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Seller Protections are in place for sellers impacted by severe weather

The United States is currently experiencing severe weather across multiple regions, including the Pacific Northwest, Great Lakes, and Northeast. We are actively monitoring conditions and assessing potential impacts to shipping and delivery operations...

Resolved! Ebay changes expected arrival dates once item ships/ buyers can file a late request even if not late

USPS is already experiencing some significant delays. I have had first class packages take 3 weeks to arrive, and lots of misrouting. I print my labels on a DYMO printer and 4x6 stickers. I usually ship same or next day. I decided to extend my handli...

Resolved! Media Mail Shipping Label Dilemna

I sell Decorative Tole Painting books. Before the changes eBay has made in the last year, I was able to list these books under the crafts category and ship the books out using Media Mail. They do qualify as media mail. I took a couple of years off eB...

Resolved! Creating a New Shipping Policy

I am attempting to add another shipping policy, but when I click create or edit from the computer revise your listing page, I get a message stating www.ebay.com refused to connect. This has never happened before. I want to add USPS large box flat rat...

Hard to believe

This angers me more than I can express. This is somewhat lengthy. I was shopping for a specific type of 12 ton shop press. I ordered one from walmart/ jegs. After it was a week late walmart said it's stuck in ohio, it's two boxes at 80lbs total and t...

hi guys

So now how to transport goods to countries

eBay Standard Envelope - The Best/Worse Delivery Option - A Deep Dive of what I've discovered.

Hello everyone, I've been using the eBay Standard Envelope to ship trading cards since it's inception earlier this year. While it's a great cheap option for shipping cards it does come with some drawbacks that I will detail below. 1. This by far is t...

Shipping to Italy

I shipped an order from Japan to Italy in September. The tracking information shows arrival in Italy a few days later, however, it has not been updated since. My post office says it might be stuck in customs and recommend contacting the customs offic...

Buyer Asked For Shipping Address Change

Soon after purchasing an item Sunday morning, my buyer asked if I could change their listed shipping address as they had moved. I replied that yes I could change it to the address they provided, but please update it to ensure all purchases will be se...

Is anyone else seeing this when making listings?

I am seeing strange shipping options when listing or revising listings. The screenshot shows kind of what I am seeing. First everything is only USPS and there is nothing regarding international shipping. I have reached out to eBay and gotten little t...

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Shipping Way Off!

Good morning! I have been on eBay a long time. Over the course of this time I have had more than a few instances where it appears that the shipping calculator was off. I have always reported this to eBay and I was told that they have received other r...

I cant find a buyers phone number after eBay new design update

I'm selling internationally, most of shipping companies request destination (receiver) phone number, and it is mandatory in order to ship it. before, the phone number of the buyer was appear under his address, but with new eBay design it is not there...

Shipping labels change shipping options

USPS First Class is twice the price than what the shipping calculator is saying

This started happening last week. I list the item with weight. Check the shipping calculator to see the lowest shippings. 3 items have said $2.16. I'm offering free shipping. So, when I go to ship the item through Ebay of Pirate Ship, it says $3.81. ...

USPS is shrinking some of their Priority Mail (some flat rate too) packaging

https://blog.stamps.com/2021/10/15/free-usps-priority-mail-boxes-to-become-smaller/?fbclid=IwAR3Io16snoXWuLQj6xKdM-swaExe6w1HhXZiwPl3uOZcJjtN4O57nHRVREM

Strange Extra Address Line

Hello, I'm packaging up a buyer's item and I'm taking it to the post office tomorrow, but I'm very confused by the address. Obviously I will not disclose the address here, but there is a strange combination of numbers and letters below the main stree...