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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numismania, post: 1188054, member: 28971&quot;]Funny...I just had consummated a trade deal with another forum member (after another member, who shall remain nameless, committed to a deal for these coins, but just walked away from it).&nbsp; My package made it (priority mail, with del confirm) in it&#039;s anticipated time.&nbsp; The package sent by the other member had del confirm on it.&nbsp; He dropped it off at a physical P.O., not just dropped it in a mail box.&nbsp; It NEVER got scanned at the P.O. he dropped it off at (BIG problem there....he paid for del confirm, and it was basically ignored).&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I can check the USPS website and track the del confirm #, and to this very minute, it shows the ONLY place this package got scanned at was when it hit the regional sorting facility (Boston area), on it&#039;s way to my city&#039;s sort facility.&nbsp; For at least 10 days we figured it got lost.....and &#039;lost&#039; was confirmed by the regional Postal office (the one you call with problems, where the people have brains, not the local Post Office, where an untrained chimp could get hired).&nbsp; Unbeknownst to me, it got delivered to the house, wound up in a pile of mail a jacket got put on top of.&nbsp; It was shipped on the 7th.&nbsp; When it was delivered, we&#039;ll have NO idea.&nbsp; I figure between the day it got dropped off at his local P.O. (where it SHOULD have been scanned IN as &#039;received&#039;), to the time it got delivered to my house, a minimum of 6 postal employees handled it...perhaps more.....and only ONE bothered to scan it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This was the SECOND package in that same week that got lost on me (second one was a cell phone battery...got sorted to another carrier&#039;s route....thankfully, the person who received it was honest enough to bring it to my house).&nbsp; The service the USPS gives is DEPLORABLE.&nbsp; I have absolutely NO faith in them.&nbsp; The worst part is, I have perhaps 20 coins all packaged, some high grade varieties worth more than just a few bucks, that WERE going to go to PCGS....now I don&#039;t know what to do, short of UPS, FedEx, or even delivering by hand....3,200 miles away.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This is on the heels (in November) of a $600 HK medal that had sig confirm on it....only to be signed for by a postal employee at 9PM, marked as &#039;delivered&#039;.....at 9PM!!!&nbsp; How many letter carriers are still delivering mail at 9:00 at night?&nbsp; NONE!&nbsp; Needless to say, that employee is no longer with them (theft or not, we&#039;ll never know).&nbsp; Yes, it was insured, and the claim was paid (took 3 months)...BUT, only the cost of the medal...they still keep the $$ they charge for postage, so I actually lost $$ on it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I have absolutely NO faith in the P.O. whatsoever, absolutely NONE....their heads are stuck so far up &#039;there&#039;, they can&#039;t see the light of day.&nbsp; And the worst part is, it really isn&#039;t brain surgery.&nbsp; Fortunately, things have worked out just OK, no thanks to the USPS.&nbsp; I hope the OP has better luck than I&#039;ve had lately.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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