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Holiday Shipping Dates

We’ve published the carriers' last days to ship for on-time holiday delivery using the services available through eBay Labels. These dates will help ensure your buyers receive their orders in time for the holidays. You can find the details at ebay.co...

eBay Standard Envelope

I have been shipping low value baseball trade cards in an eBay standard envelope to reduce buyer shipping cost. Tracking is hit-and-miss as expected with this shipping method but once delivery is made tracking is updated to show that the envelope has...

Items Sold Not Being Marked As "Delivered" Upon Delivery

Essentially, what the title says. I’m new to selling on eBay and have sold 12 items so far—mostly trading cards, nothing major. For the last few items I’ve sold, I’ve noticed that they haven’t been marked as ‘delivered,’ even though I’ve received fee...

ESE's Tracking

eBay All of my ESEs have not had any tracking updates since Wednesday Feb 12 2025What gives?

Problems with tracking on baseball cards

The Ebay tracking on first class envelopes does not work. Three baseball cards sold recently, none have completed tracking info on them such as DELIVERED! USPS can't track these envelopes at all as they all start with ESUS...... The only upside is th...

USPS Tracking

Anyone else having issues with USPS tracking reporting? I sometimes use the Trading Card Envelope Label for light, small items under $20.00 sent in an envelope, but after leaving my postal area the tracking stops and I do not know if item was receive...

Resolved! ESE for trading cards issue?

I have noticed that since February 6th, none of eBay standard envelopes for trading cards have received an origin scan from my local sorting facility, not have they received any destination scans. However, I have confirmed with some buyers that their...

USPS Tracking Systems Not Updating After 2/4

NOTE: It appears that it might just be isolated as others are reporting no issues. Just thought I would check, thanks to all that respond! Anyone have anything in transit that they can track and see if they have any tracking updates since afternoon 2...

eBay standard envelope tracking

Lately I’ve gotten burned a few times with customers submitting item not received claims. I deal mainly with low end trading cards so people want cheap shipping. I know my item was shipped. I just cannot prove it because there is zero tracking inform...

Selling an Item on a Saturday

Hi, I'm a relatively new casual seller, although I have sold a couple of items. Today (Saturday), I sold an item. If I print my shipping label today, will the post office accept it on Monday? Or, should I wait until Monday to print and send it out? e...

eBay Standard Envelope (eSE) Tracking Issue Resolved

As of February 25, the issue has been resolved and all tracking events have been updated for impacted shipments. Thank you for selling on eBay. Posted 02/22/25: We are aware of an issue with eBay Standard Envelope shipments not displaying tracking ev...

Resolved! eBay's Media Mail inconsistency: I can't use it but other sellers can for same item in same category

Someone please explain how other sellers can list the exact same item I have (a gaming book) in the exact same category (Toys & Hobbies / Games / Role Playing Games / Fantasy) & yet these other sellers are able to use USPS Media Mail as the primary s...

Shipping internationally from denmark

Im from denmark and want to ship to otter countries but cant figure out what shipping method to use to be alle to, what do i do? Thanks

Shipping to APO AE

So I already purchased a first-class shipping label to ship to the buyer. Then I was told it would need to also have a customs form attached to it. Do I need to buy a new label to send it to an APO in AE?? And how do I go about doing so?

eBay refusing to honour quoted shipping costs

Hi, After a week of waiting on a response via email (still nothing). I asked for a call via the auto chat to discuss my inability to purchase a shipping label. The first CSR told me my payment for seller account needed to be updated. So I did. I went...

Privatizing the USPS

According to the Washington Post, Trump is seriously considering privatizing the USPS. I am very, very, worried. Your thoughts? Trump eyes privatizing U.S. Postal Service, citing financial losses