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Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.

4 thoughts on “USPS Transition to Ground Advantage Runs into Minor Technical Issues”

  1. This sounds like a handy excuse for USPS employees to make more packages “stuck at a distribution center” aka Employee Theft.

  3. I’ve switched to UPS more & more, as 1st class now has expectations of taking 10-15 business days and I don’t see that getting any better. Part of this problem is pure logistics. How many transfer points, even within one state, are packages & envelopes going through? (Sometimes I think they are going in circles.) The focus has been on cost cutting without the understanding of how to move mail efficiently. Plus, the system has become over-burdened by online shopping. And special rates being given to large companies (ie Amazon and Chinese direct sales,) that don’t make enough profit to cover costs for the PO. While I appreciate “free shipping,” the cost is being made up somewhere. No such thing as “free.”

  4. Ina,

    Can you reference instructions on what eBay sellers are supposed to do to implement this? Do we edit our shipping policies and find a new USPS service? Create new shipping policies? What have prob only 10 shipping policies, but they apply to many thousands of items. We received nothing from eBay on how to do any of this.

    Thanks

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