Lets take a poll...

JESSEJAMES

Who out here has ever had the post office ever lose a package? Any good post office stories to go with the poll??

mikeschmidt

<< <i>Who out here has ever had the post office ever lose a package? Any good post office stories to go with the poll?? >>



Depends - 'post office lose a package', or seller never really sent the package in the first place and simply screwing you out of the money....

jlbsquared

Never had the post office lose anything, ever, and that includes 700+ ebay transactions and 13 years of paying bills.... I did have an item recently take 11 days (parcel post) to travel less than 10 miles, however....

JESSEJAMES

I actually sent 1800 bucks worth of tickets to my friend across country... sent them priority with sig confirmation. they were misdirected and they took two weeks. i almost $hit a brick, but they got there eventually. next time i will take insurance! for sanity sakes.

onlyanumber

In all of my dealings on Ebay, I've had two packages go missing, so to speak. I had an item go out insured that 'never arrived'. Buyer complained two months after I mailed it that 'hey, I never got that' and asked for any receipts I had. So I made copies of the insurance and post office receipt and sent them to him. Never heard anything after that. I also had a VHS tape go out priority with delivery confirmation that was received, but the tape was missing (Box was tore open). But the post office did confirm that it was delivered--just torn to shreds. I of course, didn't insure that one and ended up refunding the buyer.

lostdart58

I have won over 2500 items on ebay the last 3-4 years ( and sold almost 400 items).....all were sent to me or by me via the USPS.................

TWO items NEVER arrived.
One envelope arrived torn open(and empty).
One recent item took 6 1/2 weeks to arrive...............and
One item actually arrived after 6 months.........

I have high praise for the USPS!!!!

bsfastball

I've got about 1500 transactions on ebay, never had a package get lost. I did have a few packages take over a month to be delivered though

fdnyladder7

items sent and recieved; 500+

items lost; 0 One buyer reported a Mantle not recieved until tracking proved otherwise. He won't pull that one ever again

onefasttalon

I too have have well over 1200 transactions on Ebay... and to this point, just one story sticks out in my mind. A while back, I sold (2) '86 Topps Traded Bonds cards for $60 (at the time, they onlu booked for $30/ea.) I was exstatic to get full book on Ebay! The guy paid me TWICE... and IMMEDIATELY! I refunded one of his payments, but he paid me again! Almost as if he really wanted to give me $120 for these cards! I shipped them out ASAP! About 3 months later... they came back to me. They were still in the exact same padded envelope I originally sent them in, but it looked as if it had been run-over by 13 mack trucks! Both cards were still in perfect shape! What can I say?, I package my cards well! I NEVER heard from the guy... EVER! Apparently, they had gotten lost in the mail, and eventually were returned to me.
The next week, I relisted them... got $35 for the pair (at the time, that was about right) and shipped'em off again. SO... I ended up with $155 for these two Bonds Traded cards, AND positive feedback from the 2nd guy! I'll never have that kind of luck again!

Stingray

Had an item that I mailed out on Feb. 6th has not been received. I take it that it has been lost.


Stingray

fdnyladder7

Something tells me you're about to be inundated with demands for their overdue item!

onefasttalon

Maybe!

baseballfanatic

Never had the post office lose one item, both buying or selling, however the mailmen seem to to enjoy alot of the Netflix movies I order, but thats another story............

Stone193

No packages.

And in my entire life - one letter - the electric company - and I'll bet they somehow threw it away.

The PO is one of the most efficient entities on the planet if one factors in the volume!

Everyone has their war stories but considering the volume....

mike

fiveniner

Only once in all my transactions 1,880 I have had 1 parcel an 86 Mets Kahns team set not reach its buyer.
As far as items I bought I did not recieve 1 51 bowman common card and a 1953 Topps Roy Face was missing from the envelope the seller had sent along with a letter from the USPS indicating that the item was damaged in transit.A couple items have taken quite some time to reach me ,one time as long as 6 weeks after postmark.

alohaet

Never.

Ed

JW

I just wish the USPS website showed the entire package tracking history. I had a package once that was incorrectly scanned as delivered but was actually not delivered after the postman noticed the insurance sticker on the package. So the postman rescanned the package again to try and remove the original delivery scan (at least this is what I was told). Next he scanned the package as being returned to the post office. So all I could see online was that the package was delivered. The USPS website only shows the first delivery scan and not the entire history but the internal USPS tracking system computers can see all of the scans for a package. Well needless to say when I went to pickup the package at the post office, they could not find it but agreed that it should be there somewhere according to the scans. It took them almost two weeks to find the package, but I had to open a research ticket with another USPS division to get someone to really look for the package. No one at my local post office would take responsibility until the research ticket was opened. I had also paid for the package with PayPal and I expected to lose my claim since the online version of the USPS website showed that the package was delivered. Needless to say, it all worked out in the end but it was a little nerve racking.

roastedcat

I've had a package show up on my door step 6 months later! The post mark showed the item was shipped. For 6 months I thought the seller never shipped the item, pocketed my money, he insured it, I ended up getting my money back, then 6 months later a package shows up on my door step.

