CristysBoutique…

There are all kinds of glitches with valid tracking rate systems these days…

Amazon’s computer does not communicate well with a post office computer…

If you’re buying postage at the post office, it’s always good to wait till the next day to put it in the tracking numbers… Usually as soon as they’ve been scanned at the regional sorting facility…

They actually are in the USPS system once postage has been purchased at the counter, however Amazon does not communicate well with that computer system…

This one away for a while, now it’s back with a vengeance…

And you’re right they would not have access to those tracking numbers, unless they were imported into the system, by yourself, making sure you remove all of the spaces…

There are two other threads available on the subject out there…

Just another Amazon moved to drive you crazy, or intimidate you into using Amazon Kool-Aid postage…

Which generally is not all that practical dependent on volume, and other venues you may be shipping on, or online postage buying Services, which do not integrate with Amazon…

Amazon pings the postal computer, unless you are using scan sheets, or they are scanned in by the post office, they will not be worth anything number wise…

Confirming shipment is always better to be done at the time you know it shows up in an available system, available to Amazon, assuming their software is working correctly…

We know that Amazon only hires the most competent, top-flight, programmers, who never seem to make mistakes???

One day last week, noticed there was no VALID TRACKING RATE or ON-TIME DELIVERY metric–both reflecting N/A.

Braced for bad news afterwards- because when carriers(we use USPS exclusively) and AMAZON don’t sync, always bad for sellers.

Our ON-TIME metric did slip a bit-but we’ve been upgrading shipping on
many orders for 4, nearly 5 months(unbelievable the pandemic been raging so long) when we realized MEDIA MAIL was taking, in some cases, 3-4 weeks!!

Without the shipping upgrade- forced to raise prices which surprisingly didn’t effect sales much, if at all-we’d be outta business!

Known glitch with VTR which has not been fixed.
I lost Premium shipping and sales may be affected.
This glitch is now seeming to occur about every six months and last longer.
The tracking report was garbage with extraneous wild characters as part of the tracking number.
Hopefully resets in a month then it will be “fixed” for a while.

The thing that really sucks is Amazon is withholding a bunch of money in a “reserve account” that they are not depositing into my bank account, because a whole bunch of packages are showing as not yet delivered due to the tracking number glitch. I feel like it’s not fair that I should not be getting paid due to their software error.

Do you suppose the glitch could be regional ( ie along the San Andreas Fault Line ? ) When bookwormapril did her survery , she didn’t ask for our location …
10.24 % here and now falling by .01 's % each day

I am sad to say that you can count me in on the VTR train to hell. How frustrating to find that I can have 100% in everything else, my packages arrive earlier than expected, and I have been diligent about entering my tracking numbers immediately only to find Amazon doesn’t see them and has the audacity to tell me to “come up with a plan” to correct a problem that doesn’t exist.
Also, it’s not geographic. I am on the East Coast, near a major hub. There is no rational reason for this ridiculous glitch.

I just got a notice that my valid tracking rate was below 95% and I have a 100% valid tracking USPS data on my health account.

All deliveries showed delivered - is this glitch still out there?

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