Printing your own postage labels

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Does anyone do this and Is it as easy as they make it sound? is there any difference in using Paypal or EBay?
I am now at the point of sending an average 10 parcels a day so anything to save a bit of time would be great

I do - is great as uses paypal balance to pay for postage. Very quick to use, no problems except for cost of ink.

Do you just print on to your own sticky labels then? And do all PostOffices accept it as franked mail?

no I print on paper then tape on to parcels. Yes all post offices accept it - some grudgingly apparently.

Does it mean less income for the PO that accepts the item; put another way, does it mean more income if you pay over the counter for postage?

yes they lose revenue if you buy postage with paypal

So if I had a struggling local PO that I'd like to keep open, better to pay over the counter. I think some people pay weekly or monthly for postage on account with their local PO, can even deliver the items to back door & just pay later (I get the impression that's doable, not a problem I have had to solve).

Printing on paper is probably more sensible, what happens if you print and ink hits the wrong parts of the label? I wouldn't want to worry about feeding label-paper perfectly each time. And regular paper is cheap.

Fergoose, would you mind saying how much typical Paypal income net (of fees, not postage) you have each month? Nosy Q, so just ignore if you'd rather not say.

If you print and it fails you can easily reprint the label.

My paypal income? No idea.

Don't they charge you twice, how do they know you haven't used same label twice, is there a unique barcode tracked back to you & your account would get charged twice if you tried that on?