Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | TheBrickGuys  | | Posted: | Feb 12, 2024 22:30 | | Subject: | Re: Trans-brown (old trans-black) | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
| In Colors, mwright5 writes:
| | Seriously? Light trans-black would have been a more appropriate identifier as
there is a noticeable difference, however there is nothing brown about this color
that we are now calling trans-brown.
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Once you compare them side by side, like the one shown in the link posted by
1001bricks, you can see that old trans brown is very accurate.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Feb 9, 2024 11:03 | | Subject: | Re: Pick-A-BrickLego store price $17.99 | | Viewed: | 105 times | | Topic: | Retail | |
| In Retail, michaelhunt writes:
| | I went into my local Lego store today and noticed that Pick-A-Brick wall large
containers (boxes) are now $17.99. That's a two dollar increase from the
previous price of $15.99.
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Prices have gone up but the selection of parts have gone down (at least in our
area where 3 Lego stores are relatively close).
The good news is that the cardboard boxes they now use hold just as much as the
cups. We purchased one and filled it with 1x1 round plates then poured them into
a PAB cup and found that hold about the same amount maybe with the box holding
just a smidge more. The advantage with the box being rectangular instead of round
means that they are better for stacking square parts like plates or door frames.
And they are definitely more gooder then worser for the environmenta.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Feb 6, 2024 18:40 | | Subject: | Re: Howt to enable onsite payment? | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
| | | AI: “Hi, I’m Bricky, your BrickLink assistant! Would you like some help?”
User: “I want open a shop on BrickLink.”
AI: “Go to this address (link to halucinated address)”
User: “But it doesn’t work!”
AI: “Sorry, I meant this address (link to eBay)”
User: “But that’s eBay! I want BrickLink”
AI: “Oops, here’s the good one (link to BlinkRing, the club of blinkers aficionados)”
User: “Oh, I give up.”
AI: “Happy to have helped you! See you soon  ”
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Works for me!! Less competition!!!
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jan 29, 2024 21:43 | | Subject: | Re: New Parts | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
| In Buying, infinibrix writes:
| | In Buying, TheBrickGuys writes:
| | You are talking about not getting upset if you received a couple of pieces here
and there being stacked together in an order but it appears you didnt fully read
the entire post before responding. The original post does not complain about
a couple of pieces being staked, he stated the ALL the pieces were stacked.
There is a BIG difference between a couple of pieces verses all new pieces being
stacked.
Jim.
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Thanks for chiming in but you actually didn't read the full context of my
own post either as it was directed towards yorbrick not the OP. I already stated
that I didn't fully approve of stacked bricks and so I don't take issue
with whatever complaints the op has over how they received their parts. It's
more directed at Yorbricks overly pedantic "stacking for 5 seconds" comment
along with his many other past comments where he obsessively appears to enjoy
correcting people and re-iterating the rules back to them regardless of how necessary/minor
the subject matter!
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Ah, I see. Makes more sense.
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jan 29, 2024 10:44 | | Subject: | Re: New Parts | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
| You are talking about not getting upset if you received a couple of pieces here
and there being stacked together in an order but it appears you didnt fully read
the entire post before responding. The original post does not complain about
a couple of pieces being staked, he stated the ALL the pieces were stacked.
There is a BIG difference between a couple of pieces verses all new pieces being
stacked.
Jim.
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jan 27, 2024 11:17 | | Subject: | Re: *** The Gift Shop Now Open! *** (US Based) | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | New Stores | |
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1) Buyer leaves positive feedback, but doesn’t change the order status from “Shipped”
2) Buyer leaves positive feedback and changes the status to “Received” thinking
that’s it. Fairly common, actually.
3) Buyer contacts seller thanking them for the LEGO and offers praise of service
and/or product, without changing the status from “Shipped” or “Received”.
4) Buyer and seller are in communication over an order issue, which concludes
with the buyer expressing complete satisfaction with the transaction, again without
bothering to change the status.
In short, there's a good many LEGO fans that simply don’t know, don’t
care or don’t care to know about 'order status duties’ Many just wish to
buy LEGO and that’s it. Which is fine. The changing of order status by the seller
just helps a vendor to clean things up a bit, to stay organized.
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Good points. I think that after 30 days if a buyer has not changed the order
status to "Complete" then they probably will fall under the category
'dont care' and will not care if the seller changes the status to complete.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jan 27, 2024 10:58 | | Subject: | Re: Gummy Spam Poll ... Round 2 | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | General | |
| E) allow Zero Feedback Members Limited Forum Access that is visible to
Moderators Only and does not post publicly.
