Question y'all....I bought my sister a gorgeous cookbook for her wedding anniversary.  I am not wanting to post it because it is wishlisted...and sorry, folks, it's not for you!

Can I still use "mail to a friend" somehow?  Maybe I should just put in a "dummy" book and then use mail to a friend, like my office dictionary or something?  I would hate to post it only to disappoint a wishlister.

Thanks for any help!

Why not just mail it directly to your sis, and skip the PBS system entirely?

I don't get why you need to go through PBS. Just to print out the postage?  Just wrap it up and take it to the post office.

You can send it using the Custom DC feature on your account page.

Can we use the PBS postage with the Custom DC yet?

ETA: Just answered my own question.... YUP! So get in there and use the Custom DC to do it!

I'm totally confused.  Why would you want to put a book on PBS that you are giving to your sister?  Am I missing something?

Nicole.. I think she wanted to generate the printed postage and label to mail the book.

oohhhhhhhhhh.  okay.

Sorry if I wasn't clear!  I want to generate the pretty mailing label with the bar codes on it. 

I generally take my own books to the PO, but the pretty mailing label speeds things up, in my opinion!

Thanks for any suggestions.

I suppose you could post it as if it did not have an ISBN #, so if it is wishlisted it doesn't get grabbed up, and then quickly go to your bookshelf and do the "mail to friend" thing.  Just brainstorming here.

In the future, you should just post a book that is already in the system.  You don't need the book in front of you, you just need the ISBN of a book such as a John Grishman or Nora Roberts book to use.  Then go to your bookshelf and click on Mail To A Friend.  You can now use PBS postage and DC. 

I do this when I have a book that is over 13 oz and I don't want to go to the PO. 

Thanks all.  Kristen, that's exactly what I ended up doing.  I posted a copy of Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow that was lying on my file cabinet because it was a book club edition.  I knew no one would be salivating over it. 

I think the computer generated label with the handy dandy bar code is likely to move my package faster and perhaps even more reliably than a hand-written label.