My Amazon FBA Journey

First when trying to ship to amazon that made things difficult was not know what box size to have on hand or if I could reuse a Walmart box. So I went through the shipping process on the Amazon sellers website. I was sending in 49 items. They decided to split that into  3 shipments, two in the same State. The whole thing seems ridiculous. But I went on and packed all of my items into different size boxes. Even had to resize one the best I could. Once done I weighed each one and measured them. Each shipment cost around five dollars. With Amazon already charger massive fees for selling on their platform I found this ridiculous. Especially since one of my boxes was 1lb  and they were charging as if it was 5lb and another box was 5lb and the charge was set to 29lb. The shire thing was complete insanity to me, but I trudged on.  I had a larger box that would fit everything into it. So, I calculated the size and the weight. I did an estimate for UPS which came out to around ...

The best way to manage labels on Amazon is to put the Amazon label over the original UPC. These labels are not supposed to be printed with an inkjet printer. This was a another set back for me as I don't have the recommended Laser printer. You can also use a Thermal Printer, but i'm going to go ahead and go with the more common laser printer. Apparently you can get free shipping labels from UPS. Going to have to see if this is true. Update 1: You can get supplies from UPS for Free: Many different labels. So far it looks like I can get thermal labels possibly for bar codes but not laser printer labels for bar codes. They also offer boxes, bags and envelops for free. Update 2: Found this guy interesting, dumpster diving for shipping supplies. Update 3: Since UPS gives free thermal labels and people are saying how great they are because you don't need toner and you can print labels 1 at a time, I decided to get the Thermal Printer.