Dashboard Showing "tracking not uploaded at all" for sale to an American? Is this new?

[upperwestave]

Hi, just checked my dashboard under USA region and it shows an item sold to an American buyer as "tracking not uploaded at all" with a nice big orange dot.  I sold a couple of things around this time and just gave the tracking number directly to the buyer in both cases, one to a Candidan and one to an American. But under 'Global region' there is no "tracking not uploaded" to the Canadian buyers' sale, or any other for that matter.

I cant ever remember seeing 'tracking not uploaded' for a regular sale before , unless its one of those times I forgot to put tracking in and  item not received case was currently open before being resolved.

Also I thought Canadians didn't have to upload tracking for every sale.

By the way, I have a US 'Ship from' address that I belive was currently selected when I made that sale. Could that be the reason, as in ebay treats it as  a sale from one American to another?

[reallynicestamps]

No one has to use tracking for any sale. Never.

Americans have very cheap tracking - as little as 25c purchased online- which is not true of the rest of the world.

One result is that eBay USA insists on tracking as a metric for the Top Rated Seller program.

On dotCA there are notices on the All Orders List that tracking should be included "Add Tracking Number" and "Mark As Shipped/Not Shipped", so we can inform eBay that we have shipped with or without a shipping label (I use stamps instead).

Tracking is a Seller Protection against unwarranted claims of Non-Delivery.

It would be more important to me as a seller that my buyer is not notified that I did not avail myself of that Seller Protection.