Actually the chance that even a tracked item is not scanned is very possible.
Reasons:
Scanner not working.
Scanner not transmitting
Whole system down.
But certainly better than using standard. Last December I had almost 20 2nd Class items and one 48 tracked that never showed as delivered. Only 1 actually didn't turn up (delivered to the wrong address). The buyer looked for it but was unsuccessful and in the end I refunded and 2 weeks later it was returned to me so no loss there, Phew!
Anyway it was the reason why I switched everything to 48 hours tracked.
I actually had a really weird one the other week. Sold some yarn, packed and measured (was small enough for small parcel) sent and over a week later the buyer got in touch saying she didn't have it yet. I checked online and it still sat in the mailing centre. Not even moved to the delivery office yet. Thankfully the next day they finally decided to delivery it. But I thought it was a joke. 12 days from pick up to finally deliver it.
So you see, Royal Mail is not perfect and to connect the payment system to an extremely flawed delivery tracking system is utterly ridiculous.
I have sent eBay several emails about it and all I get the same standard reply. Like I was an idiot or something. Same with the 75p per item, which has a massive impact on low priced items, which is what I sell. My knitting patterns shot up from £1.25 to £2.02. I had a look around and it seems I am still cheaper than everyone else. But how do I explain this increase to my regulars who maybe are not up to date with eBays shenanigans?
