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Do I have to use shipping labels?

I'm looking to sell magic cards on eBay and I was wondering if I could just use an envelope with my buyer's address written on it instead of an envelope since the package would be small enough. Thanks in advance!

Resolved! Stuck At Pre-Shipment

So I dropped a package off on Monday to USPS, it is now Friday and on tracking it still says pre shipment and normally by now I would at least see something be updated in tracking, Is this normal, or something do with with the holidays and the virus?

Buyers able to get around an excluded shipping location!

I have had this problem about a half dozen times over the past year and have reported this to ebay and they either don't seem to know how to fix it or don't care. I have my excluded shipping locations set up to exclude the Russian federation. Yest th...

The Postal Service employs more than 600,000 workers but

and they couldn't get a package that was 30 mins away too me in less then a week .

High shipping volumes are causing some delays. Please allow extra time.

The USPS is charging higher rates during the holiday season and taking even longer to deliver. What other business can do this?

How eBay Should have handled shipping this Holiday Season

No news here. USPS a total mess. UPS and FedEx seem to be doing much better. eBay should have put a full court press on getting people NOT to use USPS this holiday season. They should have encouraged other carries. Most importantly, eBay has clout wi...

What the heck is going on with post office deliveries?

I shipped an item in 12/2 to a buyer and the priority mail tracking shows no updates since it left my home town for the hub in Casper WY. My buyer is understandably upset and wants to know when he will receive his item. Calls to the post office provi...

If the USPS has severe delays in shipping packages, what about letters?

One of my recently sold items I shipped Priority Mail on December 2nd is still stuck in transit (as of Dec. 13th). That package was going from Massachusetts to West Virginia. I am shipping another Priority Mail package tomorrow (Monday, Dec. 14th) al...

Painful Lesson Learned

All year, I've been using a mix of media mail, 1st class, and priority mail - no real issues, shipping around eight items per day. Starting Dec 6, everything changed. I have a large number of shipments that aren't moving - not at all. I'm estimating ...

"Glitchy" problems with labels again

This is the 3rd time recently that ebay shipping calculator charged a buyer incorrectly.I go to Purchase & Print a shipping label and find that it had "CARRIER PACKAGING" selected, which only gives PRIORITY FLAT RATE OPTIONS.Example 1:The listing is ...

How to view recent Fedex Charges on the "not yet invoiced" part of seller hub

Last week I shipped everything Fedex because USPS is so slow now. My experience with this is that you get a "quote" on the buy-a-label page, but Fedex sometimes actually charges you more for some reason. So now there are charges are coming in- I can ...

Resolved! Can't Print a label for an APO -

In Settings: I only ship within North America; and to APO's; All other locations are excluded.Buyers with addresses where I don't ship to are supposed to be excluded from seeing my listings. Somebody with an APO address made a purchase. They purchase...

Resolved! Any way to retrieve lost tracking number if the receipt is lost?

I mailed a package priority with required signature, and when I later went to enter the tracking info for the buyer, I realized somehow I lost the USPS receipt. My first time ever making this blunder. The package has been mailed, understandably the b...

More Bad USPS News

I was at one of the Virginia USPS regional distribution centers this morning, Sunday 13 December, dropping off the last two items I had to ship. These were items that I was unable to pull before I elected to curtail any further listings until either ...