[quote name='zewone']It used to let you know that the package was shipped at least.
Now, most of the time, it says I made up the number (or something to that extent) until it's at my door.[/QUOTE]
Ever since I've been selling on Ebay, which started in Jan 06, I've never gotten anything more than "The seller has electronically notified blah blah blah". Sometimes, like 50% of the time, it'll tell me when it's in the hub city of where it's going, but usually it'll change from the notification straight to the confirmation.
It's fairly easy to estimate how long a package will take by just typing in the zip codes on the calculate postage, so if I know a seller sent it Tues, I just throw in the zip codes to see how many days it would take so I know when it's coming.
But yea, in my case, I don't think anyone scans it again until it gets to the hub or to the person's door since it goes straight into the drop box, into the mail sorting place, into a plane, so I understand why it never gets scanned because they probably don't bother to scan the 400 pacakges in the drop box every night. I don't think it reaches an actual mail carrier until it gets to where it's going because I only use the drop box.
It's never bothered me because all I ever needed it to do was confirm delivery, and it's never failed me on 1,000 packages.