Since I, and no doubt many other sellers, have had very few or no sales in the last week or so, I can only assume that not only are Canadians aware that their parcels will be delayed but even U.S. buyers, of which I have quite a few, are non-existent, so they too must be wary.
I don't even know how you can get the message out to buyers that you are open for business and are using alternate delivery methods in order to ensure delivery before Christmas. I guess if you have a store, it's fairly simple to add a note at the top, along with your store description. But, without a store, you would need to do a bulk edit and add a sentence at the top of your listings. My experience with that has been nightmarish .... if you can even get a statement to appear in some compatible and noticeable fashion, removing it is almost impossible without going through your listings one by one. That's been my experience anyway.
But, the larger issue is, even if you have this statement on your listings, are buyers even going to see them. They're likely not even going to consider purchasing from eBay because they don't feel confident they'll get their items in time.
I can only hopethat people have Christmas money to spend in January when, hopefully, the backlog is taken care of.
