@7794heather wrote:
@bigdeals.etc wrote:
@jewelbiz wrote:
I once made an $1800. Antique coral necklace Sale and the address was in 100% Chinese characters & was located some remote place in Mainland China.
I called eBay and was told to print out exactly the Chinese character address and paste it securely onto my package. That the post office knows how to deal with it.
And I did. No problem. Big Sale went through.
So basically they told you to walk into a PO counter and pay for retail full price USPS postage? That’s not really fixing the issue within eBay but rather pushing you over to someone else to help you out.
I guess for $1800, it here really is no other choice in order to protect yourself.
Re-read what she wrote.
Oh I thought you meant you just did that then went to the PO counter to buy postage. Are you talking about doing that AFTER creating the postage within eBay? If so, then that’s not much different than my message #5 solution. The trick is to get it printed out and dodging those possible red text errors.
The issue isn’t about whether it’s a problem sending out packages with non Latin alphabet/characters, the issue is eBay postage translating those characters to “blank” when it gets created.
Your solution of creating secondary address label outside of eBay and putting it next to the postage would work if you shipped it directly to the buyers location. But as mentioned earlier, that wouldn’t work if the postage was going to am international consolidation/sorting facility first… like eBay standard international delivery does. I.e. a buyer purchases using a Chinese address in Chinese characters. You create the label… the label says it’s going to the sorting facility in Redondo Beach, calif. That facility sorts and creates their own international postage based off of what was entered when I created the postage… which can essentially be blank (because of the character translation), right? Or in some cases I see some third world addresses put a note in their address “next to the red building” or something like that which probably is important for their local carrier but not accepted in eBay postage (so it was removed just to be able to create the postage).
If that information was printed out and taped onto the side of the package, it’s very likely it would confuse the US carrier taking the package to the sorting facility in the US. Or in your example they’ll see two different addresses, one to the US (in the postage label) and one taped on. Some of these facilities may repackage your item and dismiss the additional address notes on the package as well.
