Reselling News: USPS Rates Move Again Tomorrow and Amazon Posts Its 2027 Fee Changes

Three items today, and the first one starts costing money tomorrow morning if you leave your listings alone. Postage on eBay labels moves again, Amazon put its 2027 fee schedule on the table, and a card marketplace finally shipped the tracking product it has been promising since the summer.

USPS rates change again tomorrow, up and down

eBay says USPS is adjusting rates for Ground Advantage and Priority Mail on November 8, 2026. The announcement went up October 22 and was updated again on November 5. The wording is vague on purpose: eBay says the adjustments include both increases and decreases depending on package weight, shipping zone and destination, and points sellers at the shipping calculator rather than publishing a table.

This is the third change in about two weeks, after Ground Advantage moves on October 25 and October 30. The pace is the actual story. Pirate Ship has stopped sending routine rate change notices at all, telling customers that carriers "are starting to change rates multiple times per week," per Value Added Resource. The company says it will still flag major service changes and holiday deadlines, but the week-to-week drift is now yours to track.

What to do: calculated shipping updates itself, so your exposure is anything with a number you typed. Flat shipping charges and free-shipping listings priced off an October quote are the ones that quietly go underwater. Pull your heaviest items and anything that ships zone 7 or 8 regularly, run them through the calculator Saturday morning, and fix the flat rates before the weekend volume hits.

Amazon's 2027 fee changes are posted

Amazon told US sellers on November 5 that FBA fulfillment fees rise an average of $0.19 per unit starting January 15, 2027, which it frames as roughly 0.8 percent of the average item's selling price. As PPC Land reported, some products go up and some go down, and small standard-size items priced above $50 take a larger increase, around $0.70 on average.

The structural change lands two weeks later. On February 1, 2027 the storage utilization surcharge goes away and the aged inventory surcharge folds into a single age-based monthly storage rate. The low-inventory-level fee gets a two-sided test, applying only when your supply runs under 28 days measured across the four weeks before and the four weeks after the assessment date.

What to do: an average increase is not your increase. A flat $0.19 is a rounding error on a $60 item and a real bite on a $12 one, so if you send cheap units into FBA, re-run the per-unit math on the bottom of your catalog before you commit Q1 buying money this month.

TCGPlayer envelopes finally get free tracking

TCGPlayer turned on free tracking for single-windowed envelope orders, rolling it out from November 2 and finishing November 6. Orders of $49.99 or less going to verified domestic addresses qualify. You pick "packing slip with tracking" on the new Orders page, TCGPlayer prints a USPS Intelligent Mail barcode on the slip, and you fold it into a window envelope with the barcode showing and apply your own postage. There is no fee for it.

Read the protection clause before you relax. Coverage against a non-delivery claim kicks in only once USPS records at least one scan, and TCGPlayer says plainly that scan events are not guaranteed and that letter mail gets no final delivery scan. Value Added Resource notes this is still a step behind eBay Standard Envelope, where postage and tracking are bought together and no acceptance scan is required.

What to do: switch it on for every eligible envelope order, since free is free. Then keep your own log of which ones never picked up a scan, because those are the orders where you are still carrying the risk alone.

The common thread

None of these three is a surprise fee. All three are a published number moving while an old number sits in your listing, your spreadsheet or your buy cost. Postage drifts weekly now, Amazon reprices annually, and a shipping method you have used for years quietly changes what it protects.

Carrying a current cost per shipment, per platform, is unglamorous bookkeeping, and it is most of the gap between a profitable December and merely a busy one. Building that number and keeping it honest is what I walk people through at The Income Lab.

Hero photo of a USPS Automated Postal Center by tales of a wandering youkai, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.