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Quote from: Breyer600 on January 18, 2017, 10:31:27 AMThey make it really hard to mess up an electronic label - as long as you put in the correct weight you'll only get the options that pertain to that size package and the type of shipping you choose. If the weight were wrong (or envelope vs. package selected) it should have been marked as insufficient postage when it came back. I suppose there's always a possibility that there was some sort of glitch with the bar code which I would guess is why they suggested crossing it out if it should happen again, but really, common sense should have alerted someone that a package with USPS printed international label is not going somewhere in the US.True- except with the flat vs nonflat option- I don't think they make that very clear honestly. You could easily select "envelope" not realizing the thickness is limited to 3/4" since it doesn't say unless you dig into the rules a bit...
They make it really hard to mess up an electronic label - as long as you put in the correct weight you'll only get the options that pertain to that size package and the type of shipping you choose. If the weight were wrong (or envelope vs. package selected) it should have been marked as insufficient postage when it came back. I suppose there's always a possibility that there was some sort of glitch with the bar code which I would guess is why they suggested crossing it out if it should happen again, but really, common sense should have alerted someone that a package with USPS printed international label is not going somewhere in the US.
In case everyone wants to see this great shipping circle my package keeps taking (judging by the Jan. 18 in Newark, it's on its way back to me again....):
Quote from: Galactica on January 18, 2017, 11:15:37 AMQuote from: Breyer600 on January 18, 2017, 10:31:27 AMThey make it really hard to mess up an electronic label - as long as you put in the correct weight you'll only get the options that pertain to that size package and the type of shipping you choose. If the weight were wrong (or envelope vs. package selected) it should have been marked as insufficient postage when it came back. I suppose there's always a possibility that there was some sort of glitch with the bar code which I would guess is why they suggested crossing it out if it should happen again, but really, common sense should have alerted someone that a package with USPS printed international label is not going somewhere in the US.True- except with the flat vs nonflat option- I don't think they make that very clear honestly. You could easily select "envelope" not realizing the thickness is limited to 3/4" since it doesn't say unless you dig into the rules a bit...It's probably different printing through ebay, but I go through USPS Click N Ship for my international packages. They don't even have an option for printing postage for envelopes - it's automatically assumed to be a package. Quote from: bluerose9978 on January 18, 2017, 11:24:10 AMIn case everyone wants to see this great shipping circle my package keeps taking (judging by the Jan. 18 in Newark, it's on its way back to me again....): You've got a lot more tracking than I did. My package went to the sorting center in Nashville and turned around and showed delivered right back to me. It never updated again after the first time it came back.
I just hope it does come back to me since it showed it was back in my town yesterday morning but it somehow didn't make its way back to me. I want to be able to try and doctor the label to make sure the TO and FROM are clearly marked and cross out the barcode. My other thought had been to cancel the label and print a new one (but I didn't know if I was able to do that after putting it through the postal system already without paying again).I just checked the tracking again and it's back in Columbus. Oh, boy. I just hope it doesn't get "lost."
From what I can find on that, it means someone finally noticed the barcode isn't being scanned properly and it will have to be processed manually.
That'a great news! I also just got word that my package that kept being returned was picked up by my buyer today.
UPDATE: Here are the newest updates for my package. Looks like it's cleared customs and is on the way to my buyer, thankfully! Thanks for everyone's help in this! It looks to have been a faulty barcode all along. I really don't know how it could have been avoided in the first place but now I know what happened and I'll keep tracking the package until it reaches its destination.