Inceptions
@bigdeals.etc wrote:
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He said "Oh, yea we make sure that all packages in this ebay bin are scanned in because they are saying ebay penalizes you if it's not scanned. But it's 445pm and there's no way we are able to scan these all by the time they go on the truck to the main PO site. Hopefully they'll scan them there. Oh well."[...]
Has anyone seen their local PO doing this too? Thoughts?
His claims are nonsense. It takes no longer to do an Acceptance scan with the hand-held as a Delivery scan, and I watch our local carriers doing the Delivered scans at our mailbox in a matter of a few seconds each. If you're really in doubt, check your tracking on-line the next day to see when the Acceptance scan took place. (A phrase like "Accepted at Origin Sort Facility" means that the local PO didn't bother scanning it, so it never got recognized by the system until the sort facility scanned it.)
On the plus side, if that post office has made the effort to set up an eBay-exclusive package drop, I think they probably really are scanning the items deposited there, regardless of what that one employee is claiming. (I wonder what they do about non-eBay labels, like Poshmark? Throw that package aside? 
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My local PO scans anything coming in with a barcode on it. That's what the barcode is for, after all.
My PO is in a town of 1600, so no, I have never seen a dedicated Ebay bin 
My carriers are great, though, never miss a scan.
@jason_incognito wrote:think of how long it will take 1 person to scan 500 packages.
Sure. Let's assume 3 seconds handling time per package to grab it off the pile, scan it and toss it to its next location. (No one is going have a separate scanning step of simply picking it up, scanning it and putting it down again in the same place. It'll be done as part of a transfer, most likely at the point of emptying the original bin or drop box.)
So at three seconds per, that's 20 packages processed per minute, 100 every five minutes, and the whole pile of 500 done in 25 minutes. That's actually pretty consistent with our own local PO, in terms of the time lag between Acceptance of a bin-drop item (the scan we're talking about here) and the timestamp for when it leaves the PO on the truck.
@jason_incognito wrote:
Have you ever seen how the PO unloads a stack off boxes. They tip it over and the conveyor evens them out. Nobody actually touches them.
True, except for the first step, the one we're discussing here, which in our local place is done by hand. Even if it wasn't, the 360° conveyor scanner can catch the barcode, too. In any event, our local PO is managing to do the job right every time, to their credit (which scanning provides, actually: letting the system know what their workload is in terms of how many packages they've scanned).
I had another thought about that dedicated eBay dropoff cart, actually: that PO may actually be scanning those packages as promised, while simultaneously ignoring all the others getting dropped in the regular lobby wall chute. 
I leave mine on the dock with my scan form. That's one scan required...no need to scan in each package. You can print a scan form when you use the bulk shipping option.
- Check the boxes for the transactions for the labels you want to print.
- Select the Shipping Action Print shipping labels an invoices.
- Click Continue.
- Fill out/correct missing information in the grid and purchase your labels.
- On the next page, check the box to print the labels, scan form, and receipt or packing slips if you want them.
