Michael Potter is irresponsible

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That sums it up; Signature Confirmation is the best way to go.
Again, I hope this all works out.
 
STR said:
Insurance is an option IMO. Delivery confirm does nothing but confirm it was delivered, not necessarily to the correct spot either, just that it was delivered to someone somewhere. Basically its worthless.

Signature confirmation is your best bet and it won't double your cost to ship it and you can use signature confirm when you use first class mail so save yourself the postage for Priority and mail that way. You still self insure using it though.

On another topic. I have a friend that has an insurance claim with the post office two years old and counting and never seen a dime. If this is any indication of what to expect then don't count on the Government coming through on that without jumping through some hoops and don't be surprised if they tell you because it was a knife that it voids insurance. Come to think of it I don't know a single person that has received any insurance money from the USPS one time for a claim. Surely its been done though.


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I purchased a Stingray leather hide from a small retailer online, and had the same issue. It was delivered with D/C and insurance, and the delivery was confirmed, but there was no package at my door. After about a week, the issue was resolved, the retailer was reimbursed, and my package was redelivered successfully.

I'm on Esav and Couger's side on this one. I feel Mr. Potter is expressly responsible, as by electing not to insure a package of someone ELSE's goods, he elected to cover them himself in the event of a loss. I would be livid if I were you. :mad:

Best of luck brother. :(
 
Apebrains said:
I'm on Esav and Couger's side on this one. I feel Mr. Potter is expressly responsible, as by electing not to insure a package of someone ELSE's goods, he elected to cover them himself in the event of a loss. I would be livid if I were you. :mad:

Best of luck brother. :(
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+1 to all you said........ :thumbup: :)
 
TheBleedingEdge said:
The issue here is not delivery confirmation - it's SIGNATURE confirmation. There's a difference.

Without signature confirmation, the package was left on my doorstep unattended while I was away at work. If he had covered it with signature confirmation, the post office would have held it until I came to pick it up and it would not have been stolen off my doorstep.

I'm upset at his carelessness, and his suggestion that I was somehow unreasonable for thinking that he would handle my property responsibly.
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actually, it was delivered and left on someone's doorstep.
 
^^^ That's the thing. A package sitting alone is an accident, or theft, waiting to happen.
 
Even signature confirmation fails at times because a lot of whether it works or not is up to the mail man or woman delivering things and where they work. For example I can mail a package to my best friend in Chicago either insured or with signature confirm where you would think its mandatory that someone sign for the package and his post man NEVER makes anyone sign for anything I mail this way. I've reported it several times to no avail. He'll drop it in the box in the stairwell of my friends condo and go and he has done this so many times that Harry told me finally that I may as well stop paying the extra for insurance or sig. confirm because in the city they just ignore it. Apparently the USPS is too busy in some of the major cities to be standing outside a door waiting for a signature when someone pays for it trying to be sure of delivery.

Also, this stuff about delivery confirm telling you where the package went is in error. You may find out the hard way sooner or later that this is not the case. As I said in my first post in BleedingEdge's first thread on this about his knives being stolen I had two items mailed to me, one an Ares Benchmade folder I bought off the forums, the other a book from Amazon. Both the seller of the knife and Amazon said they sent them, and the USPS said when I checked that the packages were delivered and the date.

Fact is my usual mail woman was on vacation and the temp that took her place delivered my packages to the 4006 address parallel with my street dropping them off the next block over and when it was discovered the guy had opened both packages, had used my knife and had my book on the counter in the hall by the front door still with the box it shipped in and had apparently flipped through the pages because he left grease stains from morot oil on the pages on a book with my name on it! My post lady saw it and asked about it and the knife knowing I reported them as missing. He readily admitted oh yeah, they were dropped off here. He gave her some excuse about not getting around to turning them back in and gave them to her. She got them back but a month later or so on the book, after I wrongfully got angry at Amazon as if it was their fault and after Amazon had already replaced the book and a few weeks after I had bought the knife as I recall on the knife.

The seller never forked over anything to me to make up for shipping it with anything other than delivery confirm but he felt bad enough about keeping the knife he got from me in the trade. Still, the offer to get that knife back never came when I didn't get my knife. So no delivery confirm does not tell you where it went or who it went to and for that matter for all it can offer you don't even know if was delivered to the correct city. I would still not know where my packages went unless my post lady had not thought to check that next house over because she knew it had happened before where I got their mail on an occasion or three over the years. DELIVERY CONFIRM is worthless! It only confirms it was dropped off somewhere, sometime, by someone.

STR
 
STR said:
Even signature confirmation fails at times because a lot of whether it works or not is up to the mail man or woman delivering things and where they work.
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If the package had required a signature on delivery, then the stand-in wouldn't have left the package unattended. He would have had to take it back to the post office where it would be held until I picked it up. There's no question.
 
TheBleedingEdge said:
If the package had required a signature on delivery, then the stand-in wouldn't have left the package unattended. He would have had to take it back to the post office where it would be held until I picked it up. There's no question.
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If you say so. I've had occasion where I've paid for signature confirm and never gotten it yet the packages were delivered though and thats what I'm saying. You would think they would leave the typical note letting you know they attempted to deliver it as usual, and I don't deny that is what usually occurs but as I said, I've had instances where that had not happened at all and the packages were left anyways.

STR
 
One thing not covered here or discusses is pay pal. Doesn't pay pal have some kind of coverage also so long as the shipper sends it out to the address in the payment info? Did you pay with pay pal when he was done the work? If so it may be worth checking with them before they say the deadline is passed. Just a thought. I'm not sure how it works for PP cause I've never had to file a claim with them.

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STR said:
One thing not covered here or discusses is pay pal. Doesn't pay pal have some kind of coverage also so long as the shipper sends it out to the address in the payment info? Did you pay with pay pal when he was done the work? If so it may be worth checking with them before they say the deadline is passed. Just a thought. I'm not sure how it works for PP cause I've never had to file a claim with them.

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No. I paid with a check that I sent along with my knives. He has his money, and I don't have my knives.

I don't care how many successful shipments you've made without insurance. Each time you send an expensive package without coverage, you're acting irresponsibly. And without coverage, a theft is bound to come back at you when it does occur.
 
Hello from JJ,
i read you sent some knifes to be customized from Michael Potter. Can you kindly give me his e-mail or thell me how and where to contact him ? I have a strider SNG which i would like him to install some toxic Fibermascus scales on. I ddi try to find ány informations but wasnt successful till now. Hopefully you can help? J.
 
I just wasted 10 minutes reading a four year old thread!!!!

Geesh, time I shall never recoup.....
 
I wrote this prolific post on the need for sellers to insure their wares and then saw the date:eek::eek:

That's 20 minutes of my life wasted worse than a drunken blackout......................
 
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