did u ever have a package get lost in the mail.

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I mailed my friend a package first class us mail on friday.. they said it should be there by monday...still he hasent gotten it....It only went from vermont it florida....im startin to get nervous. has the u.s mail ever totaly lost your package?
 
I have never had anything totally lost. I have had packages/letters take an odscene amount of time to get to me. I remember one instance where it took them over a week to get a letter to me, from Brooklyn to Queens! :D I could have walked there and back faster.
 
Not with the US Post Office, but I have had UPS deliver packages to my street number but on a different street and then tell the shipper that they have delivered them to me. I have played Hell finding those packages at least twice in the past year.
 
I have mailed a couple of thousand items and only lost two.Stuff gets misdirected and can be lost for a long time but it will show up.
 
First class can easily take a week, especially a package. Besides, I don't think of Vermont to Florida as "only" from Vermont to Florida.
 
Add to the anxiety that its a new toy out there floatin around, that can really suck :mad:

Or you`ve sent payment to a seller for the first time and your package arrives in record time, and the MO is stuck to the cheeks of a mail sorters ass with twinkie creme :eek:

I have a similiar deal going on right now, I have a package that is delayed some@#$%^ where and the seller (undisclosed until appropriate time) is absolutely on top of it,

He`s communicating and doing everything you could expect. Can`t wait to come back to this thread and have a laugh :D

Hope your package arrives soon,

Now, lets go buy and sell some more knives :cool:
 
It took 8 day's for a package from Vermont to reach me here a couple hours away in NY.I also had a package arrive from Arizona to NY almost 1 year to the day after it was mailed.On the other hand,my wife has mailed several letters from NY overseas to England and Japan regular airmail and they got there overnight or in two day's.Go figure :confused:
 
I bought a knife from a custom maker in Mississippi. He sent it priority, and it took two weeks to get to Florida (I could have driven there and back several times). I think USPS guarantees delivery times with Express mail, but they do not guarantee delivery times with lesser forms of postage, including Priority. Wait a week to ten days before you panic.
 
I've been fortunate so far, in all my ebay and other ordering, I've had 1 used book never arrive, (the seller quickly refunded) and 1 Rosary that I bought off ebay when I was studying the history of the Rosary, was destroyed by postal machines because the seller just mailed it in a standard white envelope, (he sent a replacement that was much nicer than the original).
 
florida is usually an extra day at least because everything goes thru i think tampa... so don't lose hope.
 
Yes, in a round about way. I shipped a knife to a US location where it arrived safely. That party had been arranged by the buyer in the UK to then ship the knife to him. He has never received the knife, and I'm pretty sure it's lost or stolen as it's been a good 4 years :(. I have my doubts that it was ever shipped personally, but the buyer seemed to believe the shipper if I remember correctly, although no insurance or tracking could be provided. Oh yeah, the worst part..........The knife in question was a Scott Cook Lochsa :(
 
I'm still waiting for a ring I bought my girlfriend about a year and a half ago to get here. The sender did provide proof of shipment, but still nothing. I had ordered from said person before and I know he packs well so I'm not entirely sure what happened. I suspect a sticky fingered postal employee. :mad:
 
I have a package that is gone. It had delivery confirmation, and the Post Office confirms it was dropped off 2 days after it was mailed. Delivered at 10:38AM, when I was sitting at home waiting for it. They are trying to find it, but it doesn't look good. Tomorrow will be 2 weeks since it was confirmed "delivered". I am shipping with signature confirmation now, and might start shipping with insurance, which I think is a scam. You can either do the job or not, if you can't then let someone else do it.
Oh well.




Blades
 
I recently received a package that took 25 days to go from Florida to Denver. Another package from Massachusetts only took two days. Have never had anything get lost for good, although I did have one package with about $1500 in contents float around for about six months. I had given up on it and all of a sudden it showed up at my door.
 
FWIW, I used to work at an online wholesale outlet. We shipped via FedEX, UPS, and USPS. We sold mostly consumer electronics (GPS, Car Stereo, Metal Detectors, PDAs, etc.) Often we would ship just about anything via UPS or FedEX with little or no worries, but if we shipped through the post office, we had to wrap the entire package in tape with the shipping address / return address under the tape and the entire box perfectly sealed (I mean airtight with two or three layers of tape). We did not send out a single item that wasn't certified and insured through the post office. Seemed to me that those unnecessary precautions were only needed with the post office. I know UPS and FedEx automatically insure all packages up to $100 US, anything valued at more than that was usually insured to the exact amount but I stress again, it wasn't an issue with UPS and FedEx.

Recently (two years ago) a friend of mine in Chicago decided to do me a favor and ship me MS Flight Sim 2004 Pro for my birthday. He shipped it postal, packaged it correctly, taped my address and his to it. As of this date, I still have not received it. He did not insure it and the postal service has flat refused to help him locate the package. His best guess is that someone there opened it and took it.

I hadn't given much thought to the practices used by my former employer for using postal service. Apparently this is the norm for almost every business that regularly ships items through the post office (i've asked). Guess the post office works the same way as every other branch of government service.

-Sun Runner-
 
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