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Re:Amazon bans incentivized reviews tied to free or discount... by Alupis on Monday October 03, 2016 @06:35PM (#12631936)
> Your phone number is on Amazon shipping label too

Probably for shipments shipped from an Amazon warehouse (sold by Amazon, or Fulfilled-by-Amazon/FBA).

For our own labels, we print our company phone number, and that's fairly common for many ecommerce companies (although certainly not all).

It protects the customer's privacy, and in the event there's an issue with delivery, it's best the carrier contact the shipper (us) anyway.

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Re:Amazon bans incentivized reviews tied to free or discount... by sokoloff on Monday October 03, 2016 @06:57PM (#12632052)
Whether your phone number appears on the shipping label is variable. Based on the 5 fulfilled-by-Amazon (sometimes sold-by-Amazon) packages in my hand, it appears on all the Amazon-as-trucker packages and neither of the USPS packages. I suspect the rules are even more complex than simply "what carrier", but it clearly varies.
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Re:Amazon bans incentivized reviews tied to free or discount... by losteverything on Monday October 03, 2016 @11:38PM (#12633165)
Look again closely at your Usps labels. May seem like random numbers but it's there
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Re:Amazon bans incentivized reviews tied to free or discount... by Alupis on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @12:54AM (#12633417)
If it's not on the label, it's in the system.

Some folks generate their own custom labels, and may omit things like that. The data is still sent to the carrier during the "End of Day" task (or equivalent) in whatever shipping software the shipper uses.

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Re:Amazon bans incentivized reviews tied to free or discount... by losteverything on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @08:40AM (#12635062)
Alright. I can only speak from what I see. Thanks.
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Re:Amazon bans incentivized reviews tied to free or discount... by sokoloff on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @01:48PM (#12637563)
It's really not there. (My phone number is in the 617 area code.)

http://static-s3.sokoloff.com/random/amazon/IMG_1880.jpg

On other labels it's after the "DF3..." ID.

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Re:Amazon bans incentivized reviews tied to free or discount... by Alupis on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @05:42PM (#12639748)
That's a custom label (ie. not stock from USPS), and is likely generated by the shipper's shipping software.

Apparently they chose to leave that field off the label, but it's still sent to USPS by the software.

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Re:Amazon bans incentivized reviews tied to free or discount... by sokoloff on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @08:58AM (#12643381)
The seller on that particular order was Amazon.com LLC; the box was an Amazon box, closed with Amazon branded tape and mailed USPS.
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