I am doing more FBA this year but I have a love hate relationship with how their rates keep going up and for some of my products which are heavy but low priced, it isn't worth it. With this USPS postal rate increase last month where my rates went up almost 20%, I think I will have to go to FBA whole hog since the Amazon shipping reimbursement now is way out of whack with minimum postage.
Yeah when they raised usps rates that put a hurting on a nikka. I just passed the cost onto the customer in the end tho. I also found a way to finesse the self serve USPS kiosks too. I select the Priority Mail flat rate small envelope option and then use that label for bigger boxes- the legal sized envelopes or even the flat rate boxes sometimes. The label just says priority mail, it don't list the exact classification. Although I'm pretty sure the post office folks could figure it out if they look at the price. Haven't had an issue yet tho and I been using the kiosk daily for damn near a year now. I hardly even print labels from home anymore. The money you save thru printing online is negated by the money I save by shorting the kiosk.