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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...

Did UPS just raise rates thru the roof?

I ship fishing rods and tackle boxes thru UPS, I took them off the last week of December but when I relisted them this week I noticed rates jumped, I don't mean a little but alot. My fishing rods shipping jumped from $13 to $19. I noticed it when I w...

Addresses paste as a single line in Stamps.com

I keep forgetting to ask but since eBay no longer pays us with PayPal I now have to copy the shipping address from the sales record instead of the PayPal payment like I used to and it always copies on a single line and I have to break it back up manu...

Shipping Label Created, USPS Awaiting Item

I've had a bunch of purchases over Christmas and all of them gave me tracking numbers which updated regularly except for OSM (slow POS service IMO) and then there's this guy. It's been sitting at "shipping label created" since the 29th. I asked the s...

Resolved! How to calculate the cost with insurance for an expensive item

I usually ship items that are at or under $300. I have an item I'm looking to sell, it's a new unopened ECU for an outboard. It retails for $2650. I haven't sold anything this expensive before and I want to be sure to put the right shipping amount th...

Resolved! Orders shipped still show as "awaiting shipment"

Since beginning of May, the orders that have already been shipped show up in the submenu "awaiting shipment". The have the tracking number and the label "shipped", but still, it is confusing, if not alarming, to see them there. Has anyone experience ...

eBay Standard Envelopes and US Protectorates

I received an order for 1 regular basketball trading card. The buyer was located in Puerto Rico. The buyer picked the eBay Standard Envelope shipping method. I charge $1.50 + $0.25 for each additional charge. ( I figure if I have to ship first class ...

eBay Missing the Small Flat Rate Box Option

Anyone else have this random but annoying issue come up? I've already contacted someone from customer service more than once this week about it but I'd like to know if any other sellers are having the same problem. When I go to sell anything the opti...

USPS 2023 January Price Changes (Proposed)

FYI -effective Jan. 22https://faq.usps.com/s/article/2023-Postage-Price-Changes

seller says he received a damaged item from ups shipping

i sold a electric bike battery with ups on ebay for someone in brooklyn sept. 6th then on the 7th, the seller claims: "I saw the ups guy today and he showed me the box and it had a whole in and nothing inside. What do we do about my money?" i check t...

eBay standard shipping

Efficiently shipping rolled posters to make it worth selling them?

I have around 50+ 1970s 1980s posters to get rid of. Many years ago, I sorted out and sold the high value ones, ex Farrah, Heather Thomas, ect..The ones I have now may have values of $15 to $30 each. I'm trying to decide if it's worth my time selling...

Combined Shipping policy... What works?

Hi there, I am in need a some guidance. I have been trying for a long time now to figure out the combined shipping. I have tried the combined weight, which makes astronomical postage amounts. Even eBay says to do it that way. I tried to set up the mi...

Underpaid shipping blues

Today I recieved what seemed to be my 900th underpaid shipping message where eBay takes said amount directly from me. With that said package in question label said 10.08 oz and actually weighed 13.8 oz right there is concerning I purchase my labels t...

New Postage Info for Jan 22 according to Pirate Ship

Got this in an email the other day from Pirate Ship... (granted its pro pirate ship, but may be helpful) Here's what's going to change on January 22nd:Zone 1 & Zone 2 are splitting! There will now be different rates for the destinations closest to yo...

Fedex shipping discounts decreased and no discount on Fedex home delivery/ground? glitch?

Is anyone else seeing their FedEx shipping discounts lower than last week and there is now absolutely no discount on a FedEx home or ground package anymore. Is this a glitch?