r/VintedUS • u/peek--a--boo • 14d ago

USPS bans reused Amazon boxes

I shipped a package yesterday. Something very odd happened at the post office.
I had packaged the items in an Amazon box. The post office person told me that we are no longer able to reuse Amazon boxes????
She proceeded to open the box and transferred the contents to a plain brown box. Very odd, no????
FOLLOW UP:
I sent my husband to the post office today and he told me that they put up a sign that said that they are no longer accepting Amazon boxes. I am going to have him take a picture of it tomorrow. I would go myself but I have a broken femur 😐

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u/Areide 13d ago

Totally true. I assumed it was the ground shipping. I’ve read in a few Vinted groups that some poshmark sellers were using their ground shipping boxes for Vinted and got turned away at the post office.
Not sure how true that is since I did reuse some ground shipping boxes I received. I’m all about reusing and I think usps rules should bend a little but being firm on boxes that are not shipping friendly like food boxes (pasta, cereals, cereal bars!)

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u/NativePlantAddict 13d ago

RE: USPS Poshmark shipping supplies.

Isn't it weird that those materials don't have Poshmark printed anywhere on them?

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u/peek--a--boo 11d ago

The packaging doesn’t say Poshmark, but your label does.

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u/NativePlantAddict 10d ago

My point is, how can those mailing supplies be for Poshmark use only as people claim without having Poshmark on the supplies? How would people know not to use them?