I live in a small town with a low crime rate, but....

ziggy29

...I'd like to think the USPS would still require a signature for a registered, insured package coming back home from PCGS instead of just leaving it in a mailbox that anyone could have stolen from.

Apparently I'm wrong.

ctf_error_coins

you got it a day early, you should be happy

TomB

Well, just think, at least it was left today (Halloween) when you might not expect anyone to suddenly show up at your door and take the package.

CarlWohlforth

That is crazy! If it had been stolen the USPS could not prove you received the package because you didn't sign for it. So I would expect them to pay up on the claim.

Crazy things like that, and a rash of neighborhood mail box robberies, caused me to rent a PO box years ago.

ziggy29

Yeah, I think next time I have them ship to my PO Box.

shorecoll

I also live in a small town and USPS did the same thing to me yesterday.

LindeDad

You both need to have a conversation with your local Post Master.
That is basically a criminal offense. Do not confront the carrier as the tern “Going Postal” has origins in fact.
Oh and expect to see a new delivery person on your route.

ricko

I have noticed that small town mail delivery is quite informal. They certainly do not stand on protocol. Perhaps a few claims that they end up paying would help to 'tighten up' the operation. Cheers, RickO

pennyannie

I live in a small town and my mail man drives up to the house to deliver my mail when we recieve padded envelopes or boxed mail. Very rarely do we ever sign. He may do the signing for us. lol. Our mail is delivered around noon everyday, sometimes when i mail packages close to 5 p.m. they will give me any mail that has already come in or been sorted for the following day. Plus any new gossip going thru the town seems to be known first by the mail carriers

Geoman

I also feel I have a pretty lax mailman. I live somewhat out in the country where someone in their own cars delivers the mail (not a postal employee). He just leaves the slip I am suppose to sign for in my mailbox, with a little post-it note on it asking me to please sign and return to him in a few days.

I also got a PO Box because of the lack of security.

Kennewickman

I have a wonderful postlady, she usually delivers around 1:00 pm. If she has a package for me that needs my signature and I'm not home she will finish her route and then come back to my house to see if I'm home yet.

Now if I could only get a decent paperboy!

wally

JupitarCoins

Plus any new gossip going thru the town seems to be known first by the mail carriers >>



Yea thats because they are the ones committing the gossip by going after your wives or girlfriends. Oh yes that happens!!
I have two friends that are postal carriers, and they are happy workers.

PrivateCoinCollector

What package?

blu62vette

How can you not sign for registered? That is insane.

coinman420

as LindeDad stated above you need to tell your postmaster that a registered package was left without being signed for. if my mailman did that I would go postal

mr3holesinone

I live in a smallish town and the business I worked for used to have a post office box. We would get someone else's mail at least once a week in our PO box. I'm not sure if they are more careful when the mail looks more important or not (that is, small boxes, certified & registered). The mail delivery to the house is even worse. We are always getting the neighbor's mail and sometimes it's somewhat important; like a Victoria's Secret package that was once delivered, lol.

fivecents

I thought PCGS only used registered USPS. If so, it never would have been left in your mailbox.

notwilight

He doesn't know PCGS. He probably doesn't really expect anyone to be receiving significant valuables in the small town. He doesn't have much if any problem with theft, especially from mailboxes. It fit in your mailbox. I'm sure he thought that he was taking a very small risk to do you a favor. I bet he knows he was at risk since he didn't get you to sign. He may not know how serious the his boss', boss', boss' would have been if it got stolen and the USPS had to pay but he would have found out the hard way. If I were you I'd leave things exactly the way they are. Be happy you don't have to go to the PO and don't tell him how valuable the things are in the package. He sounds very trustworthy, but he might have loose lips. --Jerry

RenoTommy

Several years ago, I bought a very expensive watch that cost over $8000. The seller's secretary forgot that my address was a PO box. As you know, UPS didn't deliver to PO Box. Instead of returning the package to sender, someone at UPS ostensibly looked up the county phone book to find the first household that had the same last name as mine and instructed the driver to leave the package at the doorstep. Unfortunately, I lived 2 counties away, and the mistake was not discovered until 5 days later. Lucky for UPS, the driver was able to retrieve the package from the household and forwarded it to me.

A passerby on the street could have picked up the package or the occupants of that household could just simply denied ever seen that package, UPS would have no recourse but to "eat" the loss. How stupid and negligent could that be?