- Today, I'm gonna save you more money
on holiday shipping than anyone else in the country
as I share these secrets and a freebee.
(instrumental music)
I'm gonna put these down though.
Hi, I'm the YouTube deal guy Matt Granite.
You guys know I'm here for you every day
to save you more money than anyone else in the country.
And that I also give away more freebees
than anyone else on YouTube.
And this is actually one of the most important
rooms many of you have never seen.
At the end of all of the unboxings
and the tech reviews that you're used to seeing right here,
I give away the items.
And this is actually where we ship those items from.
I box them up, I send them out at my own expense.
I'm also giving away a free 50 dollar
Amazon gift card today at the end of the video.
It'll hopefully give one of the many subscribers
right now a break with their holiday shipping expenses.
And I wanna remind you that obviously
USPS is not sponsoring this video or paying me
to talk about them.
In fact, they're probably not gonna
be happy with the insight I share.
But, my job is to save you money.
Now I've spent a lot of time inside
the UPS and the FedEx hubs.
In fact, not too long ago, I got to watch
many of the shipping practices employed
to get your gifts moving.
One big thing that we notice every year
is a lot of people will take a FedEx box
and then put a USPS shipping label
on it or UPS just because you happen
to have this box available.
In most cases, that will result in
your package not being delivered.
Another thing which I guess is
just something I see from a lot of people,
not necessarily subscribers, is that
every year, people will order the items
from the store, in particular Amazon.
You get it shipped to yourself with your Prime membership.
Then you box it up or you wrap it,
and then you send it out again.
One of the easiest things to do is
pay the four dollars to get it gift-wrapped.
That'll save you from having to send
it out a second time, and then
get it delivered to the recipient.
For those of you traveling,
take advantage of all of my free shipping deals,
and get those items delivered to the recipient
rather than taking them in your car or on airplanes.
That'll save you a lot of frustration.
USPS, the United States Postal Service,
is way cheaper than sending things via FedEx or UPS.
But one of the big things to keep in mind
is most of the deadlines that you
are promised are not usually honored.
And again, I love them.
The very hard working men and women
for this particular company, and all shippers
this time of year are heroes.
Anything that says two or three-day shipping
really in most cases is four or five-day.
It's an estimate.
A small box to send via USPS is under ten bucks.
Somewhere between six and nine dollars.
And this small box which folds as you can see,
could accommodate one power bank
which we're actually sending out to a winner.
You could fit a few small things in here.
But the box size that no one seems to know about
are a little bit less utilized, is the cube box.
This rate and this rate are identical, under ten bucks.
But you can fit so much more inside this box.
In fact, on the power bank example,
I could fit probably four or five power banks
into this box, where the other small box is one.
So this is a small mailing box, which is called a cube.
Use this.
This is great for sending hats, a lot of other items
which are awkwardly shaped into a small box
so you don't have to pay a premium.
This is a medium flat-rate box and so is this.
So depending on the object sizes, for this
you're looking at under 15 dollars
to send something via two to three-day priority mail
with USPS.
But keep in mind the boxes are not created equal.
And a lot of people will see this box
and then pay the next size, which is a large,
when you don't need to.
And the large boxes are even more confusing.
On the large box, it's also as deceptive,
or confusing, as the medium box.
And I used the word deceptive, not that anyone
is trying to play tricks on you.
Or are they?
But that it is a confusing process where what you see
is not always what you pay for.
So this is the large box, and you can see
what you could fit in here.
Not much different than the medium box.
But this is where things get very interesting.
This box costs somewhere between 18 and 25 dollars to send.
So does this box.
They're flat-rate boxes.
But what you can fit in one versus the other
is a completely different ballgame.
So when you are either ordering your boxes
from USPS.com or going to a post office,
make sure you know the difference between
the large and the medium, as well as the small.
Cuz that can make or break the bank.
Especially for us.
I mean, I send out hundreds of items
a month to you guys.
Oh, and by the way, speaking of sending things out,
it's now time for our giveaway.
Using TubeBuddy's random Pick A Winner tool
I will find a subscriber who's commented
in the last six months.
Congratulations C4 Creations!
I'm so honored to be your favorite YouTuber.
Yes, you've won, congratulations!
And I'm not gonna dance because
one of the number one things from our survey,
was people said they don't wanna
see dancing anymore which is really upsetting.
But we're gonna respect your wishes,
we're gonna follow what it was that you want.
And a reminder, if you are not yet subscribed
to this channel, I give everything I test away for free.
So I'm going to pass it along now
to one of my favorite people with a quick way
to make sure you get hooked up this holiday season.
Why are you so sad?
- I'm sad because people aren't subscribed to you.
And it's so easy.
All they have to do is click on your head
right here to become subscribed to your channel.
And if they wanna see another awesome deal,
they have to click right up here.
Sorry, this is like sad.
I don't wanna be sad.
- [Matt] Hahaha!
- And to turn on their YouTube notifications
they have to click right here.