Fed-Ex Shipment Arrives Empty

That's a shame. Hopefully it was insured, but surely paints a bad picture for FedEx. Have you contacted them? Did they offer any help at all?

 

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I do not believe the USPS would be considered a third party in this example. One is directly using the service, which by definition comes before a third party.

 

I'm not sure myself, since tracking numbers can be created beforehand. Unless the barcode printed in PayPal isn't the tracking number but some sort of PayPal metadata with item and tracking info.

 

As I said multiple times; I have seen this with my own eyes, TWICE.

 

The OP doesn't mention an Ebay/PayPal label.

When I sold on Ebay I never used them and if the USPS can get the contents of a package by scanning the label I won't ever consider that option. It ain't any of their business.

To be honest, that's just bad...don't help a good postal worker go bad...

 

Just curious. Was it FDX ground or FDX overnight?

 

I'm guessing hallucinations. I can't find anything on the web to confirm this. Unlike other urban legends, this one doesn't even appear on Snopes.


There might be some that believe you, but without tangible proof, I won't be one of them.

 

A bar code is nothing more than a number printed in barcode font, and that number can be linked to just about anything inside a database.

If the label was printed from eBay/PayPal, it is entirely conceivable that the USPS could link that tracking number to an auction. Even if the tracking number was "created beforehand".

The whole "created beforehand" thing is puzzling to me. Why would that make any difference? That's like saying a health insurance company can't use your social security number to track your activity because your SSN was "created beforehand".

I don't know if it's in the user agreement(s), and I'm too lazy to go and read all their legaleze right now, but auction information isn't the sort of information that they have to notify you that they are sharing. That is limited to personally identifiable information, financial information, education records, and medial records. In the eyes of the law, your name and address are more sensitive than what you purchased in an auction, and I'm fairly certain eBay/PayPal are sharing your name and address with the USPS when you print a shipping label.

If this is true, and I have no reason to disbelieve OldGoldGuy, it would certainly explain how a package that was sent to me containing three old quarter eagles was pilfered under very similar circumstances a while back.

 

Hey wait. Aren't ALL FedEx Shipments at least $25??

As for the original post, you can bet that if a FedEx package is labeled for delivery to a "Coin Shop" or "Coin Dealer" or some entity with the name "coin" in it, that it'll be a target somewhere along the way.

Was it Atlentic Coin Galleries INC or perhaps Rare Coin INC?

 

Ignorance is bliss.

 

Next time I will take a picture for the internet disbeliever I will cross paths with in 6 months. Try this for your need of evidence, JUST BRING ONE OF THE SHIPPING LABELS INTO THE POST OFFICE DUDE. It would be that easy. Crazy, right?

 

I have never seen such a thread. Never. The USPS does not care what you ship as long as it conforms to US Postal Regulations and they never ask what it is you are shipping beyond "Is it liquid, fragile, perishable or hazardous". Itemized contents are simply NOT required for shipping with any of the major shipping outlets.

Scanning of "bar codes" are for tracking purposes only.

 

I can't stop laughing. I'll check with my local post office before I go any further because she'll let me see what pops up when she scans the bar code.

 

I have spent a few minutes searching for information on this, but haven't been able to find any. That doesn't mean it isn't out there, just that it's hard to search for this combination of terms and find anything relevant. Most of the results just point to USPS or ebay.

Indeed. "Tracking".

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Such information might be quite useful when people file claims on insured packages. If this is indeed happening, I would be willing to bet this is why.

 

http://www.numismaticcrimes.org/?q=node/4

 

I don't know why some people are having problems finding this, but here is another thread, on this very forum, this year, where a member reported the same dilemma; the post office being able to see an ebay listing from a tracking number. I am trying to link it, but it doesn't look right, the thread it titled "My first USPS insurance claim for lost coin as the seller" and starts on page 2, and here is the link if it works:
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my...aim-for-lost-coin-as-the-seller.245259/page-3

 

Well, that proves it, then.

 

I see nothing in there which proves anything other than he said/she said.

I will ask my postal clerk.