[ForSale-Swap] eBay and PayPal

[Loren Moline WA7SKT]

Boy I sure messed up my spelling..what a night.

Loren


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Loren Moline WA7SKT" <lmoline at hotmail.com>
To: forsale-swap at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [ForSale-Swap] eBay and PayPal
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:11:11 -0700

Pete,

I was told by my local post office that prepaid shipping labels are not 
scanned by then when they come in. They only svan tracking if they sell the 
confirmation. That means if I print out a PayPal shipping label they don't 
scan it in as received. So you are right about their incomplete tracking 
syatem.

73

Loren  WA7SKT




----Original Message Follows----
From: Peter Markavage <manualman at juno.com>
To: forsale-swap at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [ForSale-Swap] eBay and PayPal
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:06:22 -0400

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.
______________________________________________________________
ForSale-Swap mailing list
  FAQ: http://mailman.qth.net/swap/swap.htm
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/forsale-swap
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm
Post: mailto:ForSale-Swap at mailman.qth.net

_________________________________________________________________
Can’t afford to quit your job? – Earn your AS, BS, or MS degree online in 1 
year. 
http://www.classesusa.com/clickcount.cfm?id=866145&goto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.classesusa.com%2Ffeaturedschools%2Fonlinedegreesmp%2Fform-dyn1.html%3Fsplovr%3D866143

______________________________________________________________
ForSale-Swap mailing list
FAQ: http://mailman.qth.net/swap/swap.htm
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/forsale-swap
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm
Post: mailto:ForSale-Swap at mailman.qth.net

_________________________________________________________________
Can’t afford to quit your job? – Earn your AS, BS, or MS degree online in 1 
year. 
http://www.classesusa.com/clickcount.cfm?id=866145&goto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.classesusa.com%2Ffeaturedschools%2Fonlinedegreesmp%2Fform-dyn1.html%3Fsplovr%3D866143