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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 shipping and extra postage

Hello, So I've been selling on ebay this whole past year and have done quite well. 18,000+ trading cards sold and have gotten my handle on the business well. I've changed my shipping method to a way that's the most minimum/efficient and goes exactly ...

Standard Shipping

What is standard Shipping ? what delevirey service will deliver my package ?

Overcharged shipping

Hi, the listing for an item I recently purchased said shipping would be Canadian $50.48, but I was charged C$63.21. When I sent screenshots of both to the shipper and asked them to refund the $12.73 overcharge, they said, "The shipping is calculated ...

Resolved! Shipping label mix up on two expensive items - Buyer in South Korea used shipping agency

Thanks in advance for any help. Somehow I swapped the labels on two items. Both are worth ~$200 but are not similar. These were shipped to US addresses. After I heard about the issue from one buyer, I messaged both to ask if I could send them each a ...

eBay Standard Envelope - "Delivered" but not Delivered

I am having a reocurring problem with the eBay Standard Envelope showing "Delivered" when it physically has not been delivered yet. It usually shows up a day or two later. The issue is that some buyers freak out and think that their "Delivered" envel...

My ebay envelopes are getting returned Claiming they are non-machinable.

I eBay envelopes are getting returned. Post office is now saying they are non-machinable when I have sent many packages identical. You have to spend $1.08 on each envelope now or they will not ship it. Mailman left 20 in the rain today.

Combined Shipping Changes?

I may be in the minority, not knowing this, but if a customer purchased 2 items from you, and did it as 2 separate orders, you used to be able to print the shipping label for one and copy and paste it into the other and it accepted it and worked just...

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USPS Delays

We don't need letters from eBay telling us how they are monitoring the situation. We need eBays action. Protections are all well and good , but buyers are getting sick and tired of hearing that that their packages are late and we can't even tell them...

Do people still tip their mailperson?

I know it's pretty old fashioned and there are rules regarding it ($$ value less than 20, etc.) but do any of you do it, traditionally around the Holidays? My mailman is great (I personally don't) so not sure if this is common or not.

Blocking out the barcodes of Priority Boxes for Cubic Pricing

Since the Regional rates have been gone for awhile, I'm sure many more sellers have been using Cubic since then. Has anyone gotten any issues with cutting down some of these boxes (not flat rate ones) to stay within a cubic tier threshold but not cov...

Resolved! Ebay Standard shipping

So, I just noticed that all the supposive tracking numbers provided by eBay standard shipping. No longer show tracking status. When yawl came out with this program it was supposed to make things easier. I've ran into problem after problem with this p...

Global Shipping Outrage

I am outraged a "policy" in Global shipping. I purchased a 60 year old vintage amplifier that has been deemed restricted. It will now be destroyed instead of returned to the seller. This unit is not replaceable! What an outrage, and there id no way t...

How do I purchase additional postage on Ebay?

I cannot seem to find the answer to this question, so hopefully someone will see it and know the answer. Here it is: After purchasing a shipping label and realizing my package requires additional postage, how do I purchase the extra postage? I sell a...

combined shipping

I am trying to combine shipping. I have been at this for over an hour. I even printed off the directions, but it won't allow me to change the rates already posted. It won't let me adjust the size of the package either. Now, it has even erased the pre...

Resolved! Buyer purchased/paid for an item and then asked me to wait to ship

I had a buyer purchase and pay for an item last night and then sent me a message asking me to wait to ship until after April 10th. I don't know what to do in this case. If I don't purchase and print the label do I get some sort of strike to my accoun...