Paypal Shipping?

Question

Hello, I just sold my first item through ebay and now I need to ship it. Paypal has brought me to UPS - Create Your Shipping Label, and it looks like all the sipping information is there. So the questions go as follow:

1. do you need the dimensions of the box or the item?

2. I had to order a box from ups and It won't be here until tommarow, so I need to ship it out tommarow. So I can't create my label because I don't have the dimensions of the box yet?

3. and is this Create, purchase, and print UPS shipping labels from your PayPal account, Complete the form below to prepare your shipping labels, a way to pay for the shipping? and when the labels are printed, i just tape em on and take the package to a ups dropbox?

4. I feel bad making this guy wait a day to ship the item, is it ok to wait a day or so to ship?

Answer 1

I've shipped a lot of stuff via UPS and never worried about the dimensions unless the box was big enough to be close to the maximum UPS would take.  Check the link below.  It goes to a site that gives the weight and size limits for UPS.  The total dimensions have to be less than 165 inches and shorter than 108 inches.  If you're looking at a typical shipping size of something like 12 X 24 X 18 or anything like that, don't worry about the dimensions.  UPS won't evev look twice at it.  You don't need a UPS box.  You can pack it in about any box you want.  Just find a box that's big enough and you're set.