Drama of the highest order

Me too. I always give him $50 and some See's holiday chocolates.

 

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Wonderful story ending! Bummer about the in-between drama until it was found. Gorgeous coin, and Gold is always wonderful in-hand!

 

So glad you finally received! Bully for your neighbor.

We gift our primary carrier $25 each year, sent to his home so a sub doesn’t get it. He appreciates it and takes good care of us.

steve

 

I tip BOTH my weekday and weekend postal carriers in their Christmas card. Illegal to put mail in a box without a stamp but they have never complained yet. I have a huge mail box but my packages are usually delivered to my porch. Tips I give are $10 and $5 cash.
They also "forward" mail from a house I left in 2004 instead of the normal six months then you are out of luck.

 

Really glad you received your coin! I've maintained a Post Office box for all coin related deliveries (including purchases, catalogues and publications) for well over 20 years. While a P.O. Box doesn't entirely eliminate screw-ups, it certainly minimizes them. There's no packages left outdoors or with neighbors. P.O. Box also adds a layer of privacy when handing-out address for coin related matters. I strongly recommend a P.O. Box for all coin collectors!

 

Good idea. I have yet to do that but it makes sense. I have had brokerage statements and other financial documents delivered to my neighbors before, but no coins yet.

 

We receive a misdelivered letter 2 or 3 times a month, often for the neighbour or a house with the same number on a nearby street but occasionally for someone miles away or even in another state. I think the problem is that in most cities the mail is now sorted by machines without a human hand or eye and the machines are not infallible; sometimes they grip 2 letters together and send them both to the address on the top one. We get a lot of mail and our postmen/ladies just deliver the package of mail to the address given to them without giving it a glance.

Logically, a similar percentage of our mail is being delivered to another address. We religiously drop the stuff that comes to us into our neighbour's box or put them in our box to be redelivered. I just hope people who receive our mail do the same.

I use a PO Box for all coin stuff which should reduce the chance of error. However, I still have had two cases where a package never made it to me but disappeared en route.

 

Small post office in my adopted hometown, and they deliver only to boxes in each development, no house-to-house delivery. So far so good, have never had to track a "lost" package. In the office, each staff member seems conscientious and always ready to help. Considering that they handle thousands of letters and packages each week, they do a pretty good job. UPS doesn't even try to ring doorbell, just deliver it right outside our door and run!

 

Although your neighbors were a little slow in getting your package to you—they were honest Maybe there’s hope for humanity after all

 

Any time you get a mis-delivered letter, use that black Sharpie to cross out the barcode, whether it is in a window or along the bottom front of the envelope & put it back in your street-side mailbox (red flag up) or return it to your carrier next time they show up.
This will force the postal service to process it manually and hand sort it to the correct destination - the incorrect barcode (yours) will cause the mailpiece to be machine sorted back to your address regardless of printed address.
Barcode looks like this:

 

Glad you received your coin! I read a news article today about a USPS delivery worker that hoarded 17,000 pieces of mail, because he was too "overwhelmed" to deliver it all.

 

Was his name Newman?

 

During my time in the postal service, we had two such incidents - one veteran carrier allegedly dumped his holiday season mail order catalogs and other 'junk mail' down the storm sewer - a week later, it rained and snowed & the sewer backed up, flooding the street - police were called, the cause of the blockage discovered by city workers, 'lucky' mail carrier forced to retire with a reduced pension.
The other carrier, much younger, decided to bring home his undelivered junk mail and keep it 'hidden out of sight' - postal inspectors escorted him from the p.o. one morning - we never saw him again

 

We have a home in a city. Our home is in the city, house number 209, street..W***e. We are constantly getting mail for 209, street..W***ga. We get their mail and we get theirs. When a switch is made, the mail is hand delivered by the resident to the correct resident. I contacted the USPS manger about the constant mistakes and was told they have people that sort the mail, and not the fault of the carrier. My grandfather was a carrier from 193* to 197*. He told me it is the responsibility of the carrier to look at the mail before it is delivered. I ordered from the Mint, but it never got to me. It took 3 months to find out that the tracking number was sent to Fedex, but the package was never received. I tried to explain that to the Mint people and as said, it still took 3 months to get a refund.

 

Whoa, that was a REALLY long time ago :-D

 

I do the same, for similar reasons, although my box is at a UPS store. All of my coin related stuff either goes there or to my work.

 

...or a gift card loaded with $40-50 ...fabulous coin!…Spark

 

Bravo