Me too! One of the other employees has told me USPS is accepting shipment from China and they come through our post office daily. I have asked the post master about my order to Ireland and they stand by the original statement. So frustrating as I don't want to make an enemy here.
My customer has patiently waited 6 weeks and I have refunded the purchase. I have a suspicion some postal worker in Chicago swiped it and it has conveniently quit tracking. The customs label gave very basic information as not to draw unneeded attention.
Last year I shipped an order to Hawaii, customer chose parcel select shipping. The order sat in San Francisco until the bin was full enough to ship. 3 weeks passed and the buyer wanted a refund on a no show order. Ebay said to refund and a few days later I refunded. Few days later and tracking showed it was delivered to the mailbox. I email the buyer daily for 3 days and got no response. Ebay told me that because I 'chose' to refund they had no recourse. Post office said it could be considered fraud and I could try to recover my item or money, but said it would be a long drawn out task. So I cut my losses and chalked it up to doing business on line. All of my listings now over a certain $ amount are priority only to stop this from happening again.