I'm still getting returned christmas cards back to me from address that no longer exist, Infact I just recieved one return back to me yesterday. I usually send out my Christmas cards the 1st week of December.

I've had a few mishaps with the post Office. Sometimes when your not home to sign for something, they are suppose to leave a pink slip on the door to remind you to pick up an item. Sometimes they get to lazy to fill that out, and your waiting and not recieving. several months later you get a note from the Post office telling you to please pick up the package. I never even recieved a pink slip.

Jery

jimq112

<< <i>I just wish the USPS website showed the entire package tracking history. I had a package once that was incorrectly scanned as delivered but was actually not delivered after the postman noticed the insurance sticker on the package. So the postman rescanned the package again to try and remove the original delivery scan (at least this is what I was told). Next he scanned the package as being returned to the post office. So all I could see online was that the package was delivered. The USPS website only shows the first delivery scan and not the entire history but the internal USPS tracking system computers can see all of the scans for a package. Well needless to say when I went to pickup the package at the post office, they could not find it but agreed that it should be there somewhere according to the scans. It took them almost two weeks to find the package, but I had to open a research ticket with another USPS division to get someone to really look for the package. No one at my local post office would take responsibility until the research ticket was opened. I had also paid for the package with PayPal and I expected to lose my claim since the online version of the USPS website showed that the package was delivered. Needless to say, it all worked out in the end but it was a little nerve racking. >>



We can't. The only thing that gets scanned every step of the way is registered.

Regular, priority etc go into a cage and then onto a truck. The drivers don't scan them, so no update. The clerks don't scan them when they arrive, so no update. The sorting clerks don't have time to scan them. They get separated, grouped together, and transferred to their destination, again no scan.

At my office we don't have a distribution clerk so we open the bags of parcels and split them up. Entirely wrong but the USPS doesn't want to pay someone 4 hours to do an hour's work. We don't scan them when we split them up. I only scan when I get to the house, either delivered or attempted. Once in a while "refused" or undeliverable as addressed.

The post office would charge way more to provide more updates, they would have to add clerk hours at each office and also pay the carriers more. Not gonna happen.

As far as scanning delivered and then finding out it is insured and needs re-scanned, he did that wrong. You can delete the first scan, and then update it to "attempted". They don't teach you how to do it in mailman school so if nobody showed him and he didn't ask then he wouldn't know.

Sounds like your post office is either real big or real sloppy. There's no excuse for losing a package and then refusing to look for it. At the biggest office I ever worked at (180+ routes) we would usually have between 100-150 leftover packages on a shelf sorted by last name. Impossible not to find it in a minute or 2.

JW

jimq112,
Hello. I know that the items are not scanned at every stop like FedEx and UPS, but I would like the public website to reflect the same tracking history the internal/private USPS network shows. My post office did tell me it was not my normal postman and I think that created half of the problem. They also did not refuse to look for my package. I just don't think they were trying that hard to find it.
Thanks,
JW

iamthegreatcornholio

About 2% of my packages have been stolen by mailmen. All of them were insured and after 90+ days of waiting for each claim, they "graciously" honored my claim.

bri2327

<< <i>I too have have well over 1200 transactions on Ebay... and to this point, just one story sticks out in my mind. A while back, I sold (2) '86 Topps Traded Bonds cards for $60 (at the time, they onlu booked for $30/ea.) I was exstatic to get full book on Ebay! The guy paid me TWICE... and IMMEDIATELY! I refunded one of his payments, but he paid me again! Almost as if he really wanted to give me $120 for these cards! I shipped them out ASAP! About 3 months later... they came back to me. They were still in the exact same padded envelope I originally sent them in, but it looked as if it had been run-over by 13 mack trucks! Both cards were still in perfect shape! What can I say?, I package my cards well! I NEVER heard from the guy... EVER! Apparently, they had gotten lost in the mail, and eventually were returned to me. >>



Maybe the buyer saw all this cr@p coming with Bonds & was paying you to keep the cards

zef204

I got a neg from a HI seller that I sent cash to because it was $3. I have never before sent cash nor will I ever again. The guy had good feedback and I had just gotten cash for 3 items I sold, so I figured what the heck. Somehow that got "lost."

I had 3 items reported lost by the buyer and in the last yerI started using paypal w/ dliv conf with no problem.

rmoss

One of the first purchases I made made on eBay was for a Bob Dylan poster. I paid by money order and the poster just kept not coming. I sent the seller a couple of e-mails and he said he had sent the poster but in good faith he would resend another and this was the last one he had. It didn't come either. After 3 months I finally posted a negative to the seller's feedback. Two days later, march 19th, the poster arrived in the mail postmarked Jan. 29th. All I could do was e-mail the seller back and apologize and post a retraction and an explanation on the sellers feedback. I felt bad but what was a body to do.