"Paypal is still catching up to the second-last recent batch of countries added. "
The problem is not with PayPal.
It is with Pitney Bowes who administers the program under contract for eBay. PayPal is only the payment agent.
@pierrelebel wrote:"Paypal is still catching up to the second-last recent batch of countries added. "
The problem is not with PayPal.
It is with Pitney Bowes who administers the program under contract for eBay. PayPal is only the payment agent.
Well, whoever is responsible, I think they should not be announcing a service until there actually is such a service. 
"Is it fair to ask how to contact Pitney Bowes? "
Unfortunately you cannot.
PB is under contract from eBay, not sellers. As such sellers have no access to the eBay's supplier of service (PB).
Only eBay can tell PB what to do.
And if you contact eBay they will tell you the problem is with Canada Post or PayPal. If you contact PayPal they will tell you the problem is with eBay or Canada Post. NOBODY ever mentions Pitney Bowes. It is like a big secret around here!
Yet their contract is a matter of public record:
@mjwl2006 wrote:
Austrians have a different way of writing their street addresses and mine was partly German but no matter how much I moved parts and/or translated, it would not work.
You might be in for an exercise in frustration.
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To report back after completing the parcel...
Well, that was a chore. Let's see, over one hour later, and my husband is finally going out the door to the P.O. I decided to give Canada Post's new site a try, since I really prefer online labels for the convenience and the email follow-through.
However, since CP has completely redesigned their site since I last had to print a label from there, it took me nearly half an hour just to find the place where I could begin the label request process. I did manage to get through the maze -- and actually get a Tracked Packet label printed (hooray!). The small business discount was somewhere around 6% it appears.
Fortunately, I was trained as a linguist, and am quite fluent in German, so I had no problem with the address. In German the street number always follows the name of the street, and the word for "street" or "avenue" or "lane", etc. is always suffixed to the actual name of the street (in case you were wondering).
What I usually do is leave everything in German as on the buyer's Paypal address, except the country name, i.e. I don't write Österreich, but Austria. My rationale is that it will be Canada Post reading the label here in order to direct it to the right country, but the Austrian postal people will be better off seeing the local address in German once the partial actually reaches Austria.
(BTW, if you ever need any assistance with European addresses, feel free to message me.) However, the UK is another story entirely, especially if it's Welsh.
OK, now I can get on with the rest of my day...
" I don't write Österreich, but Austria. My rationale is that it will be Canada Post reading the label here in order to direct it to the right country,...:"
When mailing to Austria, I always write "Austria, Europe".
At least twice I had mail addressed to Austria forwarded to Australia by postal clerks reading too fast.
@rose-dee wrote:"...but the Austrian postal people will be better off seeing the local address in German once the partial actually reaches Austria."
A bit of momentary lack-of-sleep dyslexia there (actually it seems my brain was thinking one thing while my fingers typed another, closely phonetic word, even spelled the wrong word correctly -- very interesting ).
It should of course have read "parcel".
@pierrelebel wrote:
When mailing to Austria, I always write "Austria, Europe".
At least twice I had mail addressed to Austria forwarded to Australia by postal clerks reading too fast.
Oh yes, good point, another example of momentary lack-of-sleep dyslexia no doubt.
Oh well, too late now for my parcel, my husband just got back from dropping it off at the P.O. Hopefully the Canada Post people will see the German-language address and put 2 and 2 together. 