Then the moderators could release posts to the public once they see they are
not spam. It would be great if they could then have control to, in a sense, "Unlock"
their activity after a period of time where it becomes obvious to them that the
poster is not a spammer and then their posts would no longer need to be subject
to their approval.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2024 20:30 | | Subject: | Re: Merging piece varian is a BIG PROBLEM | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, yorbrick writes:
| | | | For one, I will be definitely buying from stores who sort their pieces, because
if I want to buy a variant of a piece I should receive that specific piece, once
I pay. I just hope Bricklink stores won't use this as an excuse to jack up
prices if they do list their pieces properly.
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How will you define the variants you want if they are no longer defined here?
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Exactly! Shoppers will be getting what they ordered and paid for, they just wont
be able to easily shop for different variants of a particular piece unless they
shop at stores that specify that they actually sorting out different variants
and selling them separately, thus, shoppers will still get what they pay for.
I say this only because shoppers stating that they want what they pay for is
just not an accurate analogy for this topic.
Jim.
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2024 13:44 | | Subject: | Re: Package returned | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Problem Order | |
| In Problem Order, takisdoc writes:
| | In Problem Order, TheBrickGuys writes:
| | In Problem Order, takisdoc writes:
| | Hi everyone! I placed an order tο a seller for some pieces (145€ worth) and he
sent it to me but due to a mistake made by DHL the package was returned to him
and was never delivered to me. Since I discovered this, I tried contacting him
many time offering to pay again for the postage to send it back ( I know he received,
I had a new tracking number from DHL) but no answer. Should I open a case with
PayPal? I’ve tried with 5 emails and even in his language but no reply!
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Just to be clear, did you send any messages thru BrickLink? The reason I ask
is because some sellers dont respond to emails but will respond to BrickLink
messages.
Jim
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A very justified question my friend, of course I did, it was my first method
of contact with the seller and I have the emails from BrickLink to prove it.
And then I sent emails and then message and email translated in his language
in case he only accepts these. I’m starting to feel bad because maybe he has
some serious problems in real life and I’m concerned about my hobby, but I need
to protect myself somehow nevertheless, right?
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I agree with everyone else to start a NSS followed by a PayPal claim. I was just
making sure you contacted him thru BrickLink and not just thru email before starting
the NSS.
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2024 11:21 | | Subject: | Re: Fun queries we sellers get... | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| | | Recently I was asked how many pounds of GUMMIES I wanted for trade of my store.
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Well your store is now closed so how many pounds did you settle for?
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2024 10:51 | | Subject: | Re: Package returned | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Problem Order | |
| In Problem Order, takisdoc writes:
| | Hi everyone! I placed an order tο a seller for some pieces (145€ worth) and he
sent it to me but due to a mistake made by DHL the package was returned to him
and was never delivered to me. Since I discovered this, I tried contacting him
many time offering to pay again for the postage to send it back ( I know he received,
I had a new tracking number from DHL) but no answer. Should I open a case with
PayPal? I’ve tried with 5 emails and even in his language but no reply!
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Just to be clear, did you send any messages thru BrickLink? The reason I ask
is because some sellers dont respond to emails but will respond to BrickLink
messages.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2024 11:31 | | Subject: | Re: Customer won’t reply to messages | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jan 17, 2024 14:23 | | Subject: | Re: Pleased with builds | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, zorbanj writes:
| | The looseness of the connections worsens over time and the petals become a bit
droopy.
In General, Stuart9 writes:
| | Haven’t built anything for some time but decided to build some flower based sets
for my wife.
She doesn’t like cut flowers, they die and she can’t stand the feeling of them
and the slime you sometimes get in the vase.
Not a fan of dried flowers or fake flowers, so the logical thing to me is Lego
based. 
Just built 10313, 10311 and 10280 in that order, love the result.
The only minor criticism is that some connections were a little loose, however
they worked
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You could use superglue.
Oh crap, now I will banned on the forums 
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jan 16, 2024 22:31 | | Subject: | Re: BrickStore database issue. | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
| In Related Software, sandman writes:
| | In Related Software, TheBrickGuys writes:
| | When I open BrickStore and try to update the database I get a error message that
states "Could not load new database: download and decompress failed: Connection
timed out". Anyone else getting this message?
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Everybody
https://github.com/rgriebl/brickstore/issues/813#issuecomment-1894324647
TL;DR: The version doesn't matter - the datacenter hosting the server with
the database has routing problems. Nothing I can do about it, but should hopefully
be up and running again shortly.
