Let's see here:
- Enjoy your item/you've won e-mail message from eBay (useless on immediate payment items because you must pay with Paypal and will automatically receive a Paypal receipt anyway
-Paypal payment receipt e-mail
-confirmation of order from eBay (useless in just about every case I can think of)
-item shipment notification from eBay (can be helpful if seller is the type who doesn't communicate but useless in cases of Paypal shipping use)
-Paypal shipping e-mail with some actual useful information for the buyer (this is the only one about shipping that should be sent, but there should still be an option for it not be sent to buyer)
-Canada Post label creation e-mail (why does the seller need this message)
-Canada Post e-mail that the item has been shipped (again, why does the seller need to know that the item was shipped)
-Canada Post e-mail that an item is waiting for pickup at a post office (buyer doesn't really need this message because buyer has already received up to 5 e-mail message with the tracking number in it; they can check the status for themselves, and if they don't let the seller contact the buyer. Even then, buyer would receive a notice slip in the mail box anyway and also receive a reminder postcard a few days later in the mail to pick it up).
-Canada Post e-mail saying that the item was delivered (gee, the buyer really needs to know that after they already have the package. Worse yet, why tell the seller it was delivered. We have phone/tablet based applications that do that for us.
All those above e-mail messages are automated, mostly being of the useless and annoying variety. Meanwhile, the seller hasn't even had the chance to properly communicate anything with the buyer. But guess what? We can't properly communicate with our buyers because eBay has already spammed them with all those messages. All of those automated e-mail messages would be bad enough for a buyer who buys a 1 or 2 items. But think of someone who has just purchased 10 things. Does that buyer really need 50 almost completely pointless e-mail messages from eBay, Paypal, and Canada Post? Also think of it from the seller's point of few: do we need all those useless Canada Post e-mail messages as well? I can only imagine how a seller would feel if they just sold 20 items and uses Paypal shipping for each one.
Even with the Canada Post shipping notifications, I consider it completely junk mail. Canada Post has turned it into one big advertisement with banner ads. Any useful information contained within it is so buried and surrounded by so much legal speak, that it takes more time that it's worth for any buyer or seller to read them.
