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Title: Re: Ebay steering people away from USPS ?
Post by: Tadfafty on September 23, 2020, 10:24:56 pm
USPS was trying to slow things down
Title: Re: Ebay steering people away from USPS ?
Post by: J.Jackson on September 21, 2020, 10:58:51 am
Quote from: St Paul Steam on September 20, 2020, 09:21:49 pm

I was getting ready to print off a address label for a parcel on eBay that I had sold & while in the process , this warning popped up, never seen anything like this before.
USPS routing through major hub in Chicago, Il is currently experiencing a rash of violent shootings. Since you are in Indiana,  perhaps the warning is a regional message from ebay.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-postal-workers-threaten-to-stop-delivering-mail-after-multiple-employees-shot-on-the-job

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/12/us/usps-employee-chicago-shooting-trnd/index.html
Title: Re: Ebay steering people away from USPS ?
Post by: Hero on September 21, 2020, 09:24:26 am
USPS is the only way to go for me in Canada (especially for cost, but also for celerity, reliability, convenience).

You know what they say: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."  I think Herodotus got it right.
Title: Re: Ebay steering people away from USPS ?
Post by: classixs on September 21, 2020, 03:25:46 am
Same all the way over here Nick  :)

USPS does work exclusively with Royal Danish Mail, and packages gets delivered to my door...or the local grocerystore, which serves a a "post office" out here in the rural parts.
FedEx/UPS parcels, does get other private contractors to deliver.
FedEx is´t all bad, as they use contractors with reasonably close local drop-point coverage.
UPS specifically has a very poor service, with choices being closest pick-up 45 mins away...or a full day of work, to be at home to sign within their insane 12 hour delivery-window from 7AM-7PM.
Title: Re: Ebay steering people away from USPS ?
Post by: Nick on September 20, 2020, 11:04:35 pm
I prefer USPS as both FedEx and UPS make me drive 20 mins away if I miss delivery, where the post office is right down the street. Haven’t bought much lately, so haven’t experienced any shipping delays.
Title: Re: Ebay steering people away from USPS ?
Post by: Stoker on September 20, 2020, 11:02:40 pm
That seems sort of odd, as I've been getting notices that things are being delivered ahead of estimated schedule by the USPS, and they have been!
Title: Ebay steering people away from USPS ?
Post by: St Paul Steam on September 20, 2020, 09:21:49 pm

I was getting ready to print off a address label for a parcel on eBay that I had sold & while in the process , this warning popped up, never seen anything like this before.

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