U.S Post Office broken down not delivering packages. No good!

[jewelbiz]

Gave in a registered mail package 11,23,2018 to my NYC post office.

All is ever said for tracking is “in transit”

Still in transit.

Call US post office 1800 number.

Had plenty of options but NO live person can came to phone.

Said to speak to a representative it’s more than 1 hour wait time.

[bubbleman2010]

but its the ebay way. If you sit down and look at each problem you encounter you'll find out its mostly a ebay generated problem....

[emerald40]

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@ed8108 wrote:

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@emerald40 wrote:

Registered mail is the safest way to send an item because it is kept in a locked cage where only one or two people have the key.  Everyone who touches it has to sign for it.

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Perhaps a theory !

Reality

Where did my registered mail article go ?

& Why was no delivery scan ever recorded !

 USPS has provided no answer

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Now I am not saying your package was lost.

what I am saying is I get a lot of packages.  And often times I get the initial scan and the ending scan and absolutely nothing in the middle.

My last package took 10 days.  No tracking until the last day when it all updated at once.

This has happened many times with usps.

[collectablesofliberty]

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@turquoisetulips wrote:

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@bubbleman2010 wrote:

Jewel 7 days is a long time item should have arrived within 3 days have you heard from your buyer?

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So now the sellers will get dinged by e bay  because of the USPS flub ups and late deliveries ? 😞 

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Yes and no, No you will not get a late delivery ding, if you got it in the mail and scanned in the time frame you agreed to, you are protected as a seller on that. Yes, you will get dinged if the carrier does not scan your packages. We have taken to driving our afternoon shipments to the Post Office and Standing in line to ensure they are scanned. Our regular Store Mail Carrier he knows we need it done and there is no problem. It is only New Sub Carriers that get us. Usually a few times a year, though we keep a list of those tracking numbers and give them to our Normal Guy and he gets them fixed.

[emerald40]

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@bubbleman2010 wrote:

but its the ebay way. If you sit down and look at each problem you encounter you'll find out its mostly a ebay generated problem....

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In this case, yes.  Ebay is being too rigid in not understanding that during various natural disasters or holiday season, things are going to slow down.

And yes sometimes these drivers take shortcuts trying to get everything in the truck delivered,  In my case they never replaced my postal worker who retired, so other drivers finish their routes then do mine.  They are delivering in the dark.  And cannot go home until the truck is empty.

So it is partly the postal service as well because they know they do not have enough workers delivering the mail.

And while I hold my breath waiting for that to happen, I have increased my handling time by 3 days.

[moondogblues]

There have been massive storms back East and now CA is flooding and having mudslides. Just had a big earthquake in Alaska. It's really too bad that eBay doesn't take things into consideration for the sellers. I have noticed a slow down in items coming out of both Idaho and Nevada lately. Probably snow.

[emerald40]

I am on the East Coast.

No problems here with weather beyond it being really cold.

[bubbleman2010]

Postal service isn't working to ebay standards?

[escuintla]

Come on guys!

Give the USPS, Fedex, UPS, and whatnot a break. 

You and I, and he and she, are looking at our packages to be delivered at the same time. Somebody has to be the first one to be served. 

It is going to get worser, as my kids say, than better. 

2 packages of mine in the media category, no track since Monday or Tuesday. 

They will get there. 

[bubbleman2010]

So if OP would have snagged a hothead package was suppose to be there Monday and wasn't buyer opened a dispute for $1200.00 Monday evening and escalated today and closed and awarded to buyer OP should just give USPS a break and accept the $1200.00 loss? I don't think expecting to get the service you were promised and paid for should be to much to expect...

[castlemagicmemories]

You can sign up online for transit updates.  That might help.

[mopata]

Registered Mail is very safe and a good option for high value items, like coins and jewelry. However, it is slow. The last registered shipment I sent to the West coast took over a week. Ebay dinged me for a late shipment even though it was mailed the next day.

[auctionpet]

This is the worst week of the year for package movement. It's due to the fact all the Black Friday and Cyber Monday online purchases are dumped into the system at once. The carriers simply can't handle the sudden massive overload of packages, which creates a tremendous backlog.

As others have stated, Registered Mail is the slowest method of delivery because of all the security checks. It would be even slower this time of year.

[turquoisetulips]

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@bubbleman2010 wrote:

but its the ebay way. If you sit down and look at each problem you encounter you'll find out its mostly a ebay generated problem....

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I see it that way as well . These obvious self serving rules for sellers  they come with are  totally  unfair.  To punish sellers  for  shipping delays caused by  the post office and the holiday rush  are  appalling  and an ''excuse ''.  Tulips 

[turquoisetulips]

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@bubbleman2010 wrote:

Postal service isn't working to ebay standards?

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Maybe they should spank them instead ?  I get my orders out the next business day ,, always .  So now I'm going to be  in trouble with e bay  because  our probably very overworked postal carrier never scanned them  ? Just dandy  😞 

[turquoisetulips]

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@mopata wrote:
Registered Mail is very safe and a good option for high value items, like coins and jewelry. However, it is slow. The last registered shipment I sent to the West coast took over a week. Ebay dinged me for a late shipment even though it was mailed the next day.

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It really burns me up when we do EVERYTHING right  that we possibly can  and e bay still thinks its okay  to punish us when things go wrong that are  completely out of our control . Tulips