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<p>[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 3358213, member: 96898"]Well, it's only February, and I already had two and a half problems with USPS this year:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. This not-so-common bracteate, ordered from Germany, is probably stuck in New York since January 5, no status update so far. DHL says they handed it over to USPS, USPS never scanned it. I am starting to worry.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]889607[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>2. A coin I bought on ebay got lost. It was sent as a registered first class parcel, was scanned as "out for delivery" one morning, and never arrived. Its tracking status says "awaiting delivery scan" for about two weeks now. When I called the post office and politely asked about this, their somewhat uncivil answer was to explain to me that they delivered thousands of items each day and thus didn't know every parcel on a first-name basis. A second call a couple of days later produced even less helpful results. My suspicion is that the carrier lost the parcel during his delivery tour. I submitted a missing mail research request about a week ago but didn't get any reply so far. This is a particularly unpleasant situation since the seller is not a large firm for whom this would be a normal risk of business, but a collector like me. I somewhat suspect that he is also a CT member and has posted in this thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. The three (bargain) lots I won at Artemide Aste earlier this month are sitting at the local post office since Wednesday night and are waiting to be delivered. That's about as long as it took them to get from Vienna to my Californian neighborhood. I hope they will arrive Monday but am starting to get uneasy.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, that's all coins I have bought in 2019. I guess I have had a delivery problem quota of 100% so far...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 3358213, member: 96898"]Well, it's only February, and I already had two and a half problems with USPS this year: 1. This not-so-common bracteate, ordered from Germany, is probably stuck in New York since January 5, no status update so far. DHL says they handed it over to USPS, USPS never scanned it. I am starting to worry. [ATTACH=full]889607[/ATTACH] 2. A coin I bought on ebay got lost. It was sent as a registered first class parcel, was scanned as "out for delivery" one morning, and never arrived. Its tracking status says "awaiting delivery scan" for about two weeks now. When I called the post office and politely asked about this, their somewhat uncivil answer was to explain to me that they delivered thousands of items each day and thus didn't know every parcel on a first-name basis. A second call a couple of days later produced even less helpful results. My suspicion is that the carrier lost the parcel during his delivery tour. I submitted a missing mail research request about a week ago but didn't get any reply so far. This is a particularly unpleasant situation since the seller is not a large firm for whom this would be a normal risk of business, but a collector like me. I somewhat suspect that he is also a CT member and has posted in this thread. 3. The three (bargain) lots I won at Artemide Aste earlier this month are sitting at the local post office since Wednesday night and are waiting to be delivered. That's about as long as it took them to get from Vienna to my Californian neighborhood. I hope they will arrive Monday but am starting to get uneasy. By the way, that's all coins I have bought in 2019. I guess I have had a delivery problem quota of 100% so far...[/QUOTE]
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