mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
@mklv wrote:where are the choices for ground advantage we are supposed to be updating our first class shipping listings?
In your listing set up. Go to the Shipping box if you use stated shipping. You will have to delete the the box and then add a new service. In your options you will see GA.
Or you can Add a service and then delete the box that says FC parcel. It is really easy, it just takes a little bit of time.
@a_c_green wrote:
@mam98031 wrote:
Or you can Add a service and then delete the box that says FC parcel. It is really easy, it just takes a little bit of time.In my experience when updating my listings, there's no First Class Package entry to be deleted. It seems to have been converted to a generic First Class entry instead, I suppose as a backup precaution to maintain the ability of the Shipping process to choose a still-working Shipping label option if the seller has failed to do the necessary update to USPS Ground Advantage.
Much as I hate the updating process, it has forced me to take a fresh look at some long-tail listings that I haven't reviewed in ages. I've been ending them in their current form, then doing a Sell Similar from the ended listing. In addition to updating the Shipping options, I've also found places to tweak the description , adjust pricing, add quantity discounts or otherwise improve some details, after which the listing gets launched as a fresh entry. I've already had some sales to suggest that I'm on the right track with that.
IDK about your listings, but on mine there was.
I used the bulk editor for about 98% of my listings. Super easy.
@cambriachick wrote:When I went to print labels for my sales last week, I noticed that parcel select and fc had been changed over to ground advantage by eBay.
Yes in the label system, but you still have to make sure that your listings read correctly for Ground Advantage.
@buyselljack2016 wrote:
Correct. As of 9 July PS and 1st Class no longer exist for packages.
Seller have 30 days to update their listings to the correct service. Ground Advantage.
I the meantime the labels will auto change to GA. After 30 days..................................????
Actually USPS will accept the packages reading FC that should be GA until the end of September.
"Note for Business Mailers: The Postal Service allows a grace period to implement USPS Ground Advantage™ Service Type Codes (STCs) until September 30, 2023. To learn more, see the PostalPro™ Industry Alert."
@mam98031 wrote:
@a_c_green wrote:
@mam98031 wrote:
Or you can Add a service and then delete the box that says FC parcel. It is really easy, it just takes a little bit of time.In my experience when updating my listings, there's no First Class Package entry to be deleted. It seems to have been converted to a generic First Class entry instead, I suppose as a backup precaution to maintain the ability of the Shipping process to choose a still-working Shipping label option if the seller has failed to do the necessary update to USPS Ground Advantage.
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IDK about your listings, but on mine there was.
Here's a screenshot of a Sell Similar session to show what I was describing, prior to my deleting the old First Class Package method and replacing it with USPS Ground Advantage:
The price range shown above seems to suggest the old FCP pricing (for which the new GA pricing is supposed to remain unchanged, as I understand it), but here (and in the old listing itself if viewed on-line), the option still shows as "Standard Shipping (USPS First Class®)".
I doubt that most buyers will know or care about the difference, and hopefully those who do notice will also understand that GA is the direct replacement for FCP, and that the seller isn't playing sillybuggers with the buyer's choice of Shipping method.
My bad, you are correct. I went back and looked at a few listings I printed out and you are correct. Sorry.
Yes, there is no change to GA pricing for under a pound, which is what I use mostly. But as I understand it, sizes that will ship GA changed. IDK what they changed to because it doesn't affect me, so I didn't study it.
It is Media Mail rates that had an increase.
@tsme35 wrote:Mine isn't showing ground advantage, its showing "shipping policy" drop down menu that shows every shipping policy I'm using. I can't delete the box, I can only use a side menu to view, edit or credit shipping policy. Whole thing is a mess
Would you provide a screen shot please so we can see exactly what you are seeing.
I can't get the drop down menu's to stay when I click screen shot but this is what I have. It has shipping policies, before the 9th, mine looked like what you all showed. It shows like 11 different types of policies I'm using or have used, 1st class to UPS ground. I never set up policies but did set up rules for combine shipping but now have polices. My only guess is make a new policy for each type of shipping then bulk edit.
