Buyer gave wrong postcode

[gudhealth4u]

Just realised my buyer gave me the wrong postcode although street address and suburb is correct but I have already posted. Would the parcel still arrive? 

[digital*ghost]

These days it's a little hard to guess... A couple of months ago I somehow completely neglected to put the postcode on a package, the street number and name, plus state, were 100% correct though and once upon a time, someone somewhere down the line at AP would have just picked it up and put the right postcode on it, but it was returned as undeliverable and I had to repackage and pay for postage again. 

My guess is that with a PC on the package, it will go to the sorting / distribution centre for that area, and if / when the discrepancy is picked up it will probably be redirected, so may cause some delays. If you have a tracking number for the package, you can follow it that way and give the buyer a heads-up if it looks like it's going to be returned to you. 

[gudhealth4u]

Thanks for the reply digital, hopefully the parcel does not get lost and I get an angry buyer after me.

[lane-ends]

Thats why I love ebay labels or click and send. The system wont allow this to happen. Wrong postcodes, and even incorrect suburbs occur all the time. Some locally named suburbs are not official postal suburbs. There are thousands of parcels that go thriough the system wiith errors like this.

Even if you dont want to use ebay labels click print label and it will do a draft submission and check address for you, you dont have to contiinue to create label. It wont allow you to proceed if buyer has not verified shipping address via checkout either, so you wont make the mistake of sending to a superceeded shipping address (which is also common)

Printed labels means you are not responsible for copying address wrong either, or having poor handwriting that causes a 0 to look like a 6 for example.

This has substantially reduced the amount of lost or delayed items.

If this check throws up an error, check to see address has suburb rather than city entered. cross check with AP site suburb and postcode matches. If there are multiple matches enter street address in google maps and see what it throws up.

95% of the time these will resolve issues without having to contact buyer, who often would have no idea why the address should show an error.

[bombbloke]

Are you sure the postcode's wrong? I've worked jobs which involve scheduling shipping orders, and in some cases I've had clients insist that their postcode be documented as such-and-such, no matter what any and all records I can find say it should be, on the basis that the "correct" code won't get to them.

It may be that the quickest way to find out if it'll get there is to ask the buyer.

[gudhealth4u]

I asked the buyer to confirm originally as his shipping address on PayPal was different to his eBay postal address. He confirmed to go with the PayPal address saying that he is sending it to a relative. But after I had posted it I realized that the postcode was the same although the suburbs are very apart , looks like he put his own postcode.

I guess the best thing I can do now is to point out his error and tell him that it would probably cause some delays. Hopefully Auspost redirects it.

[babylonfuture]

I really wish that Paypal AND eBay would do suburb + postcode verification :

(no particular order)

a) before customers checkout

and/or

b) whenever they add a new shipping address

and/or

c) setup new paypal account

and saves us from doing it.. eBay only picks up on it if you usb the ebay postage system... or if you import into click and send.