As it happens I sold my CGC graded X-men #1 and Avengers #1 over the weekend...NOTE: the market is down on lower grade items...after almost a week and 50+ watchers and half a dozen bidders...even CGC'd the books only pulled in 3/4 of guide...

Anyhow...it used to be that you could ship your merch through Paypal and print a shipping label that included a free "delivery confirmation"...you hand it to your local carrier or hoof it down to the local PO and they'd scan it into the system so your buyer had a confirmed shipping date...

Now, because so many people were shipping multiple packages that way and were holding up local paying customers (and getting a discounted service through Paypal) the clerks will no longer scan the packages. the only system record you will have is when the box arrives at it's destination and is scanned for delivery (doesn't always happen)...so the buyer will never know when it was actually shipped...nor will you have any idea of it's whereabouts along the way unless someone takes the effort to scan it...which I can tell you from experience is unlikely...

The breakdown here is the fact that unlike the UPS...the post office does not automatically scan packages on their way out...unless they've sold you the service themselves and then it's part of the process...

I doubt Paypal will do anything about the glitch, because they can't automatically enter it into the system when you buy the label, because they have no way of confirming that you actually shipped it...

So in a nutshell, it amounts to getting a useless delivery confirmation for free...

And the post office wonders why they loose business...

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