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Thanks for letting us know and as a side note: I just wanted to say THANK YOU
SO VERY MUCH!!! Thank you for keeping BrickStore up and running and constantly
making it better by adding more features. I really love and appreciate this software
(especially being able to update Remarks without needing to change anything else).
I cant imaging having a store on BrickLink without it.
To top it all off you offer it free of charge but for anyone interested, on BrickStore's
GitHub page there is a "Sponsor" link where we can help to keep BrickStore
going.
Again, thanks for keeping BrickStore going. Jim.
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jan 16, 2024 13:42 | | Subject: | Re: BrickStore database issue. | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
| Forgot to mention that I tried on 2 different computers. I downloaded the newest
version and still the database issue and I even tried installing an older version
of BrickStore to see if the older versions have the same problem and they do.
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jan 16, 2024 13:38 | | Subject: | BrickStore database issue. | | Viewed: | 155 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
| When I open BrickStore and try to update the database I get a error message that
states "Could not load new database: download and decompress failed: Connection
timed out". Anyone else getting this message?
Jim.
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jan 15, 2024 18:52 | | Subject: | Re: Sales | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, evjhaveri writes:
| | In Help, peregrinator writes:
| | In Help, evjhaveri writes:
| | How would I set up shipping costs for purchasing the label online? Would I use
request invoice? Do you know where the price chart for purchasing it online is?
Thank you
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Sign up for Pirate Ship
Look at the prices on the USPS web site for Ground Advantage commercial
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Thank you so much for your help! As we are both from New Jersey, would you be
able to send your shipping price table so I can gauge what prices are normal?
If you can, send it through my email. Thank you again
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You can go to our store and look at our store terms, this will give you a good
idea of what to charge. You can copy and paste anything you want from our store
terms, we wont mind.
Another thing you should try is putting all your parts on sale at around 10 to
15% off. I noticed that all your prices are at the 6 month sales average which
is a good place to start but for a small starting store I think putting your
parts up at 10 to 15% off may really help. I know the closer we get to putting
our parts at 15% off the 6 month sales average the more sales our store receives.
Jim.
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jan 9, 2024 22:37 | | Subject: | Re: Why are some allowed to stay in business? | | Viewed: | 87 times | | Topic: | General | |
| | | What would be your proposal for BL?
What action can I take if he is already on my stoplist? 
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Well of course close all stores except ours!
But seriously. I know where your coming from because it really comes down to
where do you draw the line? Everyone will have a differing opinion on where that
line should be and once the line is drawn what happens when you, me, or anyone
else crosses that threshold by just one negative? No one would would want their
store to be closed down because of just that one feedback that causes us to cross
that threshold.
But when a store has at least a few thousand feedbacks for selling and 10% or
more of them are negative / neutrals, maybe an actual percentage should not automatically
close down their store but I think it would be good for BrickLink to examine
stores with a high percentage of bad feedbacks and first maybe give them a warning
to clean up their act and if after a certain period of time they dont change
then BL should consider further consequences.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jan 9, 2024 21:40 | | Subject: | Why are some allowed to stay in business? | | Viewed: | 248 times | | Topic: | General | |
| We have had our share of neutral and negative feedbacks - at total of 26 - but
how are some stores still allowed to do business? There is a store in Germany
with around 8850 total feedbacks but out of his 7151 feedbacks for selling he
has 393 negative / neutrals. This past year alone he has 503 positive but 48
negative / neutrals - that is almost 10%!! That means 1 out of every 10 customers
are getting bad service and how many more are getting bad service but are afraid
to leave a negative feedback out of fear of getting retaliatory feedback.
Sometimes when I stumble across a store with a really bad reputation, like the
one above, I am surprised that they are still allowed to keep their selling status.
Just a rant.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jan 8, 2024 23:55 | | Subject: | Re: Keep yourself well apprised of value trends | | Viewed: | 74 times | | Topic: | Price Guide | |
| In Price Guide, popsicle writes:
| | I would back in the day, but stopped long ago. The example of this minifig's
value (especially as new) brings home the countless potential payoffs. By necessity,
we vendors budget what little time left to us beyond that of running the store.
Nonetheless, it was always deemed as time very well spent for me, staying appraised
of market values trends - Can be enjoyable too.
-popsicle
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Back in the day, when you would take the time, besides just perusing the catalog
and price guides, how did you go about keeping up some of the market value trends
(I would be interested in knowing)?
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jan 7, 2024 18:08 | | Subject: | Re: Have to pay VAT twice. What can be done? | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Taxes | |
| In Taxes, udenbricks writes:
| | In Taxes, Poncke writes:
| | I am in Ireland. Ordered from Indonesia, BL took the VAT on placing the order.
