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tch_ca · ‎07-05-2017

Anyone notice the extensive delays on registered inbound shipping? 7 of 9 shipments from Europe have been over 30 days. Also no more CPC tracking for inbound. Anyone know anything? CPC claiums it's customs but I think they are full of it. Europeans don't even want to trace parcels to Canada until 120 days. They say CPC is not interfacing with anyone.

marnotom! · ‎07-05-2017

I've been led to understand that if you want to slow down the transit of an international package, the best way to do it is to register it.

I've also been led to understand that receiving postal systems of international registered mail are under no obligation to continue the laborious process of manually recording its whereabouts once it enters the destination country.

If your European sellers are concerned about your items getting lost in transit, they should be insuring them or sending them by parcel post or EMS, not registering them.

femmefan1946 · ‎07-05-2017

After a couple of centuries of Registered mail that was recorded at every stop, most postal systems have moved to faster barcoded services.

Registration has become obsolete and, because it is not electronically viewable, is not accepted by Paypal and eBay as proof of delivery.

If you need tracking (and as a Buyer you don't ) your Seller should use a tracked service like Canada Post's Expedited or Priority Post.https://www.canadapost.ca/cpotools/apps/far/business/findARate?execution=e1s1

But for eBay and Paypal, tracking is a Seller Protection.

If a seller is hit with an Item Not Delivered dispute, he can win it by showing that the Delivery is Confirmed by the shipper (Canada Post, UPS, USPS etc.)

If the buyer is not home when the carrier arrives with the package, a Notice will be left telling him where and when he can pick up the shipment.

Buyers can open an eBay Dispute for 30 days after the last estimated date of delivery.

If the seller cannot prove delivery (not shipping, delivery) the buyer will be refunded.

And again, a Registered package will not be accepted as showing delivery. Period.

If the 30 days have passed, Paypal allows an Item Not Received dispute to be opened for 180 days from date of payment.

If the seller cannot prove delivery (not shipping, delivery) the buyer will be refunded.

A couple of notes:

Many 'European' and 'Australian' sellers are dropshipping from Asia. Watch out for long estimated delivery periods.

While most people, buyers and sellers alike, are honest, there are scammers everywhere. No nation is free of them.

marnotom! · ‎07-06-2017

@femmefan1946 wrote:

Many 'European' and 'Australian' sellers are dropshipping from Asia. Watch out for long estimated delivery periods.
While most people, buyers and sellers alike, are honest, there are scammers everywhere. No nation is free of them.

Good point. "Registered mail" is a somewhat different animal in Asian-Pacific Postal Union countries where the term corresponds with a piece of mail that is electronically recorded and tracked, which could explain some of what tch_ca is describing.