropping off the UPS packages headed to FBA. I wonder if that maybe an issue. I've done it within the same state, just with different cities, however, shipping FROM different state might be a problem because UPS calculates your shipment price on Amazon's software based on the SHIP FROM address entered, so shipping from another state may create a problem at the UPS store as they may claim that there was insufficient postage applied to the package?? Not sure about this, maybe someone here can chime in if they have experienced this issue before. Imagine you are shipping a package going to the Fulfillment Center located in Indiana, and your account address is in Indiana, however, you are dropping off the packages in California. The automatically calculated postage from IN to IN would be much cheaper than the actual shipping cost from California, and when you drop the package off at the UPS store in California may create a problem with the UPS there?

This is what I have considered. Maybe not exactly about the money part, but I feel amazon would have an issue with this, which is why I am more inclined to just add the send from address of my UPS store in my state on my account, so that I can minimize the issues with shipping.

[alekov]

Originally Posted by KenjiMishima

This is what I have considered. Maybe not exactly about the money part, but I feel amazon would have an issue with this, which is why I am more inclined to just add the send from address of my UPS store in my state on my account, so that I can minimize the issues with shipping.

The only potential problem I see with that is if someone else used that UPS shipping store's address on an account. You never know, it's a very small possibility but it's still there. Regarding Amazon seeing where the package was actually dropped off, I don't believe that's a problem as I have consistently been dropping off packages for FBA that have a return address in a whole another city, about 2 hours drive from me without ever having any issues.

[KenjiMishima]

Originally Posted by alekov

The only potential problem I see with that is if someone else used that UPS shipping store's address on an account. You never know, it's a very small possibility but it's still there. Regarding Amazon seeing where the package was actually dropped off, I don't believe that's a problem as I have consistently been dropping off packages for FBA that have a return address in a whole another city, about 2 hours drive from me without ever having any issues.

Even if someone else used it I dont think they would link via that. As long as the names all other info was different. Apparently 2 different people can have seller accounts in the same house so long as all the info is different.

And for your situation, are you just talking about the return address? In my case I will try to figure out what to do about that later on, but for now at least I just want to get things up and running honestly. Maybe down the line when I have enough I will pay for a ups box. Cause apparently if I wanted to use the store for returns when I request them back from fba if I got them sent there and didnt have a box then I would get charged a flat rate, which is bad since amazon sends everything in separate boxes.

[Kelly441]

Originally Posted by KenjiMishima

Even if someone else used it I dont think they would link via that. As long as the names all other info was different. Apparently 2 different people can have seller accounts in the same house so long as all the info is different.

And for your situation, are you just talking about the return address? In my case I will try to figure out what to do about that later on, but for now at least I just want to get things up and running honestly. Maybe down the line when I have enough I will pay for a ups box. Cause apparently if I wanted to use the store for returns when I request them back from fba if I got them sent there and didnt have a box then I would get charged a flat rate, which is bad since amazon sends everything in separate boxes.

Same house is same address, no way!

[KenjiMishima]

Originally Posted by Kelly441

Same house is same address, no way!

As long as all the other info is different you actually can I believe.