Have never been turned away or told I can’t do this. (I sure wish I had ordered more of them when they were available!!!) I black out the “REGIONAL” references on the boxes and use them the same as any other Priority Mail box I am shipping.

I have been using the large “C” regional boxes, which service USPS discontinued months ago.

We’ll update this article when we learn more – and let us know if you have other questions related to the USPS rate changes going into effect in January. We also asked if sellers could continue to use those boxes after Janufor regular Priority Mail shipments until they run out of stock. We sent an inquiry to USPS after getting the reader’s question on Sunday to find out if it planned to offer the same-sized box for shippers for Priority Mail shipments. It was just a year ago that the USPS went to the trouble of reducing the dimensions of the Priority Mail Regional Rate Box. Obviously rates have changed a lot since then, but it showed how shippers could save when using them for certain shipments. In 2011, and ShipRush executives provided EcommerceBytes with some rules of thumb on using the regional boxes. The page shows images along with the boxes’ dimensions. The USPS describes PM Regional Rate boxes, which are zone based (not flat-rate) on its website. She was referring to our report in Thursday’s AuctionBytes Blog about new rates going into effect in January for US Postal Service “competitive” services, which confirmed our reporting from September that USPS was planning to eliminate Priority Mail Regional Rate in January. An online seller asked us, “Since USPS will be discontinuing the Regional boxes, I would like to know if they will continue with those SIZE boxes even if they do not have regional pricing.”

Is priority mail the same as flat rate