Quote from: Tessellated on July 01, 2013, 09:58 pmQuote from: le_blua on June 02, 2013, 06:18 pmMarking as in transit way before it really is is probably the only annoying experience in my book.This may be annoying but there is a very good reason for it. If you mark it in transit right when you ship then cops can order from you and figure out which days you ship. This could allow them to inspect that day's mail more thouroughly or even worse watch the mailboxes on that day for the drop.I generally mark in transit with a 2 day random offset from the time I actually ship. It may be a bit annoying to the buyer but security of our freedom must be the first priority.I use a few other tricks which I will not go into here.I had never thought of it that way. Thanks for your insight. Though it was not a huge deal, I now view the instant "in transit" on some orders differently. It just seems like it would be better to send it and mark it in transit later, rather than the other way around, or at least a message letting the buy know the status. I don't need to know exactly when it was shipping, just a rough estimate of when to expect it and to know that it is in the mail.