It finally happened
ChrisH821
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I received a package with no contents. 
The damage stamp from the post office before my local one is illegible.
Fortunately it was just a roll of cents and not an expensive coin.
Somewhere between Dayton Ohio and Peoria IL there are 50 shiny new 1984 cents entering circulation. 
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Not good packaging for a roll of coins.
At a minimum, when I ship in those types of holders, I run a few strips of the paper registered mail tape, usually in the form of a cross, on the back and also along the seems. I've been doing this since someone cut one of those types of mailers very neatly and pulled out a coin that was being sent to me. The registered mail tape stops any accidental breakage like you experienced and makes it just a tiny bit harder for someone to quickly use a moment's opportunity to try to sneakily cut into such a mailer and make it seem unmolested.
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Yikes !!!
That doesn’t look intentional.
That is some nasty damage.... I am happy to hear it was not an expensive loss....Definitely poor packaging for such a shipment. Cheers, RickO
Packing tape around the entire thing is not that expensive.
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Has happened to me just once. And eBay handled it awful. I had to eat the $128 loss even after providing them a full story, the tracking summary (which clearly showed it in limbo between New Mexico and the next destination for a week and these three pictures. Clearly driven over by a fork truck and ripped open, conveniently with just my invoice inside. Instead of bringing to the door the conveniently delivered it into my mailbox on a non-mail delivery day, the national day of mourning for George Bush. They required me to file a police report which I thought was ridiculous for someone with a spotless eBay record (never have filed a case). I refused to go to the police.
Jeff
Removed one image as it fully showed my address.
@ChrisH821 Your package looks like it might have been driven over too.
Jeff
Another example of the USPS running the nonmachinable mail(which you pay a premium for) through the sorting machines and destroying a package.
Yeah, that el' buff out.
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@cecropiamoth The black marks are about the same
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Forensic Files.
That USPS logo that says "We Care" seems pretty disingenuous
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It should say "We Careless".
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I know!!! At least they could have rang the doorbell and hand delivered it. But they knew it was empty, so they took the easy way out.
I understand things happen. The worst was how eBay handled it. I never returned a coin much less ever filed a claim. Went back and forth and they just kept denying the claim. On principle I refused to file a police report as I really didn't feel it was a police matter.
Jeff
I've had the "We Care" articles from time to time. The oddest one was when I got the plastic bag with the "We Care" explanation, all that was in the bag was a small corner of an envelope with my return address on it! Why even bother sending just a tiny scrap in the first place???
I have had 2 or 3 empties, and a couple smashed to pieces. In all cases, the post office person (or FedEx driver) put it directly into my hands, and explained what needed to be done.
The saddest was trying to "complete" our wedding china set. Our friends were not wealthy coming out of college, and we got a lot of odd plates, cups, etc. but over time, thanks to ebay, put together a very nice set. Oddly, this pattern has great legs, meaning it was popular (90+ sales in ebay recent history), and still is, and pieces can be very expensive, like over $400 for a single tea pot:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Noritake-GALLERY-Tea-Pot-435876/202582014974?hash=item2f2ad43bfe:g:IuQAAOSwRzZcUjRx:rk:3:pf:1&frcectupt=true
But the rarest are the wine glasses, made out of unobtanium. After years, I found a set of 12, for stupid cheap money, hit the buy it now, and they arrived. 1 box, all the glasses wrapped in 1 sheet of newspaper each, all smashed to pieces.
Okay,the package gets mishandled and the contents....I guess fall out somewhere....so????? where's the contents? I understand the brutal handling but I don't understand the theft of the contents.
"We hope you understand..."
"Please accept our apologies."
Why not at least reimburse the shipping if not the value of the package? USPS/common carriers are one of the few companies/industries where you must pay them extra to do it right and protect against their screw ups.
Or stomped > @cecropiamoth said:
Not really. It doesnt say what they care about. Could be anything.
That's how it goes. No telling what the actual scenario is... I like to imagine a post office somewhere with a sorting machine completely jammed up, coins all around it on the ground, and the maintenance guy swearing as he starts to work on it, "where did all these f** pennies come from?!"
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To be fair, at least that way you know that your envelope didn't arrive and the recipient isn't trying to pull a fast one (or that you can know to send your mother another birthday card).
When you care enough to send the very best... Use FedEx.
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I have had more lost FedEx packages than USPS packages.
Yeah, that was run over by a fork lift!
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