We too are having this problem. We we're 'switched on' with Royal Mails 2D delivery confirmation on the 1st November and up until the 6th we could get delivery confirmation on all parcels using the track and trace search.
On Tuesday we discovered that every parcel since the 7th is no longer being recognised when we try to search - we're getting the dreaded "Status:Sorry - we don't recognise that number".
I've spoken to my Royal mail account manager who says its not them so I opened up a linnworks support ticket and got this reply:
'2D barcode is generated by Linnworks and has to be submitted to Royal Mail to track the parcel. Once you file the manifest and postman collects the parcels, then you can track your items.'
Its quite a frustrating reply as if it was like I'd never done it before! I explained that it worked for 6 days....and then stopped. To me it seems like the manifest isn't uploading to royal mail correctly which in turn isn't submitting the tracking codes.
All the tracking numbers within linnworks match up to the numbers that are being printed on the label.
We print our labels on desktop and then file the manifest through .net (the only way to access the tracking codes on desktop!)
We were contacted by Royal Mail regarding some customers that had setup the integration but still were printing a mix between PPI labels and the labels generated by the integration. (you must make sure that all services are mapped to the Royal Mail services in the Royal Mail integration).
If your filing the manifest via Linnworks and your not getting any errors returned, Royal Mail will be receiving the manifest information for your account.
The reason why some customers are getting the errors sorry we do not recognize that number is that not all Royal Mail services support the 2D barcode delivery confirmation, We were told that all services had to generate 2D barcodes and we have developed the new labels to match their specifications and now they are saying its only available for certain services as its not fully rolled out yet.
So the reason why some barcodes do not appear on the track and trace system is due to Royal Mail and their roll out of 2D barcodes.
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The issue was that it WAS working...and then it wasn't! We are fully aware of what services are available on the 2D barcode delivery confirmation.
If something works and then doesn't, somewhere behind the scenes something has gone wrong.
This morning I have checked again some that weren't working from a few days ago, and low and behold they are working now. So the only conclusion I can come to is that someone has put something right....whether it be linnworks or Royal mail but as both were blaming each other its hard to know who!
I'm sorry if this is coming across a bit on the moany side, but as we have no control over the backend of the system, as your customer, we can only tell you what is happening our end and when we're being told everything is fine and its so clearly not, it can be very frustrating.
Andrew Russell
Since we have switched our Royal Mail integration from desktop to .net so that the tracking numbers are stored with the order details it is automatically uploading these number to eBay for all services (included the non tracked ones)
The problem is every time a customer checks the tracking number for standard services (ie Royal Mail 24 and Royal Mail 48) they are presented with the error message "Status: Sorry - we don't recognise that number"
I have spoken to Royal Mail about it and they said the delivery confirmation is not fully rolled out. So now after being pushed onto this new amazing 2D label service from Royal Mail we are now receiving multiple emails a day from customers asking why their "tracking number" isn't working
Is there any way to stop Linnworks from uploading these numbers to ebay to avoid this problem?
A few examples of the numbers...
21032428600000000922A
2103242860000000091F0
2103242860000000091E1
Just to clarify, when we use tracked services the tracking numbers (the ones ending in GB) are stored in Linnworks and uploaded to eBay is fine
Is anyone successfully getting delivery confirmation from Royal Mail from these new 2D labels?
Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks
Andy
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