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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24633702, member: 26430&quot;]If it&#039;s only been 10 days or so, there&#039;s still plenty of time for it to show up. Your opportunity to file some kind of dispute won&#039;t expire in just a couple weeks, so there&#039;s no need to rush or panic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is this all within the United States Postal System? If so, before doing any kind of dispute or refund request, you really should, at a minimum, request a trace on the item from USPS. It&#039;s very easy to do. (I&#039;d wait a couple days from your last communication with the dealer, since it&#039;s possible they forgot to drop it off &amp; were embarrassed to say, but did so after your email.)</p><p><br /></p><p>If the shipper runs the lost item search, fine. But in my opinion, it&#039;s better to initiate it yourself so you don&#039;t have to worry about whether the dealer keeps you updated on the progress. There&#039;s a link on the tracking pages for USPS, or you can just search &quot;lost item&quot; on the website. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.usps.com/help/missing-mail.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.usps.com/help/missing-mail.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.usps.com/help/missing-mail.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Very quick/easy to fill out the request. USPS is <i><b>very </b></i>good at dealing with that stuff, even for cheap first class envelopes with tracking.</p><p><br /></p><p>Over the years I&#039;ve ordered or shipped at least hundreds of times (probably more) coins with USPS tracking, and occasionally they get temporarily lost. Nearly every time I&#039;ve requested the USPS track down a lost parcel with tracking (at least half a dozen), they&#039;ve successfully done it within days. Oftentimes they told me exactly what happened (e.g., it fell behind a table, an entire basket of mail was accidentally left in a truck being serviced, etc.).</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a frequent scenario posted in online ancient coin groups, and I would say in the vast majority of cases the coins just arrive a few days later than expected, and in the remainder, the dealer will usually offer some remedy (refund or replacement) -- but they usually want to wait a reasonable amount of time &amp; a&nbsp; lost item search on the tracking, so they&#039;re not refunding the coin and it arrives a few days later.</p><p><br /></p><p>The point being: this doesn&#039;t sound all that unusual, and rushing/panicking doesn&#039;t gain you anything, but it could cost you in terms of burning a bridge with a dealer/becoming known as someone who&#039;s hard to do business with.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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