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As I understood things, What day you ship also depends on what time of day the sale happened. If a sale came in at 6am Tuesday, then I thought you would have to ship it on Tuesday, since by the time the post office opens on Wednesday at 9am, you’ll be past the 24-hour mark. That’s why I never offered 1-day handling, because sometimes that means same-day handling.
This is also why, as Ryanne said, Thanksgiving day orders have to be shipped Friday, b/c the clock starts at midnight Thursday night.
But even if you are late with handling, you can avoid getting penalized for it if the post office is super-speedy in delivering it. Sometimes my 2-day priority mail packages make it in just 1 day…
Or did I get things wrong?
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No, you are not correct about there being a 24-hour clock. If you have a one-day handling time, the item must be shipped within the next business day. So, if you have a sale at 7am on Tuesday, the item must be scanned anytime on Wednesday for you to meet the one-day shipping. If an item sells at 1am on Friday, you technically have to have the item scanned on Monday to meet the 1-day requirement. Obviously, you can get it out sooner than that, but there is no requirement.
I have always offered 1-day shipping and rarely have a problem meeting the time frame. You have to meet your time frame 97% of the time for top-rated seller status.
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Ohhhhhhhhhh… So it’s not 1-day really, it’s NEXT day. And then I’m guessing that 2-day handling is NEXT day + 1 (all in business days). Thank you Ryanne & Okiepokie.
I just checked the ebay website, and confirmed that Ryanne’s answer to the original question is correct. If the order comes in on a weekend or holiday, 1-day handling means you have to ship the very next business day. So ship on friday for orders coming in on thanksgiving. And yes, everything is in PST.
So glad to finally have it all straight in my head. This may mean that I will go back to 2-day handling instead of 3-day.
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What I don’t get is when you have until 3 AM to ship. What Post Office is open at 3 AM to make that requirement. They almost all close around 5 PM, so you really lose 10 hours of shipping time.
Ryanne wrote, “sells on Monday 12:00a to 11:59p you can ship until Tuesday at Midnight”
and Okie wrote, “So, if you have a sale at 7am on Tuesday, the item must be scanned anytime on Wednesday for you to meet the one-day shipping. If an item sells at 1am on Friday”
So the way I see it, if it sells after the Post Office is closed Monday-Friday, you have to ship the next day before it closes to meet the 1-day requirement. I would have made the rule that if the sale comes after 5 PM, you have past the next day (so almost a two-day allowance) because it is less than a 1-day standard the way eBay requires it. It is like at the Post Office for Express Mail…if you get it to them after the cut-off (usually around 3PM depending on the destination) they give themselves an extra day to get it delivered. I still don’t get it, so I always ship the following day regardless of when the sale comes in.
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