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Seller Protections are in place for shipping delays.

The United States is experiencing severe weather across several regions of the country, and we are tracking impacts to shipping and delivery. Our primary concern is that you and your close ones stay safe. However, you may also be concerned about ship...

Buyer purchased 2 heavy items which will need to ship seperately but ebay appears to combine them

Buyer purchased 2 heavy items and they need to be shipped separately. ebay appears to have combined them into 1 and only allows for me to print 1 shipping label. How can I send this shipment in 2 boxes each with its own shipping label? Can I create/p...

Signature / Insure when Shipping to Authenticator?

I just sold a watch and am about to ship it to the authenticator. Should I add on signature confirmation and insure it and will that apply when it gets shipped to the buyer or just to the authenticator?

FedEx & eBaY Rate SCAM - Dimensional Weight

So, when selling larger items I usually use FedEx due to the shipping rates being much lower. Two times in the last week I get a shipping adjustment email from Fedex/Ebay. Apparently Fedex is now applying a concept called Dimensional Weight which cha...

Resolved! Do anyone get defects on they seller ratings cause USPS drivers DO NOT scan picked up packages?

Do this happen to you much? Them USPS drivers (IF NOT REGULAR DRIVER WHO DO GREAT) they just grab packages and go. Some drove around with packages up to 4 days before turning in. Lazy local post office may or may not scan the packages and same for Me...

Bought labels through eBay post office says this tracking # not valid for prepaid acceptance

Item sold on eBay overnight, bought a label through eBay as I always do. Nothing seemed out of place or different than the hundreds of other labels I've bought previously, but when I went to drop it off at the post office the clerk scanned it and it ...

Buyer Management Parameters

What I don't understand why Buyer Management parameters are not enforced especially when the buyer resides on a regional site (UK, Germany..etc) I am getting abusive buyers who comes through promoted ads from regional eBay sites who don't make the pa...

Multiple USPS Mail Pieces Missing, Not Reaching Destinations

Since January I have had multiple issues with USPS not delivering mail. Just stuck in the system not doing anything for weeks. WEEKS, not days. It is beyond annoying at this point. Seriously, 6 pieces of mail not getting delivered. 2 have been resolv...

Indiana Government Sends Letter to Post Monster Dejoy about Indianapolis Mail Delays

Just read that the Indiana legislators are sending a letter to our fave postmaster about all the mess he is making at the Indianapolis USPS distribution center. People without their medicine, important paper, EBAY PACKAGES. ETC. IT’S A BLAST FROM THE...

USPS is Worthless.

The USPS is so derelict in their duty's that a month is not uncommon for a package. It has never been this bad, maybe the pony express.

Shipping label doesn’t match shipping service!

I’ve been selling on eBay for 2 months. Only recently have I started seeing “shipping label doesn’t match shipping service used” and being charged extra. I enter the correct weight and sizes. I verify services. And even after when I look further afte...

Resolved! Adjusting Shipping Address

I'm trying to ship an item out and the buyer updated me prior to shipment that they needed the order shipped to another address. When I tried to put the updated address in, I wasn't able to change the zip code. Now the order is giving me the warning ...

USPS has pkgs sitting in storage container for days without touching them & NOT due to bad weather?

From someone that is a postal worker telling me there are canvas storage containers on rollers that are full of mail, packages just sitting there waiting for someone to get to them, sort, and get them moving onto next destination. I am seller and buy...

Printer problem and total earnings

Hello all--Big problem here. I made a sale this morning and tried to print the eBay shipping label, but my printer wouldn't print it. I tried everything to get it to work, retrying and retrying. My printer finally printed the label, but now I'm seein...

A POSSIBLE Post Office problem.

On Weds. 02/12, I visited my primary P.O., which is the main location in my city. When I approached the counter basket to deposit my prepaid items, it was missing and the entire area was blocked off. Next, I entered a line and when it was my turn, qu...

USPS marked delivered but never received, HELP! for vendors and customers!!!

Help for customers and vendors!Ever had a package marked as delivered by the USPS but you never received it? Here’s some help:#1. Please wait a day or two! (well, at least one day) because the post office has deadlines and because of this, they will ...