So, i have been waiting for a few wheaties in the mail, and i am actually pretty patient when it comes to these sort of things, long weekend, holiday and all whatever. So i check the mail today and nada. So i track the package and it says delivered yesterday. This is the third time i have had either coins or coin supplies go missing since being at this address. WTF is the problem over there? I understand it is bound to happen sooner or later, but c'mon three times in 18 months? I just sent another letter to my local postmaster and am getting kind of frustrated by their lack of action. Luckily it was only a few bucks value this time, but all three packages they have lost now total about $50-60 beans im out!!!!! I recall recently reading a thread ATS about a postal employee getting busted for stealing from a processing center, but that couldn't be the case if it is tracked as delivered. BTW i live in a condo the type with pods of about 15 mail boxes. Perhaps the carrier is just putting it in the wrong box? I recently got some of my neighbors mail in my box. To be brutally honest i am sick of this #$%^. How hard is it to put an envelope in the correct box? Apparently, it's pretty hard!!! Ok i am done ranting, so has this happened to any of you?
It did happen to me once Kevo. A few years ago I ordered a silver '99 proof set off o' e-bay and when I tracked it, the info showed it was delivered at 9:30 AM. What bunk, as the mail carrier doesn't deliver to my residence till 12-12:30 PM. Pay pal dispute entered and I got my money back but it irks me that someone made off with the goods......
Hey Kevo, I feel for ya, man. I went through not getting a product from the bay not too long ago. It turned out to be the seller that was the problem. I realize the post office is most likely the problem, and hope your problem gets resolved soon. Or, you may have to get a P.O. box (although you shouldn't have to.)
I will give you one way it can happen and you can meet some of you neighbors. I live at 1234 XXX terrace, my neighbor lives at 1234 XXX street and there is a 1234 XXX avenue. I happen to live where there are only 2 of them, but some places there are 3 or more of them.
As the problem you're experiencing is lost mail, I doubt that sending letters is the best way to fix it...I kid, but at the same time, I do think an in-person visit to your post office might elicit more decisive action from them.
I'm going through this kind of situation right now. The seller put a tracking number on it and it was shipped about three or four weeks ago. So I check the tracking number and it says it arrived at the postal sorting facility on whatever date, and then that's it. It went into the sorting facility and never came out again. The seller is trying to shake it out of the post office right now but I'm not optimistic. I probably lose about 1 in every 100 coins I order off eBay, and I live in a condo as well. I've never in my life lost a bill or similar communique, just merchandise. I don't know if it's being stolen or what. Previously though I lived in an apartment and when I ordered bigger packages the postal carrier would leave them outside the door. I had two books and a bulk order of coins vanish. I determined it was either my shady neighbor or her friends taking them, so I had to ask the post office to hold all of my big packages and then go pick them up myself. It was really annoying, but that was the only way to make sure I got them.
Most likely they were delivered to the wrong address. (That's the problem with delivery confirmation, it just confirms that it was delivered, not WHERE it was delivered.) I am on W Water St, I frequently receive mail for either my next door neighbor, the place across the street, or for the same address on E Water St. At home I live in an apartment building and I frequently get mail addressed to one of the other apartments. Sometimes such mix-ups are understandable though. When I lived in KY there were three streets within a half mile of were I lived, all with similar house numberings Burell St, Burrel St, and Burrell St, and none of them connected to each other. Another troublesome street was Garrs Lane, there were six of them scattered around the city in different zipcodes.
Similar addresses are the worst i cant count how many times i have gooten someone Elses mail with the same number down the street
I guess this is a horror story thread so I'll share my worst one. About 8 months I bought two coins from the same dealer on ebay at the same time. The coins combined prices were over $150 so I got insurance and tracking on 'em. My wife works at the local post office in our small town thankfully. Wife said she was sorting the mail and seen something shiny down in the bottom of the mail crate. She dug down and behold, MY COINS! AHHH! Somehow they had come out of the packaging and were loose in the bottom of a big mail crate. Unbelievable! Had my wife not worked at the Post Office, I would not have the coins today. Upon inspection of the package, it was well wrapped, however the entire bottom corner was torn off! How the **** does something like that happen?
