I recently sent something to a US address and paid for a tracking number but it turned out that the other person is unable to track the package. Then after some research i found that after October 1 USPS made that international import Registered Mail will not be visible unless the local post office that the package was sent to is " upgraded" to support it in other words to pay usps for this extra. I have talked with my friends from the post office ( yes we have become friends since i go there every week sometimes even twice :D. When I enter from the door I always hear someone shouting " is there something for nikolai :D " ) and they have told me that only large packages will be traceable from now on. And we all know that 90% of the packages that are sent are considered "small"
USPS have provide a list of countries that have paid for the "upgrade" and I have noticed that even big names like Russia are not in the list :(
(here is a link click here (http://faq.usps.com/?articleId=1437076354655) to see the list )
They are saying something about that not every country has the ability to perform barcode scanning but i think this is not true. Everything has worked fine in the past so i am 100% sure that we ( the postal offices in my country) are able to "scan barcodes"
So what are your opinions on this?
What a bunch of stupid disgraceful lowballing. Hello world, this is almost 2016, 21th century, we will soon have floating cars. There is no way post offices can't afford something as stupid as barcode scanners
This must be political - Kiribati and Zambia are on there so I don't understand how Russia can't be. Probably tied to recent events.
I live in Bulgaria not in Russia but still. Now when i sent packages to US they will always be untraceable and there is nothing i can do about it :(
EDIT:
I had a second look at the list and i noticed that even UK is on on the list but Great Britain is.
Sorry Nikolai I thought you were in Russia.
Great Britain is a landmass (England, Scotland, Wales), while the UK is Great Britain + Northern Ireland. It used to be the whole of Ireland, so you'll sometimes hear 'the UK and Ireland'
USPS is sh*t anyway. (Sorry, American friends, but compared to other postal services, yours sucks.)
Registered parcels have to be signed for anyway. So you're saying that after the postal carrier scans the package and the customer signs for it, there's nothing that the shipper can see to confirm it from their end?
Quote from: Jedi QuestMaster on November 23, 2015, 08:17:31 pm
So you're saying that after the postal carrier scans the package and the customer signs for it, there's nothing that the shipper can see to confirm it from their end?
That's how I understood it.
Quote from: Jedi QuestMaster on November 23, 2015, 08:17:31 pm
Registered parcels have to be signed for anyway. So you're saying that after the postal carrier scans the package and the customer signs for it, there's nothing that the shipper can see to confirm it from their end?
You do but they will never upload that data anywhere. You got the package but only the local post office knows that you do there is no way the sender or someone else to see if the package is received or not.
Stop selling to America...I guess, problem solved. Of all the countries in the world, America is one of the few where sellers online so often just refuse to sell abroad, with excuses such as "I sent a package to Italy and had a problem, so now I won't send anywhere abroad". And with ass-hattery such as this, I see no point in taking a risk and a possible hit financially, and then there is the principle part as well.
I second that FCgamer, the blanket approach irritates me - especially when Pitney Bowes are so rubbish.
The other country I see this attitude from is France, nothing against our French members of course, just general bad service from French sellers on eBay.
I can confirm that packages sent from us to uk are not trackable. I have bought something from ebay and had it delivered to my uk address and royalmail's website shows no tracking information about it :-(
If it's USPS, you can track it, I'm sure I have... Sounds like the tracking number may be in error, or something else?
Quote from: L___E___T on November 24, 2015, 10:05:24 am
If it's USPS, you can track it, I'm sure I have... Sounds like the tracking number may be in error, or something else?
It is USPS . Have you received something from US after October 1 that was sent with tracking number?
Not after Oct 1st - I try not to have items shipped from the US if I can help it ,makes me nervous every time. i do have a shipment coming at some point later this year though, I'll use it as a test case.
Just a little update tracking does not work for parcels that are sent to uk : /
I mean it works only until it leaves us. Even after i have received the package the usps tracking page still says that it is in transit. I will try again and see if it will happen again.
folks, it seems that the list has been updated.
it says:
* indicates new countries added on March 24th, 2016
russia and bulgaria are presented as well :)
http://faq.usps.com/?articleId=1437076354655
Still no Taiwan. So funny how any package sent from the USPS to Taiwan is trackable yet no the other way around. Just a money grab on their part