Lawrence,
Just ran some numbers in eBay site:
Ebay participants are responsible for roughly 227,500 shipped packages per week or 11,830,000 packages per year.
Assumptions--
Ebay's published numbers are truthful
25% of all listed items actually sell (WAG)
All sold items are shipped.
Give them a 50% growth rate in listings next year (probably conservative) and you are talking about 18 million packages.
Who cares what is in them.
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