Usps is absolutely ridiculous

yankee · #45 06-18-2016

You can also just call into your post office and ask for a daily relay business pickup. It is that easy and they come monday-saturday and scan your forms late in the day.

phaz0rz · #46 06-19-2016

My pickup location is a bit rural. I would feel bad if I had my mail carrier drive an extra 50 miles at the end of her shift every day, lol.

I am moving soon though so I'll keep that in mind

yaBeh8ater · #47 06-19-2016

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Originally Posted by phaz0rz

My pickup location is a bit rural. I would feel bad if I had my mail carrier drive an extra 50 miles at the end of her shift every day, lol.

I am moving soon though so I'll keep that in mind

he probably lives on top of mt. rainier.

Retailer77 · #48 06-19-2016

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Originally Posted by yankee

In all reality, odds are, if you have no scan at all, the item was never brought to the post office.

Who brings items to the post office? That sounds incredibly silly to me. They will come to your door and scan your forms and pick up your items everyday except sunday for free.

Yankee this sounds good but if your selling high value items do you think it would be better to go to post office in person and receive an actual receipt instead?

GreenBean · #49 06-19-2016

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Originally Posted by Retailer77

Yankee this sounds good but if your selling high value items do you think it would be better to go to post office in person and receive an actual receipt instead?

Have you never considered having a home pick up?

Takes all this stress off you.

Our CO accounts have home pick up...

Sweetest thing ever. Items are always traceable. Improved stress levels.

yankee · #50 06-19-2016

what the heck is this receipt you are talking about?

I have no clue what you mean by a receipt. What does it do? For your accounting records? If so just use a credit card.....

Retailer77 · #51 06-19-2016

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Originally Posted by yankee

what the heck is this receipt you are talking about?

I have no clue what you mean by a receipt. What does it do? For your accounting records? If so just use a credit card.....

When you have your item scanned in the post office you get a receipt that all items have been scanned with tracking on the receipt for all items.
I would not get this receipt if used carrier pickup from my location

yankee · #52 06-19-2016

Who cares?

You lost me. You do realize that you track items online and that whatever service you used to print the label stores the tracking number?

Sorry if I sound like I am talking to a child about how tracking works, but I have no clue what in the world you would need a piece of paper for for tracking numbers. Even back in 2003 when I started selling online, tracking numbers were online if you printed a label using the internet and I can only assume you are doing this and not handwritten labels like rsot stupidly and consistently suggests. He would be the only person on this forum that ignorant to do that.

Retailer77 · #53 06-19-2016

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Originally Posted by yankee

Who cares?

You lost me. You do realize that you track items online and that whatever service you used to print the label stores the tracking number?

Sorry if I sound like I am talking to a child about how tracking works, but I have no clue what in the world you would need a piece of paper for for tracking numbers. Even back in 2003 when I started selling online, tracking numbers were online if you printed a label using the internet and I can only assume you are doing this and not handwritten labels like rsot stupidly and consistently suggests. He would be the only person on this forum that ignorant to do that.

...yes I know.
My point was that if I get a receipt from the post office it is PROOF that I did in fact drop the item off. So in the event that I need to file an insurance claim on a package that never showed a single scan or did nit get received by the buyer I can.
Whereas if I was not given this receipt there's NO PROOF that I even dropped it off at the post office. (Which would mean as far as they are concerned means no insurance $$ since there's no proof of p.o. receiving the package)

yankee · #54 06-19-2016

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Originally Posted by Retailer77

...yes I know.
My point was that if I get a receipt from the post office it is PROOF that I did in fact drop the item off. So in the event that I need to file an insurance claim on a package that never showed a single scan or did nit get received by the buyer I can.
Whereas if I was not given this receipt there's NO PROOF that I even dropped it off at the post office. (Which would mean as far as they are concerned means no insurance $$ since there's no proof of p.o. receiving the package)

If you have ZERO scan at all in days, check your office, automobile, trash, etc...and look for unprinted labels in pdf etc....

Retailer77 · #55 06-19-2016

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Originally Posted by yankee

If you have ZERO scan at all in days, check your office, automobile, trash, etc...and look for unprinted labels in pdf etc....

