Invoices waste ink & 1 solution.

[cmjewels925]

[QUOTE=cornishmaid1961;1237672]

Fair comment Sarah, I can see your point when you are selling loads of small items. I suppose it's never really worried me or my customers as I sell bigger things and only a few at a time. Maybe if I sold things like stamps or coins in large quantities then it would justify using the ink and paper to print one out.

I sell mainly small items but stopped sending printed invoices with goods when the post office introduced PIP. Most of my packages just squeeze in to the large letter category; if I added an invoice I'd need to increase my postage costs because most envelopes would be too thick and would have to go as a small packet instead.

[Juliebabe25]

I prefer self adhesive labels for the envelope. You can copy and paste the buyers address very easily on eBid.

I write my address labels by hand onto stick labels.
I have a laser printer and would love to be able to print them, as it would look so much nicer, and be easier fro the postman to read.
But the labels I use have 21 labels on an A4 page.
I have sold sold 21 items in one day.

So how do you do it ?

[Saturdayat3]

I write my address labels by hand onto stick labels.
I have a laser printer and would love to be able to print them, as it would look so much nicer, and be easier fro the postman to read.
But the labels I use have 21 labels on an A4 page.
I have sold sold 21 items in one day.

So how do you do it ?

Hi Julie, Replied to your pm

[TiasTreasures]

[QUOTE=cornishmaid1961;1237672]

Fair comment Sarah, I can see your point when you are selling loads of small items. I suppose it's never really worried me or my customers as I sell bigger things and only a few at a time. Maybe if I sold things like stamps or coins in large quantities then it would justify using the ink and paper to print one out.

I don't print the invoice. instead I copy and paste the eBid ID number and the title of each item into my own preformatted packing slip and print that. I do need a printed packing list to make sure I don't overlook an item on large orders. I send the same copy, complete with tick marks, in the package.

I think a packing slip from eBid would be shorter and more useful than using the invoice (especially if they included the SKU).

[TiasTreasures]

I write my address labels by hand onto stick labels.
I have a laser printer and would love to be able to print them, as it would look so much nicer, and be easier fro the postman to read. But the labels I use have 21 labels on an A4 page.

So how do you do it ?

I stopped using the stick-labels when a clerk at the Post Office told me they sometimes come loose. He recommended that I tape them on securely.

I decided if I had to tape the label on anyway, there was no point in spending money on the commercial ones. I started using plain white paper. I print it by hand and tape it on. If I make a mistake, it's no problem, it hasn't been taped to the package yet. I can make a big label for a big package, and a small one for a letter. It's also much easier with the very long addresses that takes five or six lines to be readable. Some of them would never fit on a pregummed label. The human hand is still the most versatile tool around for a lot of tasks.

I realize a printed address label looks more professional, hand printed look personal. I even use real postage stamps whenever possible, which certainly is not "professional." It's been years since I received anything from a large company that had real stamps (as opposed to prestamped envelopes, postage printed by PayPal or the Post Office, or those little "bulk rate" squares).

[MagnetsAndHangers]

I write my address labels by hand onto stick labels.
I have a laser printer and would love to be able to print them, as it would look so much nicer, and be easier fro the postman to read.
But the labels I use have 21 labels on an A4 page.
I have sold sold 21 items in one day.

So how do you do it ?

I print all my labels - and use 21 labels on a4 page.
Get the free software from here ..... http://www.avery.co.uk/avery/en_gb/Home
(Designpro 5 lite), and just copy and paste them in.

Works a treat - i also print all my envelopes with that.
All my labels and and envelopes all have my banner on them using that.