on 02-24-2016 07:16 AM
It appears that USPS is scanning packages into their internal system the day after I mail them. At exactly 00:59 for almost all of my mailings. I work days outside the home so when someone buys something on a Monday, I do up the shipping to ship on Tuesday - it goes out on Tuesday but is not scanned into the USPS system until 00:59 on Wednesday morning despite the actual pick up scan shown on the tracking being in the afternoon on Tuesday.
How can this be acceptable to sellers? I have now gone from 3 packages being shipped late to over 26 since this new system started. The three packages are when a sale happens on Saturday and I do not get the shipping done until Monday, it ships on Tuesday most of the time if I miss the USPS pickup. Ebay considers Saturday a work day but I am closed on the weekends... I have a life. December late reported delivery was a disaster... USPS is to blame for this - not sellers. All my delivery were exactly 1 day after the estimate that Ebay provides the buyer - the buyers are not complaining but Ebay is holding sellers hostage on this.
I am no longer a power seller after being one for over 5 years... sales are at the lowest I have seen in years.