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• glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Unless something changed in the past 3-5 years, that is not true. I used to sell a lot on Etsy and eBay and both created a tracking number as soon as you generated the label. If you checked it right away, the USPS site would say they hadn’t processed the package at the post office yet.

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If it’s not shipped there’s nothing to track.

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    • BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      lol I can tell you’ve never worked in fulfillment. Whether an order has been shipped is something you need to track.

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      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yes. Of an order has been shipped it will be tracked.

        Am i missing a joke or something?

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• nsfwpls@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The tracking number is on the label. There’s a tracking number as soon as the label is created, before it’s ever printed or slapped on a box. Whether or not a customer is given the tracking number when the label is created is a different story.

  I’ve had plenty of tracking numbers that just take me to a page that says “label created - USPS/UPS/FedEx awaiting item” until the carrier receives it. Some won’t give me tracking until it’s been picked up by the carrier, because there’s no point tracking an item that hasn’t shipped, but the number still exists.

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• Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  yep thats when they should announce that it shipped. not when the order was entered. and it shouldnt take a $177Billion dollar consumer company 3 days to get a box out the door.

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Work in a warehouse, and then come back.

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    • Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      i have, was so fun! way better than a desk job, just doesnt pay.

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      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I don’t know what warehouse you worked in that was fun and didn’t pay well. No wonder you don’t understand how shipping works.

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