I'm so fed up with USPS. (RANT)
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Yes I agree - that is a bit much.
Perhaps it was left outside of your box and someone lifted it?
You would be shocked at some folks - they will just as brazenly come over and take your stuff if it has been left out in the open.
People suck
I feel for you
No it wasn't left out. All three were very small packages. My letters arrived fine, my packages, never made it into the box. Though they were scanned as delivered.
That is freaking messed up.
Do the PO box....you won't be disappointed.
If you stuff disappears at that point, they will be looking in - house for the culprit.
Bogeyjim Im in the same situation but in Brighton Co. The USPS has lost a couple of my packages and I havent ever found one of them. I get other peoples mail daily and have complained to management who has went as high as the Postmaster but nothing has been done about it. This has been a four year problem and proof that unions are useless!
i had the same "delivered" message as you did. i skipped calling the branch and called the main number. i made a report and within 15 minutes someone from my branch called me. they asked the stupid questions and i told him no i didn't receive it. he told me to go to my apartment mailboxes, because my mailman is coming to open the boxes to make sure he didn't put it in the wrong box, he didn't. the "delivered" message said it was delivered at 12:15pm, my mailman didn't get to my apartment complex until 1:45, we know this because i had 4 other packages delivered that day and they where marked 1:45. so the branch manager had my mailman backtrack his steps and found it at a totally different apartment complex 3 blocks away.
i hope everything works out for you.
i hope everything works out for you.
I feel for you man. It's like no one cares. I want to get the address of the mail carrier and go take her packages. Then she'll see what we're all complaining about!
4 years. That blows man! That new range out in Brighton is pretty sweet huh? Went and shot some clays there not too long ago, and used the pistol range. Great spot!
K, So ive read this thread and a couple of things stick out to me. One, if I had this many instances of "missed packages" I wouldnt continue to keep ordering things without first getting the problem resolved, being around when the mail comes (since you were laid off) and watching the process, or after losing way more than a p.o box would cost for a couple years probably, going that route. Someone mentioned it earlier, but those boxes, locked are not, are not secure. Almost any thief can open one of those mailboxes. I also doubt its your carrier that has devious plans of stealing kanthal and juice at the risk or losing there pretty decent job. Another thing that I didnt understand, how is it that the vendors you order from are responsible in anyway for any of this? I personally wouldnt ask a vendor to resend something they didnt lose. Seems odd, but really nice on their part, that there willing to do that for you. Id be showing them some brand loyalty.
PS: Jump in the Delorean, hit 88 on the freeway, set the clock to a few weeks ago, and buy a P.O box
PS: Jump in the Delorean, hit 88 on the freeway, set the clock to a few weeks ago, and buy a P.O box
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Forgot to mention. While your in the delorean make sure back up to the day you signed a lease in that neighborhood...... and dont.
Wish they wouldn't lie about delivery dates. I was suppose to have something delivered on the 25th, it's now the 26th and it hasn't even reached my state yet lol. Ahh good ol usps. They must of ran out of space on the truck so they threw my package on horseback from Arizona. 4 days from Arizona and hasn't reached Florida yet? Rather odd.
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Gary,
Funny man! The vendor is not responsible I agree. However, I've worked in E-commerce in my past two jobs. The customer doesn't care who screwed up, all they know is they paid for something and they never received it. So I can see both sides of it definitely. The thing is, the vendor is free to choose UPS to ship ( that's what we ultimately ended up doing due to too many lost packages via USPS).
Anywho, I'm off to get a PO box. The Delorean is in the shop.
Funny man! The vendor is not responsible I agree. However, I've worked in E-commerce in my past two jobs. The customer doesn't care who screwed up, all they know is they paid for something and they never received it. So I can see both sides of it definitely. The thing is, the vendor is free to choose UPS to ship ( that's what we ultimately ended up doing due to too many lost packages via USPS).
Anywho, I'm off to get a PO box. The Delorean is in the shop.
It seems to me the vendor is still responsible until verification the purchaser receives it. Should be, anyway, since it's the vendor's call what organization is shipping the item.
But your problem extends beyond that.
But your problem extends beyond that.
Sorry your having troubles!
I would get the lock changed on the box. Ask the management at the complex to have maintenance change it. If they say it's P.O. job ask them. Or change it yourself, they are usually real easy to switch out (spring clip or nut). Just take yours off (after your mail runs) and take it to a lock shop or Lowes/Menards/HomeDepot or hardware store. Most of them carry locks and they're usually about $4-$8.
Good Luck!!
I would get the lock changed on the box. Ask the management at the complex to have maintenance change it. If they say it's P.O. job ask them. Or change it yourself, they are usually real easy to switch out (spring clip or nut). Just take yours off (after your mail runs) and take it to a lock shop or Lowes/Menards/HomeDepot or hardware store. Most of them carry locks and they're usually about $4-$8.
Good Luck!!
I just got my PO box today so problem should hopefully be solved. No more shipping packages to my apartment. Which is a big inconvenience, but not as big as never receiving what I order.
That is terrible. In January this year I placed my P.O.Box fee payment in the in box at my post office but did not receive a receipt, 2 months later my box was locked for non payment.
Somehow the envelope with my check was lost in the post office, it didn't have to go anywhere by mail as it was already there! After talking to the postmaster and her calling the previous employee that was on duty at the time they should have received it I was told that they had no idea where it was. To this day it has not been found or cashed.
Somehow the envelope with my check was lost in the post office, it didn't have to go anywhere by mail as it was already there! After talking to the postmaster and her calling the previous employee that was on duty at the time they should have received it I was told that they had no idea where it was. To this day it has not been found or cashed.
Yes, his problem does extend beyond that.
However, I don't agree about vendor being responsible til verification from reciever.
Unless buyer pays for signature and/or insurance, there is no way to ensure a product gets to the person. Tracking is merely to show that it was sent by seller....... and accepted into the care of the USPS system. In tort law it's like turning over baggage to amtrack or airlines...once they accept it, the responsibility is with them.
There are a few companies like REO, and maybe Provari, who make you sign for delivery. That is to ensure that you received the item that they shipped. But you pay for that, it's almost $8.00 shipping.
And that is precisely why USPS has forms to fill out for lost stuff. (It all goes to Atlanta somewhere. I have actually "found stuff" like that.)
If internet vendors on the internet and people on ECF classies had to re-ship everything that was lost or misdelivered by USPS or stolen off mail tables in apartment buildings, it would be a shambles.
Tracking was NEVER meant as a way to assure delivery, it is actually just protection to a seller to show they shipped something, so they can't say they did and then didn't place anything into the mail.
USPS will tell you the same thing......tracking does not ensure delivery. Signature confirmation, insurance, etc. protect against lost packages. And it costs more.
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