So your pretty much saying the possibility of it being stolen is low and that it must simply be lying around somewhere...
I am positive I shipped the item out..the point I was making is a simple one.

If you simply drop the item off at the p.o. and leave, then there is no transit status whatsoever within a week after drop off...you cannot claim insurance on the lost package because as far as the post office is concerned, leaving it in the drop box is as good as them never receiving the item in the first place

VERSUS

if you have the p.o. clerk scan in your items and PRINT OUT a receipt for you with all the items tracking numbers, you CAN CLAIM insurance if the transit status is for any reason not uploaded to ebay or shows as manifest the entire time BECAUSE you have proof of receival from the p.o. which is the RECEIPT

yankee · #56 06-19-2016

No, what I am saying is that if you operated like a business, packages will be scanned and these time wasting disasters no longer exist.

You think very micro. Fix the cause of the problem is typically a better option that putting a bandaid on a broken bone while creating the least productive use of time and resources.

Would Walmart, Target, BestBuy etc....send a minimum wage earning employee to the post office to stand in line and get a "receipt"? Of course not. They are ba business and operate like one. They have UPS, FEDEX, USPS come to the door and perform the service in front on an employee for free.

Anyways, do as you see best. Learning from mistakes is not always easy for people but the ones who learn from them the fastest reap the greatest results.

GreenBean · #57 06-19-2016

If you have operated like this before you joined here, then you need to take a quantum leap and find the systems that work for you.

All we are seeing is chaos, and that does lead to disaster.

Is this your full time occupation?

unkown5454 · #58 06-19-2016

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Originally Posted by GreenBean

Is this your full time occupation?

OP claims sales near $90k week. I'm blow away someone can operate that kind of business and not understand shipping. Assuming everything he has posted is actually truth.

Retailer77 · #59 06-19-2016

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Originally Posted by unkown5454

OP claims sales near $90k week. I'm blow away someone can operate that kind of business and not understand shipping. Assuming everything he has posted is actually truth.

60/week not 90

unkown5454 · #60 06-19-2016

Even if you just sold $1,000/week, there is almost no excuse for the bottomless amount of confusion going on in this thread. $3mm/year is a very serious business to be running, yet you come across as a prete.en selling homemade stickers on Et.sy.

Onion · #61 06-20-2016

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Originally Posted by unkown5454

Even if you just sold $1,000/week, there is almost no excuse for the bottomless amount of confusion going on in this thread. $3mm/year is a very serious business to be running, yet you come across as a prete.en selling homemade stickers on Et.sy.

Great post, now I have to clean all the coffee I just spat up all over my computer screen!

joesshooze · #62 06-20-2016

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Originally Posted by matthewaj

In the future, just take it to another post office. Your packages aren't scanned in because the employees there simply decided not to do it, most of the time my packages are scanned in an hour after they're dropped off. Most of the time when the initial post office doesn't scan it in, it will update when it reaches the first sorting facility or reaches the buyer's delivering post office.

Matthewaj is very right. I know for a fact my USPS branch does not scan very often. When I go to another branch they get scanned every time. Yes USPS does suck but it would be hell without them. As long as there is a solution can go on to the next challenge.

pennslmmer · #63 06-25-2016

I'd advice that you wait in line and have them weight and scan the package. Get a receipt as well. I had buyers open cases claiming that I sent them empty packages. Luckily, those receipt I kept shows that the package I dropped off weight 4lbs. If the item cost $100 or more, I'd not advice for you to hand it to the mailman or just left it at their counter because someone could just take it and walk away. And of course, ALWAYS insure your package.

unkown5454 · #64 06-25-2016

why in the world would one call theirself pe.nis slimmer

yaBeh8ater · #65 06-25-2016

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Originally Posted by GreenBean

If you have operated like this before you joined here, then you need to take a quantum leap and find the systems that work for you.

All we are seeing is chaos, and that does lead to disaster.

Is this your full time occupation?

theorizing that one could travel through time, retailer77 stepped into the quantum leap accelerator and vanished!

just had to do this!

james13v · #66 07-24-2016

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Originally Posted by Retailer77

200-300/week average value per unit $300

See? This is you, telling us you sell $300k a month.