I can't revise all these!

[#1]

What is someone else doing that has the same Etsy problem?  I have two stores.  On every listing that I had Ground Advantage as a shipping option, I have the message, "Update Required".     I have to go into every single one and AGAIN select Ground Advantage.   They took it out and left a blank.  Now I have to put them all back in.   What the?   What are you sellers doing if you have this problem.    I need to list.  I don't have time for this craziness.

[BirdieGirlsBackroom]

This is the original OP.    Almost ALL my listings  were done in the old format.  I just started using the new format about a week ago.  I was able for a long time to use "Ground Advantage" in the old format.  I started using it when they said they were doing away with First Class.   I'm saying the Etsy glitch erased the "Ground Advantage" and I was required to go in and revise it back to "Ground Advantage" again.  It took it out for no reason. 

[BirdieGirlsBackroom]

This is the OP again.   I have had two people message me, also, trying to be of help with this.   Nothing anyone suggests will work with the system I have going on.  I only have 96 listings in this store so I have gotten them revised pretty quickly.  The main store has 496 listings so I am just going to pick away at them.  I didn't cause this mess.  Etsy did.  So I hope they will be patient as I work at it.  Also, LastCentury, I DO claim both stores in my public listing.  Maybe you should look closer.

[TBQSC]

Just an FYI ...

Fixed Rate Profiles now has "Ground Advantage" service you can select to use in your listings.

Calculated Rate Profiles do NOT have GA (per se), but if you select FCM & Parcel Select Ground, they will both enact the GA rates.

As for the FCM acting as letter rate, that is wrong ... FCM still acts as package rate (calculated rates).

Etsy has not enacted calculated rates for FCM Letters/Flats.  If you want to use FCM for letters, you have to manually add the rates yourself to each listing and then select FCM Letter / Flat Rate when purchasing a shipping label.  

[JMOldeVintage]

With all the changes to the listing form, the possible need to assign &/or set shipping profiles, etc., why is it that shipping class options have received a half-baked update?

As @TBQSC  stated, if you use manual shipping costs Etsy shows Ground Advantage as a mail class. 

If you use Calculated Shipping the option to choose Ground Advantage is not there. Shops will still need to go into advanced settings to include Parcel Select. (Otherwise multi-item orders might end up showing Priority costs.) 

Possibly adding to the confusion is that for Calculated, Etsy describes First Class as - "An affordable way to send lightweight envelopes using USPS shipping labels or stamps."

When entering the shipping costs manually, Etsy shows First Class Mail, but I don't see the notation that first class technically applies to basically just letters or flats.

But if using calculated apparently Etsy still considers first class an option for "packages/boxes" that are 15.99 ounces or under.
Though technically true first class 'shipments'  - Etsy's flats & letter rate labels - agree with the usual USPS restrictions on size, weight, being machinable, etc.

My thought that the switch to show GA was a slow roll-out, but....  So, this may be a good reminder that when shops pose questions on shipping profiles, mail classes available, etc. unless they say what they use, those trying to help need to ask if they use Calculated shipping or if they manually enter costs.