How to Print a USPS Scan Form when you print single ebay labels throughout the day

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

This is from today's ebay for Business podcast. (For more info, see the podcast itself) If I get a chance later, I'll try to condense the steps, but for now:

"Tyler: Sure. It's actually very easy. Instead of printing out a single label from the default print label option, you print it using the bulk label option....

 When you're ready to ship a single order on the ship order page, look for the link in the upper right hand corner for print labels in bulk. This will lead you to the bulk label flow. Like we talked about in 183, as opposed to the single label flow. Just follow the instructions for printing out the single label and then do this throughout the day for each sale you make. Print out each single label using the bulk label flow, not the default flow.

Griff: So you don't have to wait till the end of the day and print out all the days label in bulk?

Tyler: That's right. But to be fair, most sellers will do that. But some sellers prefer to print single labels throughout the day and then bring us a lot or have them picked up as a lot. And as we advised those sellers in the previous episode, it wasn't possible to generate a single scan form for the days single labels. But Joel has proved that to be not the case.

Griff: And the whole point of having a scan form is to make it easier for USPS either the clerk behind the desk or the driver to put a lot of parcels on record as being received.

Tyler: Precisely. One scan, as opposed to several single label scans. As we mentioned last time, USPS workers will sometimes deny a request to scan more than five labels. With a scan form, which by the way, can accommodate up to 50 parcels. The USPS person only has to scan the one sheet to record the entire lots tracking numbers.

Griff: And that's the whole point of a scan form. It's all the tracking numbers for the parcels in that lot. So you don't have to scan them individually

Tyler: Precisely. So if you prefer to print and pay for single labels throughout the day as sales happen, this hack could be a good option for you. And then, you would just generate that scan form for the day's single labels. But remember the navigation path we laid out for getting to the scan form page.

Griff: Right. Because there's no easy link back to the scam forms page. Maybe you could repeat those steps Tyler.

Tyler: Of course, you'd go to Seller Hub. Then the Orders Tab, once there look on the left hand navigation and select Shipping Labels. The title at the top of the Shipping Labels Page says Track And Manage Your Shipments. Just so you know, you're on the right page.

Tyler: Yes. And just under that title is an elongated box with text that says, have more orders awaiting shipment, try the bulk shipping tool. Click that box.

Griff: And then?

Tyler: And then look in the upper right hand corner of that page. There's a link for scan forms, click it. And then on that page, you'll see scan form generation modules for labels, not yet generated into a scan form.

Griff: And as you said in episode 183, you should probably bookmark that page in case you forget how you got there.

Tyler: Absolutely it make it's a lot quicker than all of those clicks.

[dhbookds]

Seems like there would be some interest in this...........considering the problems brought up about postmen not wanting to scan more than 5 items........

[valueaddedresource]

That's some great info - thanks for pulling it out of the podcast transcript for those who may have missed it!

[tsme35]

A lot more time and work, if you don't go to bulk and print the label, the scan sheet won't work.  I tried to see if I could make a scan sheet for the last day, next page say purchase labels and I'm not keep going bulk page to print each label.

I just lucky to have a decent mail lady who understands, I'll be changing my shipping time to 3 days, that should cover the one day a sub picks up.

[a_c_green]

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@tsme35 wrote:

A lot more time and work, if you don't go to bulk and print the label, the scan sheet won't work.

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Indeed. I'm looking at my Orders page, which has all the data for a SCAN sheet already present, especially the tracking numbers, plus a checkbox in the Actions column allowing one or more items to be checked off for a batch process (such as to compile a SCAN form for the selected shipments).

In short, all the mechanism is already there for adding SCAN sheet functionality to the Orders page, with the tracking numbers themselves actually on display. All it needs is for someone to add that option coding to the existing page. I'm not saying that it's a simple addition, but it's an obvious one in a logical place. Someone just needs to get it done.

