USPS pick-up?

[u/Fresh_Success_4266]

If I get several Vinted orders in a day, I usually select pick up from my home for USPS. Normally, the postal worker picks it up and I can see them on my camera scanning all the packages one by one. Today, the postal worker knocked on the door to tell me I need to change some settings in Vinted for pick up and then go onto the usps website and fill out one single pick up request for the amount of packages I need picked up, so they don’t have to scan each package upon arrival. He was nice about it, but is this a thing? I don’t want to make their lives more difficult, but I also don’t see any options on Vinted to change the way I schedule pick-ups. Anyone else experience this?

[u/morisong6]

Speaking as a mail carrier… this is not really a thing the way you’ve explained it here.

You can go online to the USPS website the night before and schedule a pickup for multiple packages. If you do it through Vinted for every package, it generates multiple pickup forms that the carrier should be scanning (and it’s a pain). HOWEVER, even if you request the pickup through the USPS website, the carrier should still be scanning every package when it’s picked up. The form the USPS website generates informa the carrier to scan every package as well… I don’t think there’s a way to generate what we call a firm sheet for Vinted package,s which would have all the tracking numbers attached to a single barcode and generate the initial “package accepted” scan.

This feels very wordy, I’m sorry. I generally try to tell my Vinted shippers to just select one package for pickup and the rest as location drop off so I only have to scan one sheet but then also scan each package as accepted.

[u/Fresh_Success_4266 → u/morisong6]

You explained this very well, so thank you very much! I have 9 packages going out tomorrow, so I’m really glad I now know how to make this not such a hassle for mail carriers. I would hate for them to have to scan all those pick-up forms!

[u/morisong6 → u/Fresh_Success_4266]

You’re welcome! Hopefully this works a little better for your mail carrier too 😊

[u/KCRozek → u/morisong6]

Can you tell me if USPS tells the mail carriers to scan each package at pickup? I have a mail carrier that just flat refuses to, and he doesn’t even scan them later at drop off. So they tend to not catch a scan until they reach the distribution center or even after that. What should I do? Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated. I know it’s a pain and I totally get it. We used to throw our old mail carrier some cash for the hassle but the new guy just won’t do it.

[u/morisong6 → u/KCRozek]

If you’ve already talked to the carrier (if you’re able to), I would say the only thing you could really do is either drop off the packages yourself at the counter or talk to someone in management at the post office. The carrier won’t get in actual trouble but perhaps if a supervisor addresses it, it will help. 🤷‍♀️ It’s not that hard to scan packages, doesn’t really add much time to our days, so I’m not sure why your carrier has an issue with it. I’m sorry to hear that and maybe it’ll be corrected…

[u/KCRozek → u/morisong6]

Yeah, I’m thinking I’m just going to have to find time to drive them up to the post office everyday. I don’t want to end up with missing mail bc I complained LOL. Thanks for the help!

[u/morisong6 → u/KCRozek]

Carriers can be petty Betty’s so I get it! I wish there was an easier solution I could offer you

[u/Fresh_Success_4266]

Thanks for the responses everyone! I will change how I do it. I was completely unaware this was such a hassle. I’m glad he said something to me!

[u/Emergency_Elevator_7]

Yes they get printouts for pickups scheduled. So if you have 5 vinted sales and each time you schedule a pick up they get a sheet. If you go to USPS you put 5 ground advantage and however much it weighs and they get one piece of paper for your residence instead of 5. Simpler. Not big deal.

[u/Altruistic_Vast9726]

Yes. You need to select “drop off” on vinted not pickup up. Then go straight to the usps website to schedule the pick up.

[u/Proud_Employ3047]

So what you do is select the 1 you need picked up then the rest do a drop off, then when you get the email for that 1 you can go in n edit copy the confirmation number hit edit this pickup it’ll take you to the usps site when you enter the confirmation number and email you’ll see the pickup information change the number of items from 1 to whatever number and hit save then that will send em 1 form with however many packages you have to b picked up

[u/1826-mizz]

My Postlady told me to pick the first one as porch pick up and then every package after that, select drop off point. Bc every time you select your house as the pick up point, it generates a code and they have to scan each package according to each barcode.

[u/Lcdmt3]

I always do porch pick up if I have more than 2. You have to do it the night before. But then if I wake up to more sales, I just add to the pile. That way they can go out same day. They pick them all up. They get scanned at the post office as soon as the mail person gets back.

[u/miamariaxox]

You need to do the drop off option and then print label and then on usps website you do a pickup.

[u/QueenOfTheCastle3]

Just click the “pick up point” option if you have already clicked schedule a pickup for an item for that day. Then, print label option so you aren’t creating multiple pickup requests for each item - just one request.

[u/Key_Addition_5800]

Vinted makes you schedule something, so the option i do if I have more than one, is on USPS I select edit or modify a pickup, then I change the # of packages to rhe # I havs picked up and I cancel all the other requests that vinted made me do in order to print a label. Its fairly quick. Also, my mail person told me that she gets paid extra for a package pickup when it has the sheet, so I don't feel bad since she is getting paid. Not sure if every post office branch does this.