How many sellers include a packing list with the shipment?

[ryry-jj]

Just curious as to how many sellers include a packing list, or invoice, with the their shipment?  I have always included a a packing slip, but today with the invoice and information all available within the buyers "my eBay" is it necessary?  I don't remember if back in the early 2000 all that info was right there for the buyer or not...remember back then buyers would mail us a check payment and we would then click "paid".

A big reason I'm thinking of no longer including a packing list is I'd like to pre-package completely all my items, and then just print out the shipping/postage label and place on the box.  Right now, items are packed in the box but not sealed up, making storing a bit sloppy, cuz i'm waiting to include the packing list.

[fbusoni]

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

I'm 71 and barely remember pre-internet. TCP/IP  was instituted in 1983 and there I was.

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I'm almost 65 and remember the pre-internet era with great fondness.

In the profession from which I retired after a 45 year career, internet access -- and computerization in general -- largely eliminated the need for intellectual rigor and subject matter expertise, which was at one time were indispensable prerequisites for the sort of work I did. 

When you sat down at a manual typewriter to prepare a memo with a two hour deadline for the National Security Council, for example, you had to have your thoughts in order.  You had to have synthesized the material, developed a story line, and refined the analysis.  All in two or three paragraphs.  There was no time to retype.  And there was no auto-correct on these old machines.

Word processing largely eliminated the need for such preparation.

And when internet access followed, well, there was copy and paste.  

In the last 10 years, computers do a lot of the thinking that analysts used to do.

And one need only open the newspaper today to see the results of this change.