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<p>[QUOTE="calcol, post: 2999088, member: 77639"]I ordered some coins from a country in central Asia. Registered mail with insurance was $80, and it had a tracking number. Discovered later, the address label was complete except my street number was left off. I live on a numbered road with the format of yyyyy Road xx. The xx was left off the address label; otherwise it was complete. My phone number was on the shipping label too.</p><p><br /></p><p>As soon as it arrived in the local PO, they immediately sent it back because of an incomplete address. My town isn’t huge and my name isn’t common, if they had googled what was on the address label, my complete address would have popped-up immediately. If they had called the phone number, I could have given them the complete address or told them to hold it for me. If they had held it even 24 hours, I could have picked it up. I followed the tracking and was there when they opened the next morning after I saw online that it had arrived. Too late; they had already sent it back. It would be too much effort to do more than stamp “return to sender” and chuck in the returns bin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Small wonder private parcel companies are doing so well!</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="calcol, post: 2999088, member: 77639"]I ordered some coins from a country in central Asia. Registered mail with insurance was $80, and it had a tracking number. Discovered later, the address label was complete except my street number was left off. I live on a numbered road with the format of yyyyy Road xx. The xx was left off the address label; otherwise it was complete. My phone number was on the shipping label too. As soon as it arrived in the local PO, they immediately sent it back because of an incomplete address. My town isn’t huge and my name isn’t common, if they had googled what was on the address label, my complete address would have popped-up immediately. If they had called the phone number, I could have given them the complete address or told them to hold it for me. If they had held it even 24 hours, I could have picked it up. I followed the tracking and was there when they opened the next morning after I saw online that it had arrived. Too late; they had already sent it back. It would be too much effort to do more than stamp “return to sender” and chuck in the returns bin. Small wonder private parcel companies are doing so well! Cal[/QUOTE]
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