Thanks to USPS Informed Delivery, people can check each day to see what’s scheduled to arrive in their mailbox. That lets them see if a mail carrier skips their house on any given day. But that’s not something the Postal Read more
During last week’s eBay for Business podcast, a seller asked why most of the time, packages sent via eBay International Standard Delivery went to eBay’s processing center before being forwarded to the customer, but sometimes eBay directed the seller to Read more
Both eBay and Etsy offered advice to sellers impacted by the shipping disruption that hit UK’s postal service midweek last week. According to the BBC, the incident was caused by a cyber attack known as ransomware, describing it as “malicious Read more
The US Postal Service sent the latest in a series of postcards to indoctrinate its workforce on the benefits of its Delivering for America 10-year plan. The USPS recently mailed the latest postcard (the fifth in the series) to Postal Read more
eBay has been quiet about a problem that is causing draft listings to disappear. On Tuesday, it created a ticket and posted it on a thread devoted to technical issues under investigation. But some sellers question why eBay hasn’t been Read more
Amazon sellers will be responsible for paying for overage costs on returns beginning Saturday, January 14th. According to the new policy, if a shipping carrier assesses a correction charge on a customer return, sellers must now pay it. The policy Read more
The USPS said it accepted 11.7 billion packages and mailpieces between Nov. 26-Dec. 30, 2022. It also reported a 2.5-day average delivery time for mail and packages across its network during that period. Last year, the USPS reported that between Read more
eBay once again turned to university students to help it solve real-world problems. This week, the company announced the winners of its 4th Annual Machine Learning Challenge. Last year, eBay tasked students with helping it improve the delivery estimates it Read more
eBay CEO Jamie Iannone said in a post on Wednesday that the IRS’s decision to delay the new, lower $600 tax-reporting threshold for a year was “welcome news,” saying it would translate into reduced tax overreporting and fewer unnecessary tax Read more
Amazon is making its ‘Buy with Prime’ payments offering available to all US sellers by January 31st, saying in an announcement this week that offering the service can boost conversion rates for merchants by an average of 25%. It derived Read more
