Shipping

[phxsports]

The USPS is such a mess.  I send a lot of sports cards with the eBay standard envelope & get quite a few cases opened because it 2-3 or more weeks in the USA!

[heckofagame]

You get what you pay for?

[tobaccocardyahoo]

ESE is fundamentally an Ebay decision to offer this service for the wrong items.

USPS is looking for a way to use the equipment invested in for Letter Mail. They are legally required to provide the service to all of the US. The number of letters decreases every year.

Sports cards may be the worst category to have offered the service in. Common usage to ship cards in top loaders means more problems in getting these shipments through the sorters.

Sports card sellers sell a lot of cheap cards. IMO not worth selling. It is hard to get the buyers to pay for a proper service. Lotting them is a limited success because many buyers do not want most of the lot and will not buy a lot.

This is not a USPS problem. This is an Ebay problem and a seller problem. Sports card sellers have no good solution available to them. The alternative is a stamped envelope and paying the non-machineable surcharge and marking the package non-machineable. Which means no tracking, loss of INR claims, and an effect on seller rating.

[inhawaii]

The USPS is not a mess.

Ebay's standard envelope system is a mess.

[12345jamesstamps]

USPS has been great for me.

Never got anything lost in years.

A good old forever stamp is all I need.

I been able to ship 4 trading cards in a standard envelope with a forever stamp in the past without a problem.

My items have been getting 3-4 days cross country.

[onefootflipper]

I have an all standard envelope account with 11,000 items that is currently at 100 percent in every metric.

You are having problems because you are overpacking your cards. Top loaders and card savers jam the machines, get shredded in the machines or get ejected from the machine and don't start moving again until someone sweeps up the floor in that machine room. 

Stick a worthless baseball card or 2 on either side of the real card, slide that into a CCG card sleeve and tape off center in the envelope.  Don't use a top loader, don't use a card saver.

Just sandwich it with a few worthless commons and all your problems will go away. 

I know this will break your brain, but it is the best way to ship with standard envelope. 

[phxsports]

No tracking with a stamp