Sent Brother Drip Tip in mail and package was tampered with

[Steve K]

I live in Pennsylvania and my brother lives in Maryland, and his drip tip to his vivi nova was loose so I sent him a used one in a little zip lock baggie wrapped in a paper towel,and he received the package/envelope except it was broke into and everything was present except the drip tip.This is very strange as It might have been checked with the Post office and taken out.I wonder if they take something like this thinking its drug paraphernalia and then have it checked at a lab somewhere??It was in a little baggie, Strange.

 

[Oomee]

Did you ask the post office about it ?

 

[RobinBanks]

was it just in a regular, non-padded envelope? If so, the mail sorter (machine) can do this.

 

[EvilZoe]

It seems to me that they would insert a note or something indicating that the item was seized.

 

[Daryl Glen]

That's messed up! That said, there are thousands of drip tips mailed all the time, I'm sure, so I don't think it's something they aren't used to seeing.

 

[peraspera]

The most likely explanation is that the mail sorting machine mangled the envelope with the contents becoming separated somewhere in the bowels of the sorting machine. This is not an infrequent occurrence with irregularly-shaped things stuffed in envelopes.

Tape small, odd-shaped items between a sandwich of corrugated cardboard with the corrugation of the two pieces running perpendicular to one another. That keeps the envelope flat and the corrugation prevents bending.

 

[r77r7r]

Haha, my first atty went bad and the supplier said to just pop it into an envelope. I did, but thought- mailservice isn't gonna like this...

 

[E_DeCastro]

did you use a padded envelope? My dad finds all kinds of stuff people try to mail in a regular envelope and just gets ripped out. it goes through a bunch of s bends and if it won't bend it gets torn out of the envelope.

 

[WarHawk-AVG]

Maybe the multi-armed letter flinger alien dude needed a new drip tip

WHAT?? He's into vaping now!

Spanish or something?!?!?

 

[TruckDrivinMama]

Careful about mentioning the big d word on here. I got my wrist slapped once by a moderator on here for a small mention of my past (and my apologies to retired 1). Dont want anyone to get in trouble.

Anyway, i work for a major delivery service in the US (not USPS). But small packages and envelopes get squished very often get squished by larger packages and bulks when they get unloaded from the trailers before they get sorted into small sort. From time to time, they fall in conveyor traps, below cage tracks, into gears of the conveyors, etc. i know this from years of working inside the building.

To the OP, your package (im guessing its a small) got torn up somewhere along the sort process. What we (and am guessing what USPS does) is that it goes to the 'over goods' section where broken, damaged packages get re packed. We take out the contents inside, save the package or mailing label, repackage with a new envelope, stick on the old mailing label for delivery or trailoring to another hub. That may be why it looks 'tampered' with.

BTW, for us, we get fed agents and local PD staff with canines sniffing for the illegal dangerous goods every so often.

 

[Steve K]

Well from the way my brother described is that the little baggie had a hole in it too,I think it got messed up in the sorter.It was a thin envelope,And it protruded through it.

 

[CommaHolly]

I make handmade cards with lots of bumpy embellishments (buttons, gems, bows, etc),,,,,,

seriously, those machines will TEAR this stuff up,,,,,

you have to use a padded envie, or 2 pieces of cardboard,,,,,,,,,,or pay extra for hand cancelling.

 

[heateris]

My daughter send a rainbow loom bracket inside a card. It got returned requesting additional postage because it wouldn't fit thru the sorting machine.


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[newconvert]

was it just in a regular, non-padded envelope? If so, the mail sorter (machine) can do this.

yes they are only human, wow!

 

[MrGimp]

I live in Pennsylvania and my brother lives in Maryland, and his drip tip to his vivi nova was loose so I sent him a used one in a little zip lock baggie wrapped in a paper towel,and he received the package/envelope except it was broke into and everything was present except the drip tip.This is very strange as It might have been checked with the Post office and taken out.I wonder if they take something like this thinking its drug paraphernalia and then have it checked at a lab somewhere??It was in a little baggie, Strange.

i have had the post office open mail before they will ALWAYS reseal the envelope with tape that says Opened for inspection by Post Master. or something to that effect. in one case the opened a shrinky-dink plaque with 2 little plastic feet in a regular envelop. that upon reflection felt like pills or something of the like. The other was A bubble-wrap padded envelope that had small electronic parts and a 5ml bottle of liquid. (non ecig related)