I looked quite a bit into it and if this is the one you had your comments on a negative removed from, I have to be honest looking at the person's feedback I'd NEVER have bought from them. Come on 12 negatives and 11 Neutrals in 12 months. His replies to them aren't really very professional. His first mistake is that it does say Ground Advantage at the top of the listing, but if you read the bottom of the listing, he spells out in great detail his shipping terms about tracking numbers.
As for your thinking that everyone provides tracking, Its not true. Alot of people still use postage stamps which gives no tracking. Especially Coin and Stamp dealers. They have a thing they sell called discounted postage. Its older stamps that they have excess stock of and will sell them to customers at a discount off face value. I've used that many times myself as collectors of stamps want their stuff sent this way.
Also eBay offers a very cheap way to ship with their envelope tracking system. That provides a semi trackable #. The issue with it is that it isn't available for all categories. Also, its not scanned at the door of your home. It's nothing more than a baby-sitting feature so eBay can see you really sent the purchase. It scans in the receiving post office and the delivering office. Just a seller's protection blanket.
I understand your frustrated, but you have to realize life is too short to spend all this energy on a stupid mailbox sticker. You can get them at most any dollar store for a couple bucks. Look how much time you've put into something that was really quite avoidable if you would have checked his feedback first. Stress really does kill. I can only imagine the stress you and the seller have gone thru over this. Just move on. There are much more serious things in life for all of us to worry about. And even then, we should only worry about that which we can control.
