Fascinating Postal Phenomenon
Love of the Game
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It's amazing.
Every time a friend sends me a letter, I receive it.
Every time someone I know sends me a postcard from abroad, it arrives at my house.
Every time LL Bean sends me a catalog, it gets delivered.
Every month, all my magazines get here.
One time as a joke, a friend of mine sent me an asparagus in a plain white envelope. The Post Office put it in a ziploc bag and delivered it to me with an apology.
One time, someone mailed me a letter and all it had was my name and my town, and it got to me.
Not once in my life (that I'm aware of) have I sent someone a letter in the mail and not have it delivered.
And yet once in a while, when I forget to buy insurance on an Ebay purchase, the package seems to get lost in the mail. But oddly enough, it only happens when the purchase was a really good deal for me.
-Al
Every time a friend sends me a letter, I receive it.
Every time someone I know sends me a postcard from abroad, it arrives at my house.
Every time LL Bean sends me a catalog, it gets delivered.
Every month, all my magazines get here.
One time as a joke, a friend of mine sent me an asparagus in a plain white envelope. The Post Office put it in a ziploc bag and delivered it to me with an apology.
One time, someone mailed me a letter and all it had was my name and my town, and it got to me.
Not once in my life (that I'm aware of) have I sent someone a letter in the mail and not have it delivered.
And yet once in a while, when I forget to buy insurance on an Ebay purchase, the package seems to get lost in the mail. But oddly enough, it only happens when the purchase was a really good deal for me.
-Al
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So it does happen, sucks though!!
Mike
If I was dishonest and kept the item, the person it was meant for would have had no luck trying to get his or her money back, because the seller would have had postal proof of delivery. A definitely a case of "delivery confirmation" not confirming anything.
I just think it's extraordinary that I've made about 300 purchases on Ebay since August, and in that time, three items have been lost. All three had two things in common: 1) I got the item for a great price, and 2) I forgot to purchase insurance. On one of the three items, I accidentally sent feedback before I received the item.
Sure, I'm a knucklehead for forgetting the insurance, but after it happens a third time, it seems less like a postal issue and more like an unscrupulous seller tactic.
-Al
(edited for clarity)
Back about two years ago, I was upgrading the Mickey Mantle in my 1952 Bowman Set. I bought a PSA 5 for (I think) $550 on Ebay. They shipped it FEDEX. A few days later I get the FEDEX box delivered to me. I opened it up, and
By the way, anybody remember WIWAG (When It Was A Game)? That's who I bought it from! The last I remember, those guys went to jail, or something like that!
Shane
Nick
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Shane
I've never had any mail lost either. It seems to me if you buy insurance on an ebay purchase, it will come 100% of the time. But if you don't insure it, your odds are significantly decreased. I'm still waiting on Nov 13 ebay purchase which I didn't insure, but I don't blame the PO, I blame myself for buying something from someone named Big Al Something-Something...
Currently I'm sweating out my Nov 27 PSA submission, since it went out uninsured - the postlady having insisted that collectibles were not insurable. Man, will I be happy when that sucker gets logged in on the website!
Chris