Buying and Selling on eBay: Tips, Tricks, Problems & Questions

[the2ndhandman]

Trump-backed postmaster general plans to slow mail delivery

Critics of the changes say they don’t see how minimizing mail delivery efforts will lead to an increase in revenue.

fortune.com

Mail is goofy right now because the current administration is trying to make it so that their service is so awful that people will cheer the defunding/shutdown of the postal service.

If Trump is re-elected, the USPS will be a goner within a few years. I’m really curious how that would affect resellers

Yes but be realistic. It's not all on Trumps administration. The usps has been in a SIGNIFICANT deficit for well over 15 years. They are currently sitting at a 80 BILLION dollar yes BILLION dollar deficit. They are statistically the worst delivery system vs others. If they weren't a government entity they would have been out of bussiness a long time ago. They need to raise the price of shipping and stop giving deals to big companies like AMAZON who bury them deeper.

 

[Proleet]

Yes but be realistic. It's not all on Trumps administration. The usps has been in a SIGNIFICANT deficit for well over 15 years. They are currently sitting at a 80 BILLION dollar yes BILLION dollar deficit. They are statistically the worst delivery system vs others. If they weren't a government entity they would have been out of bussiness a long time ago. They need to raise the price of shipping and stop giving deals to big companies like AMAZON who bury them deeper.

you might want to read up on how they were screwed by congress and are forced to keep money at hand for benefits for their employees for the next 75!!! Years...what do you think that does to their budgets?

 

[the2ndhandman]

you might want to read up on how they were screwed by congress and are forced to keep money at hand for benefits for their employees for the next 75!!! Years...what do you think that does to their budgets?

Now now they haven't been making those payments. They have defaulted.They cant just keep kicking the can down the road. Forbes magazine says the same thing. Not on trump that money was due before he took office. In 2009 when they relaxed the payments they still defaulted. THEY ARE BROKE. Something has to give.

Post Office Pensions: Some Key Myths And Facts

Now in Myth-and-Fact format, an explainer on why pension funding requirements don't have anything to do with the USPS's current woes.

www.forbes.com

 

[Proleet]

Now now they haven't been making those payments. They have defaulted.They cant just keep kicking the can down the road. Forbes magazine says the same thing. Not on trump that money was due before he took office. In 2009 when they relaxed the payments they still defaulted. THEY ARE BROKE. Something has to give.

Post Office Pensions: Some Key Myths And Facts

Now in Myth-and-Fact format, an explainer on why pension funding requirements don't have anything to do with the USPS's current woes.

www.forbes.com

who said anything about Trump? Interesting read though and no doubt a good reorg is way overdue.

 

[div25sec9]

They need to charge more. I can buy a USPS label and pay a courier to take a package down across the border to drop at the post office than I can across my own city via CanadaPost!

 

[Reosymes]

Yes but be realistic. It's not all on Trumps administration. The usps has been in a SIGNIFICANT deficit for well over 15 years. They are currently sitting at a 80 BILLION dollar yes BILLION dollar deficit. They are statistically the worst delivery system vs others. If they weren't a government entity they would have been out of bussiness a long time ago. They need to raise the price of shipping and stop giving deals to big companies like AMAZON who bury them deeper.

I'm not sure evaluating government agencies using the profit metric makes sense. It's a service provided by the government using public money. Should the government be making a profit for providing us with clean water and air too? How about the interstate highway system? Oh, and my favorite, the national park system, the crown jewels of america?* Also running at a 'deficit.' Let's just ******* ditch them all.

USPS is also required by law to provide universal coverage. Love too see Fedex just dropping your rural area from its coverage because it's no longer profitable to service that last mile. I come from a country where the post office has been gutted and you need to use expensive private courier companies for every little mundane shipment. A lot of Americans really don't know how good they have it.

* Don't answer this. Just a rhetorical question. The last thing I want to see this morning is some libertarian going yes! YES! YES! YES!!!! to all four.

 

[Reosymes]

who said anything about Trump? Interesting read though and no doubt a good reorg is way overdue.

Maybe, but putting someone in charge of this reorg who has $75M in stocks of USPS's competitors is probably not going to be optimal.

 

[Tweets]

Maybe, but putting someone in charge of this reorg who has $75M in stocks of USPS's competitors is probably not going to be optimal.

Let's put Bernie in charge or it, then us poor folks will get it for free and only richie rich will have to pay!

 

[rwtc]

What do you gents think of purchasing something NWT, then it arrives without the tag?

 

[capnwes]

I would think, Hey, where's the tag?

 

[rwtc]

I would think, Hey, where's the tag?

That's fair.... is this something that one would usually raise a dispute with / contacting the seller about?

 

[capnwes]

That's fair.... is this something that one would usually raise a dispute with on ebay?

I guess it would depend on your intentions with the item, and the price. If it''s for flips, I might be a bit miffed. If it's for keeps and is otherwise new and I was going to pop the tag off anyway, I probably wouldn't worry about it.

 

[kbadgley84]

USPS has basically been forced to fail these last few months. The more pressure there is for states to expand mail in ballots due to coronavirus concerns the more this ************* so called administration has been putting USPS in the position to fail. Packages are arriving slow now due to massive staff cuts. I’m not the smartest person but when mail in ballots can be cast aside if they arrive late and someone is obviously creating a situation where Mail is being delivered late then hey quacks like a duck yea?
In other news, I’ve been making 2X the money listing on mercari and sending bulk delivers of women’s clothes to thredUP than i have Been the last 3 months on eBay with less than 1/4 the work. Thanks eBay, the more you **** the seller the more they will move elsewhere. There are many more options now than just 2-3 years ago

 

[drlivingston]

They need to charge more. I can buy a USPS label and pay a courier to take a package down across the border to drop at the post office than I can across my own city via CanadaPost!

Raise US First Class stamps to $1 and remove the Congressional franking privilege.

 

[drlivingston]

Well, here goes nothing...