Shipping is one of the most frustrating areas for online sellers (even if you've been doing this for a while). The good news is it doesn't have to be. That's what this book is all about. It's a short, easy to understand guide, that will help you get over your shipping phobias and help you to start packaging and shipping your items like a pro. By the time you're done reading this book you'll have a better understanding of - 1. How to store items after you post them for sale so they are both easy to find and safe from possible damage. 2. What your shipping options are. We'll cover shipping with the United States Postal Service (USPS), Federal Express (Fed Ex), common carriers, and home pickup. 3. What services you need to use to comply with your selling venue's rules. Examples of this are delivery confirmation, signature delivery, and miscellaneous tracking options. 4. How to use eBay and PayPal shipping solutions to print your labels. We'll discuss third party shipping solutions such as Stamps.com and Endica, and look at why you may want to use them. Finally, we'll tackle international shipping. You'll learn what's required to sell internationally, how to fill out customs forms, how to set customer delivery expectations, and how to simplify international shipping. You should be able to read this short guide in under and hour, and immediately use the information you learn to ship smarter, quicker, and less expensively. Hey everybody, my name is Nick Vulich. I just finished writing my newest book -  The Ogre in the Basement: Strange Tales From the 1960s and 1970s . It is an off-kilter look at growing up as a Baby Boomer. If you are from that era, read the book. You will let out a sigh of relief, and scream AAH! Now, I get it."   The  Ogre in the Basement  was the most fun I ever had writing.    I started writing about five years ago, and let me tell; it has been more therapeutic than five years on a psychiatrist's couch. Most of my books offer short, easy to read solutions to life's everyday problems. My bestsellers focus on e-commerce- How to sell on eBay, Amazon, Fiverr, and Etsy. Most recently, I have recently transitioned from writing about e-commerce to one of my real passions -  History . Hands down,  Shot All to Hell  is my favorite of all the books I have written, so far.    As a kid, I spent every free moment reading western magazines.  RealWest. Westerner. Frontier West. Treasure Times . You name a magazine that carried stories about the old west, badmen, lawmen, and gunfighters, and I read it.   My life's dream was to write for those magazines. I never did. Instead, I wrote one of the go-to books on the topic.How cool is that?   Like everything else in my life, I have developed some crazy writing habits. I write best when I am laid back in the recliner watching TV and sipping on Diet Coke. Just to put it out there -  Psych, Family Guy, American Dad , and the  Simpson's  set the backdrop for my writing. Sometimes Islip in an occasional episode of  Monk  or  Two and a Half Men.    I am a firm believer in that old saying: Laughter is the best medicine.If you cannot laugh at yourself, you are probably a grumpy old man or on your way to becoming one.   Shame on you!   If you are feeling down, my prescription is to grab a Diet Coke, a dose of your favorite dessert, sit back, and watch a couple of hours of FOX cartoons. Those shows will reboot your funny bone, and get you to see life as it is - one crazy ride.   My favorite books are the historical novels of Kenneth Roberts written back in the thirties and forties -  Arundel, Northwest Passage, Boon Island , and  Lydia Bailey . His stories are historically accurate, and totally absorbing no matter how many times you read them. Special thanks go out to my friend Mike, for introducing me to J. R. R. Tolkien and the  Lord of the Rings  trilogy way back in my college days.I recommend this series to everyone. Right now my focus is history.   I have got so many ideas rolling around in my head.  1861: Prelude to CivilWar .  We Might Have Been Kings: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and the American Revolution . And, so many more.   The problem is deciding which book to write first.   People often ask me for advice on how they can get started writing. I tell them to read everything you can get your hands on. Write as much as you can, and don't limit yourself to one subject or genre. More importantly, don't be afraid to fail. Not every book is going to be a success. Some of them are going to sit there for six months, or a year before they take off and start selling. Some are going to emerge stillborn.   It is the nature of the beast.   That is a little bit about me, what books and authors have influenced me, and which direction I am headed with my new material.   As always, it has been a pleasure. Short easy to read solutions to your eCommerce problems.  Most of my books can be read in under an hour. The information in them