Direct action required by sellers.

[stampingpaws]

Looks like a time for some direct action by Sellers.

I suggest sellers continue with the excellent service of posting within 1 day of payment but change their delivery time to something much longer , say 7 days. This will increase the estimated delivery time and help avoid the absolutely unreasonable and ridiculous defect for INR.

Join up - do it now.

[harley_babes_hoard]

Most of us sellers already changed our handling times to 3 or 5 days. It was to change the estimated delivery date but it won't stop an item not received case being opened.

[arlottstreetstation]

I'm wondering what the effect will be when Aust Post start charging extra for the privilege of our Large Letters taking 3 days longer.

Will Ebay change their stupid Estimated Delivery Times??????

[harley_babes_hoard]

I'm guessing not Hamsy we will just have to increase the handling time even further LOL

[mbselections00]

---

@hamsy3 wrote:

I'm wondering what the effect will be when Aust Post start charging extra for the privilege of our Large Letters taking 3 days longer.

Will Ebay change their stupid Estimated Delivery Times??????

---

I'm also wondering what effect paying extra will actually have - because it is going to mean more sorting at the handling centres ???

(Which would presumably create more delays)

[dazzledayz]

I can see the whole thing turning into an absolute fiasco in the AP sorting centres.

What are they planning to do, deliver some on one day and leave a pile just sitting there to be delivered on another?

The snail mail service will probably get way out of hand as more and more builds up as a backlog in the system.

This is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard of but then what do you expect from a logistics business run by bankers!

(a minimum of 70% of AP's executive board are ex-NAB mates of Fahour)

So eBay will, I suppose, give us yet another option for postage?

For letters that would now be 3:

1. Express

2. Priority

3. Regular

They can't get the delivery times right for one service let alone 3 lol.

And if we change our handling times upward that pretty much cancels out any benefit gained from the first 2 services.

[phorum_junkie*]

I can see the whole thing turning into an absolute fiasco in the AP sorting centres.

We have had a two tier service in the UK for a long, long time and there was no fiasco at the sorting centres as the stamps all contain a code which is machine read and mail directed to the correct place for the stamp value.

[5kazam]

That may work well in the U.K., but this is Australia we're talking about.

Postage times are slow enough now without anyone fiddling with them.  As said on another thread - purchased Monday, posted Tuesday, delivered Friday.  This was an across Melbourne metro delivery.  35 minutes drive.  4 days to get (I did say 3 on the other thread, and cats had a very similar situation)

@ stampingpaws - while I agree in principle with what you are saying about extending your postage time to 7 days (to avoid INR's), as a sometimes buyer, I have found that the estimated delivery time assessed by eBay has actually put me off from making a purchase from a particular seller.  I have no doubt that the seller(s) would post within 1 day, but from a buyer's perspective, if an estimated delivery time is 7-10 days (or more if you increase to 7 days postage time), then there is a double-think about whether you make that purchase.  I know I could contact the seller to find out what is his/her REAL handling time, but I wonder how many would actually bother to do so - or just do as I have previously done, and move on to another seller.

It could end up being a 'cutting off nose....' exercise to increase handling times.

[stampingpaws]

Now that buyers can claim INR at the end of estimated delivery period and with Auspost having huge troubles with sorting machines not to mention the almost weekly truck fire. I think it is very prudent to extend the estimated delivery time by increasing the handling time to as long as you think fit.

As a sometime buyer - I buy using these requirements in this order. Is it what I want, Can I afford it. Do I want BIN or go through the auction process. Is the postage cost acceptable (US35.00 for a single stamp is out of the ball park). Is the feed back not too bad. Only after all these are met would I consider how long it will take to get to me. Naturally, there are exceptions but these are rare.

 I sell Stamp Albums as PDF files on CD which I post to buyers as untracked large letters. So far I've had 2 defects for INR even though I replaced the item immediately by sending the PDF file attached to the PayPal email.