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@kim-lak-mg3pxy6k wrote:Buyer here, I recently found out that most sellers had included Philippines as one of the banned countries. May I know the reason why?
During this global health crisis, there have been interruptions and restrictions in some countries' postal services.
The announcements are scattered ... but Linns has been trying to keep all of the announcements updated on their site:
Philippines. Philippine Postal Corporation has advised that an enhanced community quarantine has been imposed in metropolitan Manila and the rest of Luzon island and several areas on Visayas and Mindanao islands, effective through April 12. Philippine Postal Corporation has announced it will operate as follows during the community quarantine:
1. International mail processing centers will maintain a skeleton staff, in order to accept incoming mail until the total lockdown of international air and sea transport on March 20.
2. All post offices in areas placed under quarantine are closed.
@luckythewinner wrote:
@kim-lak-mg3pxy6k wrote:Buyer here, I recently found out that most sellers had included Philippines as one of the banned countries. May I know the reason why?
In order to be protected from an "Item Not Received" claim, eBay sellers must be able to show online viewable delivery confirmation for the package they ship.
When shipping via the US Postal Service, international delivery confirmation is called EDELCON and is only available from a specific list of countries.
The Philippines is not one of those countries, so many sellers (like me) will not ship there.
https://pe.usps.com/eDelConCountryList/Index
At this time ... even sellers who don't manually exclude non eDelCon countries have the Exclusion set by eBay.
Because NOTHING is going in to the Philippines via their postal service as of March 20.
