eBay Aug 1, 2017 Shipping and Underpaid Postage Announcement: Typos

[mangorunner]

While looking for some shipping information, I came across this eBay announcement from last August:

USPS Begins Automated Package Verification, Changing Underpaid Postage Procedure

The first sentence of the third paragraph is written very awkwardly and confusingly:

"Previously, USPS packages with underpaid postage were either rejected of help for the recipient by USPS who required the recipient to pay the difference."

With eBay's use of the word "either", I expected an either/or explanation.  Did they mean this?:

Previously, USPS packages with underpaid postage were either rejected or held for the recipient by USPS who required the recipient to pay the difference.

[partial*eclipse]

Yes, undoubtedly they meant "rejected or held".

[mangorunner]

Thanks, @partial*eclipse.

I wonder... how can something like that go for more than six months without being corrected?

[partial*eclipse · Accepted solution]

Probably nobody read the announcement carefully enough to notice.  In this particular example, readers' focus would have been on the newsy part of the message, leading them to gloss over the paragraph that reviewed the status quo.  

And if anybody did notice (and care), there's no easy way to notify eBay about it, or to identify who at eBay might care enough and have the authorization to change it. 

[mangorunner]

LOL! And right! And thanks!