USPS scanned as accepted

USPS sais Delivery Confirmation is just that, only a Delivery Confirmation. Customers could care a less about delivery confirmation. My customers told me they want to know it was accepted at the post office. So 6 days a week I take my packages with prepaid shipping from PayPal to the post office and have them scanned as accepted. All I had to do was show up each day, stand in line and smile. When I started taking them in I expected to be told that they would not scan them. But I was prepared to fix that if needed. By using the USPS Shipping Assistant you can print a label for each package that includes the delivery confirmation number. There is no cost to print this label. Then take the packages to the post office, buy the postage at the customer counter and get free delivery confirmation (priority mail), with a scan as accepted point on the web. You can also get delivery confirmation with the first class package rate, for 19 cents.

Delivery Confirmation, good for the seller.
Scanned as Accepted, good for the buyer.

Postal carriers do not have a rule that tells them to scan the packages as accepted, so they will not.

I do that all of the time thru click and ship, but when done printing the paid for labels I print the scan sheet. When I go to the PO I just drop all of my packages on the counter, hand them the scan sheet, they scan the one bar code and all packages are scanned as accepted. In and Out 2 minutes.

See my local PO whined about having to scan all of my packages, and in fact depending on who was working they might not get scanned......until I found out about the Scan Form, which has instructions on for the Postal People...basically they have to scan the form....no whining allowed.

PayPal shipping also offers the one sheet. But you have to print all the labels out at one time. I am currently set up to work one order at a time from invoice to ship label, then to the next invoice. Click and Ship may be able to work that way, but it does not print for first class package rate. And 80 percent of what I ship goes that rate.

The one scan sheet is good for those that can use it.

I have found a few instances of the single sheet scan not showing up on the USPS track and confirm web site. Though it shows up at the post office computers. I am now printing labels with the USPS shipping assistant and paying for postage at the counter. Then when handed the long receipt I count the number of delivery confirmation numbers. If that count does not match the number of packages I brought I have them find the missing package and rescan it. I have found to have happy customers when they can go on line and see there order has been accepted at the post office.