I bought an item Sunday so the earliest it could be shipped was Tuesday, which was yesterday. The seller emailed me Sunday night saying he would ship Tuesday and send me a tracking number. I received another email this evening (Wed) with the UPS tracking number saying the item was shipped yesterday (Tues) and would arrive Friday. When I couldn't bring up the tracking info I guessed the item wasn't mailed until today. I checked a bit ago and sure enough, it wasn't mailed until today. It's not a biggie, so don't lie about it.
What possesses a seller to lie about the shipping date? With either USPS delivery confirmation or UPS tracking, the shipping date is right there in the tracking. It just really irritates me that the seller must think I'm stupid.

Thanks, I feel a little better.

It could be that they left it at the Post Office on Tuesday and it did not get processed until Wednesday.

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When I ship something as a seller, It doesnt even show up as accepted at my local town post office at ALL!!! When I take it to a post office by my work it shows up as accepted right away. I would agree that the post office may have processed it the next day themselves..and realize that their backed up after a long weekend of mail backed up. My mail came to my house 2.5 hours later then normal due to the extra mail after an extra day off due to Labor day. Therefore I would not be fast to pick on the seller.

I agree with the others. I live in a smaller city and sometimes my packages show as processed the day after I deliver them to the PO. So your seller may be telling the truth.

The item was shipped UPS. I was able to bring up the tracking info just now and it wasn't shipped until Wednesday and the seller told me Tuesday. The seller did lie. The tracking info also indicates when the label was created and that was done Wed morning.
When a USPS item has delivery confirmation you can bring up all details by clicking on additional details. This will show when the shipping info is received and it will sometimes show when the item was accepted, processed and left the mailing facility. I've even had a few pkgs scanned along the route before arriving at the delivering facility.

Its not like they said it was shipped a week earlier than it was. Maybe they had 2 bunches that went out 1 on Tuesday and 1 on Wednesday. I wouldn't automatically think they lied to me on purpose.

They may have left it at a UPS store.

Not entered into system until driver picks it up, possiblty the next day.

They don't think you are stupid and you shouldn't automatically think they are lying?

Like everyone has posted before it was probably dropped off when she stated, but it just wasn't scanned until the next day. You have no way of knowing, so I would give them the benefit of the doubt. It's only one day too, not like she lied about sending it DAYS ago.

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I just wanted to chime in on this...albeit a couple of days late. I took an ebay package to drop off (at USPS, not UPS) on the day I said I would mail it. The line at the post office was literally to the door and they were not taking any more customers, as it was 5pm and they close at 5:30pm. All I could do was shrug my shoulders and get the package mailed the next morning.

I agree with the other posters...its not like it was multiple days later or anything. I think we have all been in the position of "Life Happens" and had things like this happen to us as both sellers and buyers. Seriously, its not worth sweating and there are a lot bigger issues on Ebay to worry about!

I ship my UPS packages from a bookstore. The UPS man comes at 1:30 PM... usually. There have been times I've taken my package in at 1:00, only to find out he came early. They go ahead and charge me and take the package, but if they're busy with other things they don't process the label until the next morning.

The package was posted (or showed that it was) one day later than intended possibly due to no fault on the sellers part and this is considered lying?! And the seller thinks you must be stupid?

A defensive attitude is not healthy...as you've noticed.

where I live I often get the package before it even shows up on the tracking that it has shipped

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