Agree 100% with knewdoors and what you have to say here starting this threat. What a lot of sellers don't realize until it affects them directly is that time is of the essence now and delivery is the biggest part of it all. If you allow more than one day to process an order then you're seriously uncompetative because others in the game, let's say Amazon for starters, as well as your fellow eBay sellers striving to maintain a good rating, utterly depend on a delivery system which is also FAST! People want their food fast before it gets cold and you'all heard of Ubereats surely. Well, the same thing appies to all deliveries now. People expect it fast. You can no longer think orders can be bunched together and sent once or twice a week because those days are gone. If you want to have a good rating with eBay and all the bells and whistles involved in its algorithms, to set conditions so your product will come up in a search result, closer to the tope as possible even, then you MUST maintain a fast turn around and FAST delivery service which is 100% reliable.

My youngest son is completing a Business Finance and Marketing degree, I could go on and on about this, especially the inner workings of Facebook, let alone eBay.

The eBay seller rating system can affect sellers very badly due to no fault of their own and it should be dealt with by eBay because it currently stands as another dysfunction which drives sellers into closing.