Comments on: eBay Offers Advice for Rural Sellers Using USPS

By: reefcreators

reefcreators — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:21:49 +0000

Why isn’t the shipping team telling you that eBay doesn’t recognize the scan from a scan sheet when someone claims item not received. According to eBay that scan doesn’t show that usps physically had possession of the package and have denied sellers, seller protection.

By: hardworkingseller

hardworkingseller — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:30:16 +0000

If I got that BS from my local post office I would meet with the local office manager and ask that they go on the record and put their position in writing.

I can’t believe that this would be supported for a second by anyone in authority in USPS.

I’d track down the local Senior VP of Operations, or similar, in USPS for that region and ask that they stop by that office for a quick re-education session with the management team.

They’ve spent many millions advertising that Priority Mail has insurance included (and printing that on their branded boxes), and that is invalidated if there is no record of USPS having taken receipt of the package.

I’m sure this is just some local jobsworth thinking that USPS national policy revolves around them.

In any case once you have the scanner in your hand and and set to pre-paid package acceptance scan mode, how much incremental time is added by scanning a sixth package? Two seconds?

The problem here is that USPS retired Delivery Confirmation and replaced it with end-to-end tracking in mid 2013. But nearly ten years down the road there’s *still* thousands of employees fighting tooth and nail against this change and USPS local management in many places refuses to act against the people who refuse to work as directed.

I know it’s a tough hiring market, but are they really saying that if they cleared out the dead wood (for cause) there isn’t anyone out there who wants a steady gig with benefits?

By: cvsharkey

cvsharkey — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 10:07:46 +0000

Shipping is a scary place.

I’ve experience with UPS, FedEx, USPS & DHL. Plus a couple of freight services. The only ones I have not had issues with having packages shipped & delivered with has been UPS & FedEx.

Bulk shipments can easily have items lost, and tracking to locate them can be a terrible experience, depending upon the value of the missing package. So, to me, a quick scan of a multi-item form is NOT sufficient.

Best description of most of these companies processes is “HIT & MISS.”

By: whatayear

whatayear — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 04:41:01 +0000

Wow, I gave the USPS over 58k last year for shipping, and they don’t want to scan my packages ? I already have a horriffic mail carrier who seems to hate her job. She hates to pick up when there is a snow storm the night before. We own two snowplows and custom plow our driveway thoroughly first thing in the am, especially keeping in mind she picks up around 10am every day. I even got 10 yds of sand delivered this year because she kept complaining about the ice near my ramp where she picks up the packges. Twice this year, she just drove right by and never picked up the packages. Grrrrr… In previous years, the postmaster knew she was an asshole, and on snodays he would bring his SUV and do the pick up himself, but not this year. I have lived here 30 years, been doing online pick up here for 20. When this mail carrer went out on workmans comp for almost a year, the mail pickups went smoothly with no problems. Pure bliss for me. My incoming packages were not thrown down in the mud and snow like the horriffic woman who went out on comp.

By: COVID-19

COVID-19 — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 22:10:09 +0000

Surprised eBay didn’t tell rural sellers to hurry it up, drive to the cities themselves and hustle like Big Bro Amazon!

By: tsme35

tsme35 — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 13:09:29 +0000

I love my mail lady, she knows this is my living, she will scan every package because that is her job.
The shipping team is about useless, they were told about this and about the OUTRAGEOUS surcharge months ago and has done nothing to mediate some kind of deal. Now I have to send more time and money on ink and paper to print out 2 forms for the USPS.

By: brotherc20

brotherc20 — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 09:32:47 +0000

It is still the carriers job to scan every package as prepaid acceptance. A firm sheet scanned is not proof USPS has possession of all the packages attached to the firm sheet. Nothing really has changed expect the request for 5 popping up which prior it would just say shipment accepted on scanner yes or no. The carrier must scan each package as prepaid acceptance. This can be done prior to scanning the firm sheet or after the scan and then the 5 packages. The carrier simply scrolls down to prepaid acceptance and starts scanning each package. Basically now 5 packages will be scanned twice. I have family that works for the Postal Office and everything in their office is scan, scan, scan as instructed in several Postmaster Generals employee videos.