The idea of pre-imposition may appear in the field of electronic commerce.
The term preimposition is not part of the dictionary developed by the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ). However, it is frequently used in Argentina in the context of electronic purchases and the shipment of products by postal means .
Preimposition is called a state of shipment that a seller makes to the buyer after completing a commercial transaction over the Internet . The concept usually appears when the purchase is made through Mercado Libre and the package is sent through Correo Argentino .
What is preimposition
Many people are disconcerted when they notice that the product they purchased does not arrive at their home and, in the tracking that can be done online, it appears in pre-imposition. According to what is explained by Correo Argentino , preimposition is the name that Mercado Libre uses when the package has already been assigned a label , but has not yet been sent to the postal service .
In Mercado Libre , meanwhile, they detail that, if a product is pre-imposed, it already has its printed label, although it has not yet registered movements. This implies that the box in question was not shipped (that is, that the post office did not receive it).
Preimposition is the status of a package that was registered by an e-commerce platform, but has not yet registered movements.
When it appears
Preimposition, in short, is a state that can appear in the step-by-step history of a purchase made through electronic commerce or e-commerce . The notion indicates that the product purchased, for the moment, was not accepted in the mail.
It is important to keep in mind that sellers usually have a period of 24 hours to ship the products. If the buyer reviews the status of the operation before the expiration of said deadline, he will find the pre-imposition status.
Sales without the buyer's physical presence in a store have existed for decades. In fact, depending on how flexible we are when choosing the first market model of this type, we could go back to the beginning of the 20th century, when a florist company began using the telegraph to receive orders from different towns in the United States.
Another more recent example is catalog shopping, which was also all the rage in the United States and continues to exist today in several countries around the world. The premise is always the same: the customer cannot see and touch the product, but must comply with the information provided by the seller, such as a description accompanied by photographs. And once you make the decision to purchase it, the waiting process begins, which is the concept of this article, pre-imposition, among other shipping states that usually generate anxiety and, in many cases, complaints about seemingly unnecessary delays.
The meaning of preimposition
When we buy a product through an e-commerce store we feel a kind of “power” that was not common in the era of the telephone and television. We are in control of the mouse and keyboard, or the buttons on the touch screen, and we have the sensation of orchestrating each step of our transaction , as if we were the organizers: "I want this and that, I want it sent to me." to this postal address, using the fastest service, I pay with PayPal", etc. The store is there to serve us. But the reality that follows is not always so satisfactory.
As soon as we notice that the shipment of our purchase does not change its status, we despair, because we want to receive it as soon as possible. Anxiety often leads us to forget the conditions and we make unfair complaints, like a small child who kicks because he does not want to wait so many seconds between one spoonful and another of his puree. Reading words like preimposition , which don't seem to make sense in this context, makes matters worse.