I told the seller to add a VAT invoice on the package to prevent double VAT.
Just got the email from customs, telling me to pay VAT otherwise the package
goes back to Indonesia.
I cannot check what the seller has done until I have the package. And as a private
individual I have no option to claim back VAT from Irish Revenue.
Any advice welcome, thanks.
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Maybe this is the solution:
You told the seller to add a VAT invoice.
Maybe it would have been better to ask for "The" VAT invoice.
So just ask your seller to download the Invoice on top of his order page. (see
example)
Let him send it electronicaly to you, you can send it to the customs.
I hope this helps.
Please let us know if this is good
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The Order Summery line also has an "IOSS No" link for orders that require
the IOSS number to be electronically transmitted when purchasing postage online.
Here is what the popup window shows when you click on the link:
The IOSS link shows the following info in a popup window when opened:
BrickLink IOSS number: XXXXXXXXXXX
You must share BrickLink’s IOSS number directly with your shipping carrier so
that the shipping carrier can submit this information electronically. This helps
to ensure that the buyer will not be charged VAT twice.
You MUST NOT use BrickLink’s IOSS number for any other purpose and NEVER write
this number on your packages.
Note: Always double-check this process with your local shipping carrier as the
process may vary. Some shipping carriers cannot accept or submit IOSS numbers
in post office locations, so you may only be able to do this online. If your
carrier cannot transmit our IOSS number electronically, the buyer could be charged
VAT a second time.
Visit the EU marketplace help page to learn more about the IOSS number.
As far as I know the IOSS link will always show up on orders that require the
IOSS number.
Jim.
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 16:23 | | Subject: | Re: Where do the bricks come from? | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In General, TheBrickGuys writes:
| | If you do the math based on some stores then you can easily determine that their
are some stores that are not getting the bulk of their bricks from sets. As an
example, there is a store that has over 38,000 1x2 black bricks, 38,000 1x2 trans
clear bricks, 20,000 2x2 black bricks, 18,000 2x4 red bricks, 15,000 2x4 black
bricks and their store only has a total of 308 lots of different parts. Their
are many stores that have way to may bricks to be getting them from sets. Heck,
there is a store that has 317,863 2x2 black bricks.
Some of these stores with really high brick counts have to be getting their bricks
from someplace else then just breaking down sets, especially when you look at
the rest of their inventories and see that they do not have large qty's of
all the other parts that they should have by breaking down such large number
of sets.
Jim
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That's just what they have for sale, not necessarily their entire inventory.
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1366780
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1420528
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And I would LOVE to be the owner of one of the examples you linked to!! I would
Never have to hunt for another Lego set on clearance again (even though I do
love a good Lego clearance hunt).
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 11:31 | | Subject: | Re: Where do the bricks come from? | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, helge writes:
| | In General, Hm79 writes:
| | Buying bricks directly from lego.com is quite expensive, the price of the sets
is not cheap at all, so it is not feasible to separate them... 😜hmmmm
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Instead of just stating that something is impossible; do the math.
And: those who part out sets at a sizable scale does not buy from lego.com...
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If you do the math based on some stores then you can easily determine that their
are some stores that are not getting the bulk of their bricks from sets. As an
example, there is a store that has over 38,000 1x2 black bricks, 38,000 1x2 trans
clear bricks, 20,000 2x2 black bricks, 18,000 2x4 red bricks, 15,000 2x4 black
bricks and their store only has a total of 308 lots of different parts. Their
are many stores that have way to may bricks to be getting them from sets. Heck,
there is a store that has 317,863 2x2 black bricks.
Some of these stores with really high brick counts have to be getting their bricks
from someplace else then just breaking down sets, especially when you look at
the rest of their inventories and see that they do not have large qty's of
all the other parts that they should have by breaking down such large number
of sets.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Dec 28, 2023 21:13 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Media | |
| In Media, Nubs_Select writes:
WOOOOOOW, it is working. They have already received and then reused / replaying
with over 543 tons of Lego!
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Dec 22, 2023 13:38 | | Subject: | Re: Shipstation override | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
| In Shipping, Ziegelmeister writes:
| | I'm not sure if this is a big deal or not. While trying to purchase standard
first class postage this week, it's been printing out ground advantage labels.
Allegedly they both take the same amount of time to deliver.
Not sure if any other US based stores are experiencing this and/or if it's
been an issue.
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First Class mail is still in use but only for letters but not packages (ground
advantage).
Jim.
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