Ebay Item Number Not Printing on new Shipping Label

[holubko]

It was useful to have the item number on the shipping label, please put it back.

[agent006140]

are you a freight fowarder?

No way I want the item number on the label,there are too many nosy people already

[agent006140]

you can ask the seller to manually enter the item number on the box

[mycarolinavintage]

As a seller, I can see how it may be useful for packing purposes. As a buyer, I don't know why I would want or need it.

[nobody*s_perfect]

It's useful for buyers who purchase multiple similar items from different sellers, when the sellers fail to include any receipt in the package.

[agent006140]

some are freight forwarders who need to know which package goes to which client without opening the package or lookup who bought what ?and where to forward to?

[agent006140]

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@mycarolinavintage wrote:

As a seller, I can see how it may be useful for packing purposes. As a buyer, I don't know why I would want or need it.

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worse,any nosy person like an USPS post office worker can key that ebay number into search and find out what you are buying.

[kim_y_buran]

Why would you want it?  It's essentially the same as writing contents and price on the package.

[fern*wood]

When I print my shipping labels on ebay, I have the option to have the item number print by checking a box.    Ebay hasn't taken that option away but many probably don't use it.

[pjcdn2005]

There was a recent thread about how some users were seeing a new ‘streamlined’ label that didn’t have the same options as the old label program.  I wonder if that’s the situation here?

[nobody*s_perfect]

Yes, that's exactly it, which is why the thread title refers to the "new" shipping label. It also lacks the option to specify a "shipping from" ZIP Code and, um one other option I can't remember right now.

[agent006140]

under additional option,there is this -

Print SKU/order number on label

(order number is not ebay auction number)??

[nobody*s_perfect]

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@agent006140 wrote:

under additional option,there is this -

Print SKU/order number on label

(order number is not ebay auction number)??

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Yes, the "order number" is the eBay listing number.

The old version of the label has a checkbox to show the listing number, but that check box does not appear on the new version of the label.   You can look up/copy the number and enter it in the space for "add custom  information". This form also lacks the option to specify which shipping date to print on the label.

The new simplified postage label form looks like this:

[berserkerplanet]

Is there a way to get access to the new label flow to see what's what? Like grafting transaction numbers, etc into a URL?

[nobody*s_perfect]

When I tried that, I got an error message.