I am also concerned about this. I had this happen to me twice on ebay this month (never before in my years of selling), and would like to know if this is a new scam. Seems like it’s affecting Amazon sellers as well. Unfortunate.

I’m getting a couple of these as well. The one on Ebay is actually for an order that I placed. It came from NY to my local NC Distribution Center and got re-routed back to NY. The company that I ordered it from thinks I refused it.

An item I shipped “FIRST CLASS” a week ago on Amazon is still showing received in the distribution center every day since August 8th. I guess it will be In Transit FOREVER! Thank God the customer was understanding as I was able to send a replacement.

Yes, these issues are becoming more common for us too with USPS. I had USPS state the item was picked up by the buyer, when, it was not. ( Regular customer that orders all the time ) Anyway, call the local post office and they can give you a lot of information and in many cases find the package within a day or two. In the instance above, they had the package there at the local post office because there was a new carrier they were having trouble with and it was scanned wrong. I was able to let the customer know she could pick up the package or arrange another delivery.

Just go to USPS and put in the buyer’s zipcode and that should pull the closest post office. Call them and talk to the supervisor. You can also call the main 800 number and file a trace on the delivery…many times the local office calls back with delivery information. It helps combat some of the INRs.

Is it possible that NJ/PA and the North Have been hit with massive rain storms?

Many Towns have had flooding and could affect delivery, just a theory…

Same here all in July! That is why I started to pay the extra money in getting insurance just in case costing me more shipping out replacements

I just checked the tracking on 50 randomly chosen orders from July 5th to August 10th. I had two instances of ‘out for delivery’ as the last entry. One of those was entered on July 13th.

I had no ‘awaiting delivery’ entries. I hope someone can use this data.

EDIT: The previous comments were based on Amazon data. When I looked at the tracking info on USPS.con, both were ‘Awaiting delivery scan’.

Those two ‘awaiting delivery scan’ entries were on July 13th and August 14th. ( FWIW, one was BPM, one was MM )

Call USPS local office about the issue. I had that happen only once a couple months ago. Submitted a ticket on USPS website and called destination office about the delivery update without confirmation. Already got ready if the buyer would complain non-delivery, but no message came from the buyer for two months. If the buyer did contact, I would forward the USPS update to them. The package was delivered according to USPS destination office but just no confirmation updated online.

I had this happen once some time ago; I call USPS and gave them the tracking numbers and all was taken care of shortly. In my case, we had a different postman and he had scanned the items wrong.

I’ve had the same issue. Unfortunately, Amazon and the customer are not always understanding.

This happened to me a few months ago and the package has just disappeared into thin air. I thought maybe the agent deleted the scan info. I’ll be taking everything in myself from now on so I receive a receipt I can hang on to as proof of shipment.