Re: RE: Re: Ebay Orders.

On 5/22/2024 3:39 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:

On Wed May 22 11:33:18 2024 AMuzi  wrote:

On 5/22/2024 11:26 AM, Tom Kunich wrote:

It is really odd how long it takes to get orders from Ebay venders. And Ebay has been slowly making selling through Ebay so difficult that only shops of one sort or another are selling there. Even older framesets are beginning to feel this pressure as well.
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Ebay was originally the start of Elon Musk's career showing his aptitude for invention on a public media. But he rapidly grew tired of that and moved on. The purchasers of the site, have been slowing feeling that they have not been getting their money's worth and in the process have been actually shinking their income to the point that they are actually reducing their profits.
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I bought a 10 speed chain from a shop in Illinois I believe and it simply disappeared. Tracking by USPS has become almost useless to the point of saying "Arrived at intermediary" and "Left intermediary". So over a week past the due date no further tracking occurred and the ordered chain was nowhere to be seen. What has the vender responded? "I will have to ask USPS". Why didn't he do that when the tracking stopped 9 days ago? Or didn't he care?

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ebay has indeed changed and not for the better.
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That said, USPS service has tumbled downhill from an already
   not exceptional level. I have a current package en route
from Wisconsin to Florida which shows as 'in process' at
Nashua New Hampshire for over a week.

   I am particularly bothered by tracking messages that say "Arrived at intermediate station" and "Left intermediate station". What in the hell does that mean?

Continuing our lengthy discussion of logistics systems, your package is initially dropped at a Post Office or in a postal drop box.  The local delivery vehicle moves it to a local sort/aggregation station. There it gets initial sort (local, regional, other) and is dropped in the appropriate bin.
The local bins move to a different part of that station for second sort and then go out to each local Post Office in CRT sort order.
https://www.savethepostoffice.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Athens-GA-SDC-with-spokes-768x544.jpg
Regional bins go to a regional sort center, in my case Oak Brook WI (south suburban Milwaukee, 95 miles).  There, mail with zip codes starting with a 50- and not over 53- sort into bins for each post office in CRT sort order and go right back out.
https://savethepostoffice.com/wp-content/uploads/mail%20consolidation%20map.jpg
The rest arrive in Oak Creek and get sorted, binned and sent on to the appropriate similar regional centers.  Incoming mail at each regional center goes out to local sort stations and then on to the individual Post Offices. (or to the military & diplomatic mail systems for APO/FPO).
Given the general staffing at USPS and the Byzantine labor/union rules, some significant number of people are not available for work on any given day so mail can and does stack up on a regular basis.  Once we reach Italian levels of inefficiency we'll probably do what the Italians did in the 1960s~1980s after each frequent strike- burn the mail. So far our system has issues but still almost works.
Hope that's helpful.
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