ebays policy next year

[dylan11235813]

I might create my own postal business that does nothing but issue tracking numbers for letters for $0.01 each......Who's with me...

[dylan11235813]

Any company that provides one or more of the following services can apply to register as a Private Postal Operator (PPO) under the Ombudsman Act:

-acceptance of mail items, packages or parcels for delivery as above

-the security of that mail, package or parcel

-the allocation and transport of that mail, package or parcel

-the retention of that mail, package or parcel for collection by the addressee, or the delivery to the specified address or to another address.

[digital*ghost]

In the absence of eBay using common sense and respect for their sellers when devising these kinds of policies, Australia Post - or any other company for that matter - would win my love and loyalty forever if they would simply provide online proof of lodgement for any and all articles. Tracking / further scanning not necessary, just give me something to prove I posted it, and on what date. 🙂 

[joethenuts]

sorry can you explain what i get for a whole cent.

[saarzi]

DG on another post I saw you wrote something about wishing Auspost just gave confirmation of lodgement for each item.

I see a business opportunity there! imagine printing millions of lodgement slips, and getting a contract to supply those to all Aus post offices.

They sit beside the tills and all the person sending needs to do is put the recipeitns name / postcode and the Aus post person would check it matches the letter, then date stamp the slip (with the official Auspost stamp) for those who handed the letter over the counter. No need for a till receipt.

It would also get more people into Auspost shops, therefore increase sales for them in general.

You'll be rich!

[collect247]

OP said you will get a tracking number for 1c

[the4masters2013]

Sign me up!! I'll help you out with all the items you will receive and create a new business. 

[joethenuts]

to spend that amount of money which they dont make anymore lol . what will he do from start to finish and what would i have to do .

 i would like to how he is going to track my parcel for only 1 cent, also does the op do tracking old girlfriends 

[digital*ghost]

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@saarzi wrote:

DG on another post I saw you wrote something about wishing Auspost just gave confirmation of lodgement for each item.

I see a business opportunity there! imagine printing millions of lodgement slips, and getting a contract to supply those to all Aus post offices.

They sit beside the tills and all the person sending needs to do is put the recipeitns name / postcode and the Aus post person would check it matches the letter, then date stamp the slip (with the official Auspost stamp) for those who handed the letter over the counter. No need for a till receipt.

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If AP were interested, they could even facilitate it through C&S. You could just generate and print lodgement barcodes, which could then (in my ideal world)  be bulk lodged through a system/machine where a package can't be retreived once the barcode is scanned and accepted. If they were just to prove lodgement, then there'd be no need to do anything else with their systems, posties would recognise them as not needing to be scanned on delivery etc so shouldn't increase actual AP processing and delivery times (I'm still prepared to take responsibility for delivery, as I always have done), and eBay couldn't whack me when their promises to buyers aren't met by people who never made those promises in the first place. 

[jfmgray]

Sign me up.

I have spoken to eBay today about the new system and its potential impact on sellers who send items via large letters which are not tracked.  There seems some acceptance of an unintended consequence of the defect changes which were introduced "to ensure sellers were not held accountable for issues outside their control".  They are still devising how it will be opertationalised so feel free to pass on your suggestions.  One option is for eBay to accept a lodgement receipt from the APO as proof of "on-tme" lodgement for items without tracking - very painful for the APO but my local post office will be willing to issue lodgement confirmation for each of my items if this will keep me in business (and keep me buying products from them).