[tsme35]

Don't hold your breath, even worse print program is down on firefox, called yesterday and was told their working on it.

ebay is just a mess

[simply-the-best-for-you]

Hey Guys, 

Ok, I'm trying to use Bulk Shipping for the first time in 10 years or so, to test this whole thing out.  I only have 1 pkg to mail so far today, but that's supposed to work.  I immediately run into a problem.   I changed the weight on the pkg, then clicked the check box with the order number (assuming I have to do that to tell it which orders to print?) & I get an error message in red saying: 

Sorry, we couldn't find a delivery service for this order.

Error getting quotes from server

Retry

I keep re-trying, but the same message just comes up.  Nothing unusual about this.  I have USPS FC shipping is what the buyer chose from the listing.  Am I missing something or is this a glitch? 

Help please & thank you!  I'll be gone for a few hours, but will check here later.  

@my-cottage-books-and-antiques 

@tsme35 

@a_c_green 

@valueaddedresource 

Just reaching out to you guys, since you seem familiar with it.  My apologies if you have no idea what I'm talking about, just ignore me 🙂

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

@simply-the-best-for-you  I posted this, but I did so because I knew some people were interested in how to do this. I haven't personally used it, was just trying to help out, so I'm afraid I'm not much help.

[simply-the-best-for-you]

@tsme35 

@my-cottage-books-and-antiques 

@a_c_green 

@valueaddedresource 

Never mind...signed Emily Latilla 🙂  Backed out & tried it again & now I don't get the error message.  Not sure if it was a glitch or if I messed something up when I changed the weight.  I know on the regular shipping screen, there's nomenclature issues with changing the weight.  It has to be just so.   

It worked now & printed the label.  Hopefully I'll have another sale & can test out the actual SCAN portion.   Not sure if it would let me print a SCAN sheet for just 1 item (I'll try it anyway, even if I don't get another sale).  Sorry to have bothered you.  

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

@simply-the-best-for-you No problem. Glad you got it worked out.

[tsme35]

Not a problem, couldn't help you, once I looked it over just too much a pain, plus I have a great mail lady that by passes it. Unlike her company< USPS, she cares about her route.

[simply-the-best-for-you]

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@tsme35 wrote:

Not a problem, couldn't help you, once I looked it over just too much a pain, plus I have a great mail lady that by passes it. Unlike her company< USPS, she cares about her route.

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So do I, but my carrier is afraid the way to do that is going to disappear, since as you know, this was a software update.  He said that buttons have disappeared in the past.  

You're right, it is a pain.  Being that most days I have under 6 items anyway & the only way to know if I'm going to get more, is to wait all day to print, which I don't like to do.  But get this, so I got it to work, got a 2nd sale, so great, I can really test this out.  It worked, I printed my SCAN sheet & was texting my carrier to tell him that I tried it as a test & no sooner was I in the middle of that text, when another sale came in.  No way to include that on the SCAN sheet I already printed.  I have no idea if it would have worked to create another one for the same day.  It says they are grouped by the day & sent from zip code.   It already would not have included any morning sales, before he comes, but I wouldn't want to print a scan sheet for those b/c there will be sales later in the day too.   Additionally, I keep weird hours & I'm wide awake & working for many hours after midnight.  

Anyone know if you can print 2 SCAN sheets for the same day?  Like what happened to me, I got done printing it & then more sales came in.  Can I print a 2nd one, for the same day?  

[zeemakgroup]

1. To start, click Print USPS SCAN form to be view the list of labels from that day. To generate the current batch into a SCAN form, select Generate. 
   1. NOTE: The first scan form you generate each day will include any bulk labels you previously printed earlier in the day that were not generated into a scan form. Once a scan form is generated additional labels cannot be added to the form.
2. A confirmation popup will appear - if you are ready to generate a scan form, click Generate > OK. If you want to wait for later in the day, you can click Cancel.
3. On the next page, you can print any scan forms you have generated by selecting Print to the right of the form.

[kelp4less]

Thank you for your help on this subject. When I try this it only works when I have two or more labels and not when I only need to print one label.

[kelp4less]

Can you void a shipping label that is on a scan form but has not been picked up yet by the post office?