Options?
How long do you let them ""look for it"" before you put their $#!+ on blast?
Options?
How long do you let them ""look for it"" before you put their $#!+ on blast?
If USPS says delivered then that is all the info you have........putting someone on "blast" may not be appropriate action as there are many factors involved.........Possibly paying the extra $3 to get signature confirmation in the future may be a valid option
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Originally Posted by auminer
Hopefully it was sent priority mail or some other way that has insurance. If so, you can make a claim that it was lost and get your postage refunded and whatever the claimed value of the package was.
Just some anecdotal evidence, but I had it say "delivered" before and it not actually show up until 3-4 days later. So I'd say give it a little bit.
you can also make a claim, and they will investigate and get back to you. It has actually helped before.
https://www.usps.com/help/claims.htm
Once it's marked as delivered, the P.O. is done. That's what insurance is for.
Aaaaaaaaand this is why i dont ship anything threw the mail..... Beg my pard
I kinda hoped that I could trust a buyer with a very long positive track record on this forum. The USPS, I don't trust. Due to their lond and NEGATIVE record.Quote:
Originally Posted by greytruck
We'll give it a few more days... See if things work themselves out. What with the beerSARS and all, perhaps incoming packages are going to sit a few days before they are processed, the packing slip read, and the account updated.
Things usually work out so hopefully this will as well.......Things just in general seem to be moving slower than usual.........You can keep us updated hope it works out
One of the vendors involved has already proactively reached out after seeing this thread. I'm really not trying to rush things through to pay rent or something, I just have a healthy distrust of unfamiliar financial transactions! LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by mikeinreco
I'm sure this will turn out to be much ado about nothing. But I still greatly prefer cash on the barrelhead face-to-face, but it's really tough to find trustworthy ewaste or e-resale vendors even in a metro area the size of Dallas/Ft Worth!
What would you have done if they hadn't actually received it?
I really would like to debate this. I don't think you have a leg to stand on, even if the post office says they delivered. That's just a fake service they provide. Like I said, that's what insurance is for.
Not quite sure I follow........"Fake" service?.........I have watched the postman scan the item when they drop it off but once they deliver they are no longer responsible for the itemQuote:
Originally Posted by IamTheGreatest
If they actually haven't received it, I'd be pissed at the Post Office. I've seen weird USPS glitches happen though, so hopefully it shows up in a day or two, or they delivered it to someone next door who has it and will bring it over, or something like that
FWIW in all my years selling stuff on-line, thousands and thousands of transactions, have only had two packages go missing that I recall. A few marked as delivered that weren't all showed up either through the recipient finding it or the delivery person fixing an error. They get joked about but tbh the post office does a pretty fine job
In the terms of a "fake" service, around here, they don't scan and mark the package as "delivered" as they actually put in the person's hand... unless they need signature. Most of the time they bulk scan everything as they load it.
I worked for a company that got lots of packages via UPS and FEDEX everyday. Sometimes the drivers would scan a pile in the truck, then throw them all, and then mark the signature down, to save time. So what you see on the outside doesn't always match the inside.
P.S. Marking things fragile is a waste of time.
P.S.S. If you can't afford to gamble with losing something, because honestly, it is an investment, get the insurance.
Everything cycled out. I was just being a nervous nellie. :&
This beerSARS has everything backed up and jacked up.
Glad it worked out - I was nervous for ya!
I use the post office for almost everything nowadays. Used to use UPS a lot, but they suck bigtime anymore.
That said, I have been using the post office all of my life, and so far NOTHING has ever gone missing due to post office mistakes.
Even when I worked at the local post office in the 60s, I never remember anything going missing. Broken? Crushed? etc. LOTS of times MOSTLY because the shipper never packed the shipment properly.
If the package is not packed well enough that the contents won't survive a 6 foot vertical drop or won't survive me JUMPING on the package, the packages is NOT packed well enough for the contents to survive delivery. AND THAT GOES WITH ANY SHIPPER.
I once had a laptop backed over by a mail truck, so yeah, sometimes your luck is going to suck. But, good packing gets it there most times. When a lot of hard drives comes in, a little "game" we have at the office is to guess the pass-rate on boxes. A well-packed box will usually test out around 90% passage, more if the sender pre-tests. A poorly packaged one will never do well. I had a pallet I worked through that didn't get much packaging. That was a couple thousand dollars lost for them- at least. It makes me cry to see stuff like that happen. Pack your stuff so that it can survive an apocalypse, and it'll usually work out. If the Post Office screws up on delivery, I can usually take the tracking number to them and have the box located within a couple hours