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<p>[QUOTE="Lueds, post: 7812215, member: 109500"]I got burnt once by just dropping into 'the box', as a result these days I take EVERY item I sell into the post office and get a receipt scan and load it on the system that day. That way, at the very minimum, it will show as having been received at the post office.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like others have stated, I have also seen an item not show any movement for many days,(just last week as a matter of fact) and then suddenly show up at a sorting facility in another part of the country. I did have some items just disappear, I got to know postal staff across the country after non delivery complaints online, unfortunately most of those were never located</p><p><br /></p><p>Strangely they do go off track at times also, last year I had one item go via Hawaii from near Austin TX to PA. Go figure how that happened, think I have the screen shot for that one someplace lol.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the receiving side of things I had a $550 order show as delivered to mailbox and was there within 12 minutes of it being 'delivered'. Lots of visits to the post office and around 5 days later it was actually delivered. Thankfully every item that gets scanned also is GPS logged when delivered and they found the package.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lueds, post: 7812215, member: 109500"]I got burnt once by just dropping into 'the box', as a result these days I take EVERY item I sell into the post office and get a receipt scan and load it on the system that day. That way, at the very minimum, it will show as having been received at the post office. Like others have stated, I have also seen an item not show any movement for many days,(just last week as a matter of fact) and then suddenly show up at a sorting facility in another part of the country. I did have some items just disappear, I got to know postal staff across the country after non delivery complaints online, unfortunately most of those were never located Strangely they do go off track at times also, last year I had one item go via Hawaii from near Austin TX to PA. Go figure how that happened, think I have the screen shot for that one someplace lol. On the receiving side of things I had a $550 order show as delivered to mailbox and was there within 12 minutes of it being 'delivered'. Lots of visits to the post office and around 5 days later it was actually delivered. Thankfully every item that gets scanned also is GPS logged when delivered and they found the package.[/QUOTE]
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