[ForSale-Swap] eBay and PayPal

[Peter Markavage]

The USPS tracking leaves a lot to be desired. It's scanned once when it
enters a US Post Office to start its journey and is only scanned again
when it is delivered. The fact that the package will also go through
regional postal distribution centers, generally twice (one at the
shippers end and one at the receivers end), but sometimes more, the
package is never scanned at these locations (i.e. it arrived here at xxx
and left here at xxx). Their tracking mechanism is about as useful as
putting curtains on a postage stamp.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:46:18 -0400 Radioman390 at cs.com writes:
> 
> > I don't think he said fake but a tracking # that didn't show as 
> being
> >shipped. That means that the label was prepared, probably on the 
> internet.
> >That gets it into the UPS tracking system. Some time after that the 
> package
> >either never made it to the drop off point or was picked up, or was 
> not
> >properly scanned at UPS and is now lost in the system.
> >
> 
> The Post Office (USPS) seems to have a problem which I have suffered 
> from several times. The seller logs it into the system from home, 
> but then something goes wrong when the package actually arrives at 
> the PO. Maybe it needs to be scanned, but whatever this intermediate 
> step is, if it's not done, the PO will only update its online 
> tracking when the item is delivered. I've noticed this repeatedly; 
> the seller was not lying.
> 
> One possible reason: the seller drops it off at the PO, or throws it 
> into a mailbox and the civil servant doesn't scan it. So much for 
> technology.