I do understand that we're still in the middle of a pandemic and by default things are still not running at 100%, but is this shipping shipping speed to be expected moving forward? I feel my 5 star shipping speed will significantly fall after all 35 of my shipments that used this service this week are delivered. All 11 of the tracking numbers show almost 10-12 days to deliver. 5 full days to go 7 miles from my local post office to the sorting facility. With that being said does anyone actually have the posted average shipping times for this new envelope service? I shipped out 11 envelopes on Monday 2/1/21 only to have them scanned into at our local USPS sorting facility today 2/6/21. While this service is very fast it was obviously not cost effective for a buyer to spend say $1.50 for a card and $4.00 for shipping. I'm currently awaiting 10 cards purchased and mailed to me using eBay standard envelopes, dating back to April 16th.I've searched through these messages boards, but was unable to find a post/topic that specifically answers my questions, so my apologizes if this is a double post.Ībout 3-4 months in to the Trading Card business, prior to this new eBay Standard Envelope service I shipped the cheaper sports/TCG cards I sold in a 4 x 6 bubble mailer via USPS First Class like many of you probably did also. eBay isn't much better themselves, but the PO system despises any type of change, ever. The biggest flaw with eBay's standard envelopes is that they require the PO to do their job. And as far as the 90 degree thing, and the PO saying it can't be done, new credit cards are sent in envelopes in the mail all the time, and those wouldn't survive a 90 degree bend either! (Unless there is just a disgruntled post master.) They should just put the envelopes with all the other regular envelope mail. I think the main issue occurs at the distribution center, just with them getting rejected for random reasons. All of the cards I receive sent via eBay standard envelope are in top loaders, and they seem to pass though everything ok. (Yet, anyway!) I actually prefer sellers to send me cards this way, as I've received many more damaged cards sent in bubble mailers. įor what it is worth, I have not received any damaged cards sent via eBay standard envelope, nor have I had anyone say theirs arrived damaged that I sold. I asked point blank HOW am I supposed to ship these cards in an envelope that MUST be bendable using ebays standard envelope process? Im trying desperately to get answers before my next round of sales goes through because this is nightmare fuel if im selling hundreds of cards each week! Watch the video and tell me what im supposed to do now. The problem the PO had was that they said a letter must be passed through a snake like system that MUST allow the envelope to bend at a maximum 90 degrees so that is a huge fail! I called eBay support and was turned around in circles 2 times about non issues that had NOTHING to do with the problem. Now I met ALL criteria via the ebay rules its under 3 ounces its in a standard letter size envelope and its under 1/4 inch thick. So I called the local PO and was lectured about how eBay has been screwing the PO over for years and that sending sports cards this way is NOT ALLOWED! I have video I will post here as well so you can see my interaction with the post master. I received 9 envelops back in my post today with POSTAGE DUE and a letter from the post master stating, "THESE ARE PACKAGES NOT ENVELOPES" To my shock i panicked and thought maybe they were heavier than I thought so i threw them on my scale and to my surprise the heaviest package was 1.8 ounces. The monster problem of all problems arose today. People receiving bent sports cards have been the biggest issue. Ive been shipping sports cards using the aforementioned way for the last few months with minor issues here and there. Im going to post alot of information here and ask for help from the community and eBay.
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