I'm sending a 6 pound package to a buyer in Germany. Ordinarily I would use USPS Priority Mail (cost $63.75) The new program was $57.00. Pirateship was the same $63.75.
So first - yes saved some money.
BUT
It shows a ship to address of:
EBAY INTERNATIONAL DELIVERY LAX
with an address in Redondo Beach CA.
and it is marked "Priority Mail 2-day". It shows a typical USPS tracking number but then below that a secondary bar code beginning ESUS. It is that ESUS number which shows up on my sold items page, not the USPS number. So if you do not make a note of that USPS number you will have no way of verifying that it actually made it to Redondo Beach.
I clicked the tracking number and it shows an estimated delivery date of Sunday March 15.
I know from past experience that shipments to Germany have only taken about 7-10 days by USPS so I am concerned about that 3/15 date. What is my buyer going to think when he sees that?
There is a reference number at the bottom of the label but I do not see any connection between that number and my order so it must be an internal thing to help them sort the package,.
Neither by buyer's name nor address nor country shows anywhere on the label.
It does show my address as the "ship from" although on these it also shows my eBay username.
If we ship to a freight forwarder then the delivery is considered complete once the forwarder gets it. i.e. no Not Received claim later on from the ultimate buyer.
Will the same apply here? If it gets lost between CA and Germany am I covered?
UNFORTUNATELY the label has the same orientation problems that FedEx labels have. I had to do a "screen print" and transfer it to a jpeg program to be able to rotate the label to get it to print correctly.
Hope this helps.
