Ok, you have your mining and skinning skills together and you're working them hard. Your bags are full and it's time to get the stuff onto the Auction House. So do you stop what you're doing, run back to town, hope on the nearest bird-like thing, and fly to the capital city, hit the mailbox, and then the Auction House, and then travel all the way back to your looting fields?
Or do you just dump it all into the nearest mailbox and send it to your mule (banker) and get right back to the looting?
 Yes, there is a better way than flying back to the big city after every loot run. The mule. No, not the four legged kind, which isn’t available in WoW anyway. This “mule” is just another character that you don't bother to level up much.
Simply put, you create the character, level it up to 5 or so, and then run it to the nearest AH where it’ll spend the rest of its career. Why level 5? Because then you can get Enchanting which will allow you to disenchant low level items, which can make a nice cash flow by itself.
Select a name for this character that is easy to remember and type, because you will be sending mail (items and money) to this character from all of your other characters on the same server and you don't want to send your stuff to the wrong character by mistake!
I recommend not naming this character something silly. Skip names like, "Bobsbank," "isellstuff," and so on. Just give it a regular name, the random name generator in the character creator is great for this, and don't connect it to your mail character at all.
Then add this mule character’s name to the friend list of all your other characters, which will avoid all future miss-sending of mail.
Once your character is ready then you run it to the nearest capital city, such as Stormwind or Orgimmer. Stay on the main road, keep your eyes open for things that will kill you, and you should be safe enough.
When your mule arrives in the city you should station it by the mailbox nearest to the AH. Now, whenever your gathering character's inventory is full of good loot to sell you only need to travel as far as the closest mailbox, instead of travelling to the AH.
Horde-side I like Silvermoon city, at the west Auction House. There is a mailbox about five feet from the auctioneers, the bank is nearby, and the crowds are nill. Alliance side I like Stormwind for the same reasons, except the crowds. Feel free to use whichever city you prefer.
Send your mule enough money to get started, as it costs money to list items on the AH, and send it everything that isn’t grey. (Grey items are almost always sold to a vendor.)
Log into your mule when youi're done looting/playing/raiding/PvPing, etc., and post your items for sale. This allows you to pay attention to selling then it's AH time and to pay attention to the game when it's "hack and slay" time.
One mule can be the central banking station for all your characters on tha server. They all send loot to the mule/banker for sale and most of the cash is kept on that character. Need an item? The banker buys it and sends it to the appropriate character. Just in case you're interested, this is my banker/mule character.
Basically, when it's buy/sell time you can focus on the buying and selling. When it's game time yo can focus on the leveling or raidng or PvPing and forget about the buying and selling. Sounds good to me.
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