Lost Package

notdos

notdos

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Well,,I guess it had to happen eventually.:(

I sent a package via USPS Priority Mail Insured with Delivery Confirmation on July 7th to someone in Hawaii,,,it hasn't arrived.
It typically takes 2 to 3 days for a pm package to go pretty much anywhere within the borders,,add an extra 1 to 2 days for Hawaii. I have to assume that the knife is gone so please be on the look out for a Blackwood Neck Ninja HD with a wood handle. I've attached a pic.
Yes, I know it might still show up but I'm not feeling to positive at this point.

Phillip
 
I bought a knife / cigar cutter from Zenghost in HI and it took longer than 3 days to get to me. I hope that this is the case for you and that everything turns out to your satisfaction. Actually, I consider it a small miracle that this couldn't happen on a regular basis.

Best of luck!!

P.S. NICE BLACKWOOD!!


Edited 'cause I can't spell worth a hoot!!
 
I just received a package from HI last week. It took 8 days I think it was. Give it a bit more time. I wouldn't count it out just yet.
 
1) Insured at USPS means you wait 30 days before they will even listen. Then they will try to screw you everyway possible. It took over a year for me to get my money. And they didn;t lose anything. It isn't laying around in the bottom of a bin. Some USPS employee stole it.

2) Casualties to date: 1 Ken Steigerwalt scale action release and 2 Turnbull folders.

3) I have gone to DHL.
 
a year and a half ago, the first Christmas after 9/11.........I paid $1250 for a watch from a reputable dealer on timezone...........

He sent it insured priority mail.

I got it one month to the day later!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Frank White sent me an AR upper (cost about the same as the watch) and it took 6 weeks to get to me...........dont panic, its just your government services at work!!!!!!! :p :rolleyes: :p
 
notdos,

I hate to make you any more nervous than you already are, but on 05/29/03 I sent a knife to a guy in Waipahu, Hawaii, and he received it on 06/02/03. He sent me a knife on 05/29/03, and I received it on 06/02/03. That was 3-4 days delivery for both of us, and we both used USPS Priority Mail.

But I'd still give your package a couple weeks total before you start freaking out.
 
Yeah,,I pretty much figure I'm screwed. The tracking thing says it was processed and left Richmond Ca. on the 10th(3 days after I shipped it from Alabama which is right on schedule). So unless they're transporting via canoe from Cali,,I'd say somebody has a new Blackwood.

:mad:
 
Phillip,
I feel your pain, cuz it happened to me. Not long after 9-11, I bought a big Mayo from a guy in Florida. He sent it USPS Priority Insured. It took 3 weeks to get to me in Calif.! The seller and I both figured it had been grabbed! The Post Office had no explaination for the delay. Go figure.

My money says your's will show-up in a week!;)

Good luck,
Frank:cool:
 
Like I said before...Give it a little more time 'till you start freaking out. Depending on where it was heading in Hawaii, the natives might have to perform some sort of religious ritual (to ward-off evil spirits) with your package before it is delivered, and that can take up to a week...And then there is the out-rigger canoe journey between all those little islands to consider.:D.
 
notdos: did you personally drop it off at the U.S. Post Office? Recently, someone in Texas sent me a knife. He said he sent it Priority Mail through a mail service (not Mailboxes, etc., but like that).

Well, even though he paid for Priority, the service sent it Parcel Post and pocketed the difference. It took nearly 3 weeks for the knife to show up, because it came by boat.

I've done quite a bit of buying/selling/trading over the last 6 months and I have yet to lose a package, or have one sent to me lost. Over all that time, the only time I've seen a message like the one you posted was the time the package came Parcel Post. I don't think that the U.S.P.S. tracks packages like the other delivery services do. The messages I've always gotten when tracking a package are telling me that the package left the Post Office and arrived at the destination. If you are getting an intermediate message, that the package is being processed in CA, it may very well be on a boat.

Of course, if you personally dropped it off at the P.O. and have the Priority Mail receipt, then all this is out the window. In that case, give it a few more days before you start to panic.
 
I've had two instances of slow delivery via USPS Priority, but both eventually arrived. A box I recently shipped to San Diego from Orange County took four business days, because I reversed two of the zip code numbers by accident. Last winter, a Priority package from Chicago to me in OC was held up for over two weeks, because the label ink got smudged and both the sender and recipient addresses were partly illegible. Fortunately, the shipper used delivery confirmation and was able to have the PO locate it that way.

I would call USPS or drop by a PO to have them follow up. If it's the PO's fault, at least the sender should be able to recoup the cost of Priority shipping. :)

Glen
 
Klesk...
Speaking of, let me know when you get your package! I got mine in short order from Hawaii, and hope the other gets there as fast.



On a side note... Ross, your picture looks different than I imagined...:D
 
While my shipping times (to and/or from Hawaii) have varied greatly, one thing that has always been consistent is that it shows up eventually. I got something from NewGraham that took 28 days to reach me. I've had something from Washington (west coast) take 9 days to reach me. I've learned to accept that things will take their time getting to and from here. It sucks, but can't do much about it. We'll see how long it takes Sabo to get the Inova X5T that I have waiting for him. I realize that with a knife that nice, it's going to cause you some worry, but hopefully the natives will finish the ritual soon and it'll get here. Of course now I'm going to go to the P.O. and see if they have anything in the lost and found...:p :D
 
Originally posted by ZENGHOST
Of course now I'm going to go to the P.O. and see if they have anything in the lost and found...:p :D
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:D :eek:

I guess what really worried me was that the mail there is handled by a contract service(?) unless I mis-understood my friend in HI.
 
Nope, mail in Hawaii is handled by the U.S. Postal Service, just like anywhere else in the U.S.

Notdos: I'm not sure if you read my post above, but did you ship through a mailing service, like Mailboxes, etc? Or did you take the knife to the Post Office yourself?
 
1) To save your address from washing out, it's a good idea to scotch tape over it. Do not tape over a stamp, though, or the Postal Service won't accept it (because it can't be cancelled properly).

2) Place an address label inside the package, just in case the outer label gets ripped off, the "dead letter office" can open it and see where it's going.

3) The Postal Service does track packages, just like other services, but only expedited or special service packages -- Express Mail or Registered or Certified, not ordinary mail. New York City alone gets over 10,000,000 pieces of ordinary mail a day. No way they track that.

4) Give it time. I just had a money order take 12 days to get to its destination, marked 'opened in error in the post office'. And that was in a simple business envelope.

5) Beautiful knife. Don't let that keep you awake nights. When it gets there eventually, you'll regret the unnecessary insomnia :D
 
Been doing various selling/trading/auctioning through USP for rough guess of 7 years now and never lost a package. Just give it time. THough all other suggestions(I esp. prefer the tape over address one, always use it) are all good too.
 
Originally posted by Klesk
Nope, mail in Hawaii is handled by the U.S. Postal Service, just like anywhere else in the U.S.

Notdos: I'm not sure if you read my post above, but did you ship through a mailing service, like Mailboxes, etc? Or did you take the knife to the Post Office yourself?
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I always take them to the po myself.
 
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