Any experience with registered mail claims? How long until they pay you?
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It has now been 3 weeks since my registered package was sent. No tracking update for 18 days. I have filed a claim and sent a missing mail search request.
Anyone have stories on their USPS payouts?
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I think it will surface. claim will clear the cobwebs on a few USPS safes.
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they have to use pack mules for registered mail and there was there was a big anti-vax strike in the mule union, so you're probably looking at a long wait
They will likely find it.... Stuck in a safe somewhere.... let us know. Cheers, RickO
Been quite a few years, but the only claim I filed (out of hundreds shipped), was paid within a couple weeks. I had already reimbursed the forum member it was shipped to.
Then a couple months afterwards, I received notice of a return to sender package at my PO. It was the lost package.
I asked if I could refund the payment from them and have the coins back. No sorry you can’t do that, you forfeit the contents when you file the claim!
That's interesting. What happens to them? Is there a USPS property liquidation auction?
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
I asked and they were vague about it. I was thinking they probably liquidate them somehow, and would have liked to buy them back that way, if possible,
He said it was returned to the sender who is presumably the seller. He can always contact the seller to see if he want to sell it again to him.
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The way I interpreted it, @Walkerguy21D was the seller.
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
Open a claim, they'll find it and get it moving. At least thats what happened to me the one time I had to take that step.
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Correct, I was the seller, sender, and claim filer. I reimbursed the buyer before the claim was paid. The buyer never got the coins, because apparently the zip code he provided didn’t match his address (he was off at college and apparently mixed something up). This was determined when I went to the PO to see the returned package, and explain to them I’d already been long paid for the claim I’d made on it.
registered mail can take longer than 3 weeks
Funny thing is if you had not brought it to the Post Office attention about buying package back they would have never noticed. You would have had possession of coins and your refund. Then you call and ask about buying back. If they say no tell them to kick rocks.
The post office does have a dead letter center in Atlanta. Anything of value , including items in your discussion , would be collected and sold at a auction. I believe the post office has several auctions a year.
If movement stops for an unusual amount of time, it will take some work. Each of those tracking stops have a "registered cage" and each item is physically signed for, that's why it takes so long. starting with the last indicated postal location, You must find a phone number for that postmast of better yet plant manager for that facility, they will transfer you to the regestered cage and they will check custody signature, That's how i found mine. It was sitting in the main post office in DC (Brentwood), the guy 9at registered cage) had it in his hand but the plant manager insisted it wasn't there, I showed up insisted he call the cage, and he apologized. He had to walk 2 football fields distance to get it. Bottom line was regional destination facility hadn't collected regesterd mail for 2 weeks, only authorized personnel can handle registered mail and THAT GUY was on vacation. you find that phone number,,,you find your item! Any postal people here that can elaborate/clarify???
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they do have USPS auctions, but try hard to find sender or addressee.
I think you have to wait 30 days to file a claim. You an file a report to have them look into it though. Then, expect about 30 days to be paid because they have to investigate, so 2 months I'm guessing.
Thanks for the comments. My last tracking update showed "Departed USPS Milwaukee" no updates after that. It was going to the east coast but no clue where it was headed next.
I guess I will just have to wait until they process the claim.
Three weeks is not too long for Registered Mail. I believe that it will show up.
Copied from the USPS website:
Tracking Registered Mail
Registered Mail (domestic and international) service and Registered Mail Restricted Delivery service alone cannot be tracked through the mailstream. Updated scans are not provided as the piece is processed from facility to facility.
I would be trying to talk to milwaukee, they could tell you what container, when and that container's destination
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Practically speaking, what good would that do? It wouldn’t speed up the delivery. And in the extremely unlikely event of a problem, it likely wouldn’t be revealed at that time.
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If it went through Washington DC, expect a 2-3 week dead zone. I had issues with my last registered package, it went missing for 3 weeks before it got scanned again. By the time they got around to "investigating" my package, it had been scanned again.
They might scan your package and they might not. As online tracking is not part of the service you paid for with registered mail, expecting you'll get it is just setting yourself up for disappointment.
Prediction: A month or so from now, someone who chose to ignore this fact will be back here, wondering why the tracking on his registered package doesn't get updated.