Fast priority mail, but only if there are no holidays in between!
In my work account (not this one, which is just for a hobby), I only ship with priority mail since the amounts are small, or by registered mail when the orders are multiple. Normally everything goes well, in fact I receive a lot of praise for the quick delivery times. In fact, priority mail at least in my case works well.
Unfortunately, just one holiday in between and everything changes. Scans made by the post office, often the previous sorting office instead of the mail carrier, so the packages show as delivered while they are still at the post office, which is common with every-other-day deliveries that skip the delivery shift, delaying them by at least 4 days... etc. This leads to unpleasant misunderstandings that I always try to resolve promptly anyway.
Today I received 3 disputes for item not received. Never happened before.
Is it possible for a holiday to completely disrupt the postal service?. Then eBay gets involved and, not knowing the problems of the Italian Postal Service, indicates flash delivery times...
Sorry for the rant.
marioelegio
·2 years agoAdd a couple of days to the packing time.
hi
mario
quepos_it
OP2 years agoYou're right marioelegio, in this account I can do that too because it's just a hobby, even though with DAC7 I'll have to gradually eliminate it (while also recording amateur sales in the receipts register, given the reduced taxation for flat-rate taxpayers). But on my other account I sell electronic components and an indication of speed is quite essential for repairers. The problem is that since I ship every day early in the morning (often even for orders that come in at 2 a.m.), buyers usually compliment me on the speed. Then all of a sudden comes the black week, fortunately rare, and everything falls apart.
But I will definitely follow your advice during the summer and Christmas periods, when the biggest problems occur.
Best regards
vonbalden
·2 years agoPriority mail (like all its other oddball cousins with the number) is meant for sending letters or a bit of paper documentation of a few pages in an acceptable amount of time. I don't think a seller
who isn't a seller of low-value used stamps or vintage cards would normally use it.
Besides being expensive, (you have to cough up 5.50 euros with a smile for anything over 100 grams in weight), attempts to promote it up to a maximum of two kg. even for small items have had disappointing results.
I remember using it once for funeral condolences. And when I saw the acquaintances,
they kindly told me that they had never received any reply from yours truly. I was astonished.
Here on the site I use only standard registered mail and poste delivery express with decent success.
Best regards.
kilowarefilatelico
·2 years agoYes Vonbalden, for amounts from about ten euros upwards I use registered mail or parcel, but for a little envelope of 10 transistors for 1.90 euros with a very thin thickness, the 2.90 priority mail can also be fine because if shipping costs are too high it's hard to sell low-value products, and in most cases I've always gotten on well. The rant was aimed at the post office, which can't cope with an occasional holiday (in addition to the Christmas and summer period) by respecting delivery times, maybe just stretching them a little because of the holiday, and not marking a delivery as completed by scanning it from the office and not by the postman, which then in towns with alternate delivery the envelope is delivered three days later. I think it's a trick to make the percentage of delivery times respected look good even when they're not
Best regards
actar80
·2 years agoI think it’s pretty clear that it’s just a sneaky trick to make the percentage of on-time deliveries look good even when they aren’t.
Anyway, Poste IT cares about claiming high quality targets even when they aren’t, let’s not forget that by now they’re a S.P.A. and they have to hit targets like other companies.
As for the much-hyped quality, they don’t give a f...ck about it anymore, and let’s not even get started on all the nonsense they tell uninformed customers or elderly people, to whom they propose going paperless with pension booklets and vouchers, which would then have to be managed through online profiles that many don’t know how to use/manage.
For years they’ve been hassling people with car insurance that, if you read the fine print, does nothing but push Linear and Genertel insurance (if I remember correctly), so online insurance that assumes tech-savvy users capable of handling accident claims remotely, but they sell the product and then if the customer doesn’t really get it, they’re left in the lurch.
Now they’ve started pestering people with electricity and gas without even asking whether the contract is in the name of disabled people, people over 75, or economically disadvantaged families who are entitled to remain in the protected market.
Here are the new Poste IT, the result of the disastrous privatization that was looked on favorably by a blind political class. They sold off and privatized the main assets that built the country after the war: just think of the former SIP, the former FS, Enel and, of course, Poste.
But politicians have their privileges anyway; they don’t live through the difficulties of ordinary people.
vonbalden
·2 years agoItaly paid a very high price for democracy. Because here democracy was immediately run
like a giant echo chamber that hammers everyone, exalting its wonders and condemning anyone
who is against a supposed freedom. We only realized very late, without being able to do anything, that democracy was totally subject to unscrupulous buddies who ran it for their own political and power interests. As long as we’re here, democracy is safe! That’s what they used to say. And if democracy was safe, the other 50 million Italians were a little less so, held by the collar like by a noose. Let’s gloss over the 'sell-offs' of national industries because elsewhere an entire political and government class would have had to appear before a supreme court. But not the ones we know. Who, after a dressing-down and a few notices of investigation, seem to sweep everything under the rug while waiting for better times. No, no. I was referring to other courts...maybe a little less flexible. The kind where, when you’re seated in the courtroom, you have to loosen your shirt collar because you have trouble breathing. And certainly not at the top of the so-called democratic countries. But the imperative is to keep going, forget quickly, and recognize all the smiling faces that Italians absolutely love. But who knows why? 🤔 Maybe because, as an old Rita Pavone song used to say, there’s no one like us. Absolutely no one, for better or worse.
kilowarefilatelico
·2 years agoactar80, I agree with everything. And I’d add that the privatization of public services is really a guillotine