@zayresells wrote:
Hello reader,
... I had the shipping postage (the one that I first used) already saved on my computer so I reprinted the postage and I just put a fresh one on the package. ...
Do you mean that you reprinted the original shipping label, and stuck the reprinted label on the package, and shipped it with that? I don't know why you would have done that. Basically, you cheated the post office. You can't reuse a label that has already been scanned into the post office system.
There's no way to know what is going to happen to the package. It might get rejected by the post office at some point, if a worker notices the discrepancy in the tracking number. It might get delivered anyway. But, there's a good chance that it won't get scanned, or if it does that the scans will be rejected (as errors) because the tracking # already has a delivery scan on it. So the chances are that even if your buyer receives it, there will never be a delivery scan to the buyer's location.
There's no way to "reset" the tracking number, so that it will show normal scans again.
If it just continues to show that the package was returned to the seller, then if the buyer says they didn't receive it, you will have to refund them. If they don't start a case, then your funds will be released after 21 days.
I once received two packages, a couple of days apart, with duplicate shipping labels on them. Slightly different situation, the seller shipped my purchase to me, and the delivery proceeded as normal, with scans in-transit, then out-for-delivery, and then delivered. But, the seller also printed another copy of my label, and by mistake, put the copy of my label onto a package meant for someone else, and shipped it a couple of days after mine.
There was no sign of any scans on the second package, until the day when the first package went out for delivery. After the out-for-delivery scan, there was another scan of the tracking number at the sorting station about 35 miles away. Then, the first package was delivered and scanned, and there were no more scans on that tracking number, but a couple of days later, the second package was delivered (without a delivery scan). I saw the identical labels, and realized the seller's mistake (and cooperated with him to get the second package to it's buyer).
So ... the second package going through the system with the same tracking number, only had one scan that showed up in the system, which is why I suspect there's an error-detection algorithm , which prevented anomolous scans on the tracking number (from the second package) from being accepted into the post office system. That's why I suspect that your second label MAY NOT get any scans.
