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...

[sueken4812]

It would be simple for AusPost to sell the tracking labels that they use now for parcels only.  Sell them at $1.00 each for use on large letters.

[joethenuts]

hi jfmgray  i see you are worried about est times ,i have checked if i buy from you ,it tells me 3 days estimate , now i dont know  from other areas and buyers , but 3 days is plenty when you can drive it in under 20 minutes to my house.  it looks like they follow aus post times, i dont know where there depot is  but surely not that far away.

[joethenuts]

to sueken . I think there would be more to do when tracking a letter than just the sticker costs

[lane-ends]

Dont kid yourself mail doesn't just go in a straight line from door to door. It can often go way over the other side of a major city to a sorting depot and back again. I often scratch my head in wonder when you follow the tracking path..

This new system really should only be introduced if street boxes have integral scanners..(can't imagine that)

AP dont want people in post offices, thats the main point of all this prepaid parcel system. This policy is just pushing people backythe other way. Creating a postral label is not an acceptance scan, even if it does upload a tracking number. So its not just a letter rate issue.

I can see AP not being onboard with this policy

[lyndal1838]

I wonder what is wrong with the good old Postage Book that all small businesses used years ago.

Every item of mail was listed with full address and was taken to the PO along with the mail.  The PO checked each and every piece of mail and stamped the book with their official stamp.  There was your proof or posting and even the PO accepted it as proof that an item had been posted in the event of anything going astray.

And there was a lot less lost mail than there is today.

[joethenuts]

lane  your right  , banks were the same i can remember as soon as you walked in your bank there was someone there saying , we can fix that up outside at the atm.

[black*poppy]

I asked at the PO about stamping a book as you described  My PO is a proper PO not a /newsagency.  They refused to do this as a "misuse" of the stamp.  Apparently there are a plethora of federal laws around the stamp, and they do not want something stamped that could be miscontrued to be used in a way that was not intended and out of their control.

So, not withstanding the argument on another thread, my PO is very happy for me to take a photograph of the stamped letter before they take it away.  I haven't had to test if it works with an INR, I've heard it's successful with paypal but have not heard anything about fighting ebay cases.

[jfmgray]

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@joethenuts wrote:

hi jfmgray  i see you are worried about est times ,i have checked if i buy from you ,it tells me 3 days estimate , now i dont know  from other areas and buyers , but 3 days is plenty when you can drive it in under 20 minutes to my house.  it looks like they follow aus post times, i dont know where there depot is  but surely not that far away.

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Yes you are correct if items never were misdirected by Australia Post BUT there are frequently misdirected - I have three cases at the moment where items are over 3 days overdue and under the new system I will wear a defect for each

[harley_babes_hoard]

Black Poppy I have a lodgement book for all my large letters I have the buyers name, address and then the PO date stamp when I lodge them. My PO were more than happy to do it.

I did make it clear though that it was not in any way to take action against them for lost parcels, it was only to cover my butt for ebay/paypal.

[lyndal1838]

Well there we have two different interpretations of the use of a postage record book.

Back in the days when I used to fill one in they could be purchased at the post office, so definitely not a misuse of the PO stamp.