as it shows I set package weight at one pound. When I print out the label I notice now it’s 15.9 oz. Who do you think is going to have to pay the difference if the usps catches it? Surely not eBay it’ll be my fault that between their site and my printer the weight changes. It is insane the ways they come up with to save a penny and then blame the seller. How many times have I not noticed the difference and then later get hit with an underpayment that was entirely eBay trying to make more money. How many times has this happened to other unsuspecting sellers? eBay got caught red handed committing fraud the price difference of that one ounce $2. There is zero possible chance this isn’t done intentionally I have paid so much in underpayment claims yet when I purposely add weight I never see an overpayment credit like I’m supposed to. Sellers keep an eye out on your labels make sure the weight is was you stat. I’ll post the pic of the label in comments. This is getting pathetic
and yes same label everything else is correct must be some anomaly in the universe that changed that and nothing else conveniently saves eBay some money and if caught can blame the seller
@luckythewinner wrote: ... The USPS retail counter rate limit is 13 oz, and the 16 oz limit only applies to online commercial rates.
I think the USPS requires eBay to use 15.9 oz instead of 16 oz because otherwise it would rejected as having insufficient postage.....
That was true for First Class packages, before the introduction of Ground Advantage. But now the weight brackets for Retail and Commercial for Ground Advantage are identical (see below).
However, the pricing is handled differently: For Retail, the prices for 15.999 ounces and for 1 pound are the same, but for Commercial, weirdly, the price for exactly 1 pound is higher than the price for 15.999 ounces: This is apparently the source of the OP's underpayment fees when eBay's label reports that the seller paid for 15.999 ounces (which eBay abbreviates as 15.9 ounces).
IMHO the most practical solution to this is rather than fight eBay's glitch, go along with it, pay for 15.9 ounces and then if USPS decides that the package is actually 1 full pound, they will collect the underpayment for it. AFAIK, there are no penalties incurred from either USPS nor from eBay (other than the payment itself) when a seller gets billed for label underpayment. And finally, I'm wondering how many packages actually fall into that tiny tiny weight difference between 15.999 ounces and 16 ounces?? Those are the only packages that should be affected by this situation.
I don't understand the OP's comment about 7 ounces, perhaps more detail is needed here or perhaps there is some fundamental confusion about measuring and reporting package weights.
