eBay

femmefan1946 · ‎07-25-2017

One of the ongoing problems sellers have with non-Canadian sales, is that in a Dispute we are often required to supply return postage.

Within the US (and within Canada) this is not a problem. The seller can send a USPS/CPO label to the buyer and if it is not used, the complaining buyer loses the case.

Internationally....

Is it possible, using Shippo!, to print a USPS label for an American buyer from a Canadian address?

ypdc_dennis · ‎07-25-2017

@femmefan1946 wrote:
One of the ongoing problems sellers have with non-Canadian sales, is that in a Dispute we are often required to supply return postage.

Is it possible, using Shippo!, to print a USPS label for an American buyer from a Canadian address?

You'd be printing a label from the American buyer's address to your address.

In theory, it should be possible -- but in practice I expect a few undocumented Shippo hoops to jump through...

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femmefan1946 · ‎07-25-2017

And of course if I were the unhappy buyer, since Shippo! is also a US company, could my US seller send me a Canada Post label?

Do we have the name of the nice young man who was answering questions for a while there?

I deleted his emails. Sigh.

ypdc_dennis · ‎07-25-2017

@femmefan1946 wrote:
And of course if I were the unhappy buyer, since Shippo! is also a US company, could my US seller send me a Canada Post label?

In theory, yes. You should be able to buy Canada Post shipping directly (at non-eBay rates).

In practice, my attempt to buy Canada Post shipping through Shippo for a non-eBay sale failed. I was trying to use my regular Canada Post rate (not eBay's) and got an error message. I didn't dig any deeper but just went directly to Canada Post's EST to get the label.

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At this point in time the visible Shippo return label options seem to be if the seller sets it up in advance with a shipping service (that has the option), when they buy shipping. And those options generally DO NOT work cross border.

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femmefan1946 · ‎07-25-2017

This is one for the Weekly Chat, I guess.

pjcdn2005 · ‎07-26-2017

@femmefan1946 wrote:
And of course if I were the unhappy buyer, since Shippo! is also a US company, could my US seller send me a Canada Post label?

Do we have the name of the nice young man who was answering questions for a while there?

I deleted his emails. Sigh.

US sellers don't have a Shippo account as they still print labels through ebay or paypal. I suppose that it "might" be possible if they were able to set up an account. I am a feeling though that it isn't going to be that simple to print a label for another country's postal service.