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Sellers: are you having any issues with ebay tracking not talking to USPS on April 26?

Or maybe you are not aware? I purchased/printed a label using USPS (as I've done 1000's of times a year) and 3 on April 26, 2 are fine and 1 still only shows 'label created' but shows NOTHING regarding tracking- which it had no less than 12 'updates'...

New USPS Postmaster General nominee is FedEx board member

Donald Trump and the USPS governing board are prepared to announce the appointment of David Steiner as the new Postmaster General, replacing Louis DeJoy, who resigned earlier this year. Let's see now -- one of the post office's major competitors is F...

Has eBay removed the "Local Pickup" option on invoices?

As of today, I am no longer seeing "Local Pickup" as a shipping service through the "Send Invoice" feature on eBay. I have 2 buyers that want to have items picked up at our warehouse and seems the pickup options has been removed from the available se...

Recurring FedEx Adjustment Errors on eBay Labels: A Call for Seller Protection

Every few weeks, I get slammed with FedEx “adjustment charges” for eBay labels—claiming wildly incorrect weights like 3 lbs → 50 lbs or 12 oz → 10 lbs. These are not minor rounding errors. These are blatant billing mistakes that result in charges of ...

Resolved! Estimated Delivery Date Keeps Changing - Misleading/Disingenuous

I purchased an item with the last estimated delivery date of June 10, 2023. I took a screen shot of my orders after the purchase was shipped showing this. Now, after the date has passed, eBay has changed the estimated delivery date to June 12, 2023. ...

GSP Pitney Bowes is a ripoff

I order a lot of items from the UK and Royal Mail consistently gets items from the UK to Tokyo in 4 days. Ebay's Global shipping that uses Pitney Bowes costs the same yet they leave packages around the warehouse for an entire week before putting it o...

Seller falsely marked item as shipped, then delivered, then refunded my order without explanation

I need help figuring out what happened here. I purchased an item that has been on backorder everywhere in the US, so when I saw the listing for it on eBay I thought "wow, what luck!" I purchased the item after seeing that the seller had 100% positive...

send photographs through ebay standard envelope program?

Can you mail a single photograph with the ebay standard envelope program? I have gotten conflicting answers to this. In the list of categories photos is not listed as something that can be sent as far as I can see. But when I list my photos ESE comes...

flip flop of postage rates

Perhaps it is me. I ship a lot of flat rate envelopes. For instance one week it may be $8.40 for a flat rate envelope, the next it is $8.75, and the following week back to $8.40. Has this happened to anyone else? I just need to be consistent as I hav...

Another Canada Post strike looming late May, 2025

Employees went on strike for 32 days in November and December last year, but never reached a new work agreement. That strike only ended when the labour minister , ordered postal workers back to work and both sides to the bargaining table under a spec...

10 pages of USPS cost adjustments ALL out of wack. totally ripped off.

I just got 10 pages of United States post office shipping adjustments. Some in my favor some against me. So many of them are ridiculously off. It's just insane. This happened on my main seller account. And what's really crazy is the weight they claim...

I only ship in USA via USPS. I just got a sale for Puerto Rico. Is PR considered domestic?

Puerto Rico is not a US state but is somewhat considered USA. I only ship USPS to domestic states. Can I ship to PR just this once??

eBay Standard Envelope Tracking Not Updating? Issues & Solution (After Feb 10, 2025)

Hi everyone, We recently noticed that most of our shipments using the eBay Standard Envelope service have had tracking issues. Either no tracking updates appear after drop-off, or the tracking stops updating entirely. We rarely had problems before, b...

Resolved! Use of Priority Mail Packing materials For Ground advantage is a Crime

I am probably going to raise a few attacks for this thread. But it is a commonly increasing crime for sellers to use USPS provided "Free" PRIORITY SERVICE packaging for any other use than Priority mail, I received 4 items recently from sellers who us...

USPS Returning Single Sports Cards for Additional Postage!?

I'm in the same boat. Just this week, I've had two orders returned for additional nonmachinable postage. Both orders were a single card in a flexible card saver (not a toploader). I repackaged it, reprinted the original label, and put it back in the ...