@fallgold4031 The postal rate hike is not new info. It has been known since at least October and it should not even be a surprise since USPS has been doing this for years following the conclusion of the holiday surcharge.
Also, the changes involve postmarks, not acceptance scans for packages. Those are two different things. eBay tracks whether a package has been accepted because that is what is tied to the tracking number. Mail carriers should still scan a package accepted when they pick it up. Some already don't do that, and leave it to be done when they get back to their facility. Regardless, the acceptance scan should happen before it goes to the regional facility.
The postmark change will impact standard letter mail. That would include eBay Standard Envelope. For a lot of people, including myself, the change won't be noticeable at all because our mail has not been postmarked locally in about 20 years. If I were to mail a letter to an address 3 miles from my home, it would take 3 days to be delivered, because it has to go an hour away to get the postmark, which is often not until the next day. If you have something truly time sensitive that needs a postmark, postal clerks will still be able to manually stamp the postmark for the current date at the counter.
