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Message:: [QUOTE="aubade21, post: 1658710, member: 44104"]Well, I suppose I'm just going by personal experience. When my labels are printed and I get them scanned (I always watch the postal worker scan the package), they have always shown up within 24 hours on the USPS tracking system. This is, albeit, from a fairly meager sampling of about 400 ebay transactions. Perhaps I've been lucky.But in my defense, as a seller, I follow up on the tracking numbers of the items that I sell. If I were to see that one is not updating after a couple of days, I start asking questions.  If other items I sent out that day had been delivered, I would darn sure be in contact with the PO and the seller to express my concern. To me, it makes sense to let the buyer know that I did, in fact, send the package and I’m doing everything I can to figure out what the problem is.So while I suppose I should not assume that the seller is at fault, I have had more than my share of  purchases that bear a postmark several days after the date the seller bought the postage online. So I ask myself, does the seller ship only once a week? Did they forget me?  I don’t know. But just like you don’t want to point the finger at the seller, I don’t think it’s fair to blame USPS, especially packages with tracking labels. [/QUOTE]