USPS strikes again

A few years ago I ordered a silver proof set from a guy on e-bay, paid for it with pay-pal, and patiently awaited delivery.....which never came. The fellow was located in South Jersey (I'm on Long Island) so when two weeks went by without me getting my set I contacted him. He sent me a tracking # and proceeded to tell me that the package had been delivered. When I tracked the package myself I learned that it had indeed been delivered, but that delivery was at 9:30 AM. My mailman delivers everyday between 12:00-12:30 PM. You can almost set your clock by him. I immediately filed a dispute with pay-pal explaining that mail is never delivered to my home at the time that tracking indicated that it was. They found for me and refunded my money. I suspect that someone within the postal service (knowing what the package contained) purposely misdirected the shipment.

 

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Yep my soon to be sister in law says people at the post office steal all the time. She also stated that it was blatantly obvious when they were investigating to see who may have been taking packages.

I'm still ticked that they refuse to honor the insurance agreement on a package I shipped.

 

Many collectors and dealers do all their delivery work through PO boxes to keep their home address confidential. Does FedEx deliver to PO boxes ? Howza 'bout UPS ?

 

Nunca.......:smile

 

That's what I thought. Which leads to some predictions :

• USPS will continue to handle many, many coin packages.
• They will continue to get the vast majority of them right on (and prompt, too).
• They will continue screw up a few... just like us addressees !

 

That's true. You can send SECRET documents through registered mail.

 

The mailmen around here tend to scan all their deliverly confirmations forms etc at the same time before they start their delievries in order to "save time" rather than scanning them when they actually deliver them.

 

Not so with my mailman, he always scans packages in my presence.