Posted on 06/29/2018 12:06:59 PM PDT by pabianice
Earlier this week I mailed some important documents Priority Mail- with tracking. It has vanished. I ran the tracking number and there is no record of it. I personally delivered it to the Post Office and it is gone. Now I have to get copies of the missing documents and mail them again. This time UPS or FEDEX.
Has anyone else had this experience with the USPS? What good is the USPS?
I’ve had very good luck mailing things with tracking numbers via the USPS. Of course, I wasn’t (disguised, in cash and fake-return-addressedly) mailing pound boxes of fecal matter to my congress critter, either.
I can’t say I haven’t been tempted.
If the package disappeared today, it may be due to weather disruptions. It may show up tomorrow. Even FedEx sent an announcement today:
“FedEx Express experienced flight and sort disruptions at the Memphis hub last night due to severe thunderstorms. Potential delays are possible for package deliveries across the U.S. . . .”
It is not unusual for a Priority Mail package not to have tracking until it is delivered. Depending upon where it was shipped, it can take up to a week at least. I’ve had Priority Mail that showed up after a month of no tracking. It usually gets there, but the reliability is not very good for anything that is time sensitive or mission critical.
To do this, you’ll need your receipt. This will include not only the tracking number, but the transaction number, which is quite long.
Meant to also say: You'll also need the receipt because it shows the exact date and time of the transaction, which is information the clerk will need to look it up.
I sort of like making fun of the Post Office but I was just thinking that I have never had a package lost or damaged using them.
I mailed a package last Monday to my Grandkids in Oklahoma. This was from Florida. My receipt said it would get there Wednesday and it did.
I have an Ebay seller account and probably 20% of my income. I know how this works..
NEVER GO TO THE POST OFFICE
NEVER GO TO THE POST OFFICE
NEVER GO TO THE POST OFFICE
ALWAYS open a USPS account. It’s cheaper—way way cheaper. It’s either you are looking at the tracking number all wrong. There is no way they dont know where the tracking number is and ALWAYS starts with 9. The tracking number is ALWAYS on the receipt and they will even show it you..(I know I said nEVER GO THE POST OFFICE but I sell online)
It’s where your missing sock went ... the second ring of Saturn.
In addition, I sell not only on Ebay but Amazon too for the past 15 years. I know every trick, which envelope to use at which city/state at a fraction of the cost.
I never have had any trouble with Priority Mail, and have used it so ship lots of quite valuable stuff. It is my preferred method of shipping.
But then, the Post Office I use, we all know each other by name and run into each other in the grocery store and etc. And it is a conservative area and people take pride in doing a good job.
However, I know that in other areas Postal Workers often have the “I’m a quasi-government employee and can’t be fired” attitude and are very careless about their jobs.
If you are certain that you entered the tracking number correctly, and there is no record of it, then 90% certain that the clerk that you dealt with at your local post office is to blame, didn’t scan it in when you mailed it, and who knows what happened from there. There is a 5% chance that it was merely a computer glitch and will eventually arrive where it belongs ... And a 5% chance that it was something else.
If you can’t get satisfaction from your local Postal Office then contact the Postmaster Generals office and lodge a formal written complaint. That should build a fire under someones arse at the Post Office.
I always send stuff out Priority/Flat Rate because it comes with $50 insurance and tracking. Not sure about whether documents are insurable, but it should state on the receipt if the package was insured. Did they run the numbers at the post office to check the tracking info? When I used to sell stuff on eBay, you had to wait a specific period of time before you could file a claim on the package. I’ve also had problems with the UPS website retrieving the info. Sometimes I have to put the numbers in several times before it will finally give me the tracking info. You also have to make sure that you put a space between each group of 4 numbers when you enter it in the tracking box.
Tell them you want to speak to the Post Master in charge of the office.
We have a store that ships through USPS - FEDEX - UPS and DHL. Let me tell you that they all lose stuff on occasion. It does not happen often but it happens.
There is no insurance on documents.
Please don’t blame the entire USPS for this problem. There are many people working very hard every day...and often going out of their way to serve the customers in their area. Ask your postmaster at your post office to help you.
I have had very bad experiences with all three. UPS managed to misdirect a $1,500 hard drive (4GB full-height 5 1/4” SCSI, expensive at the time) 3,000 miles to Milpitas, CA instead of Ellington, CT. They also tried to show a signature for a DIFFERENT package to get off the hook for paying. FedEx once mis-directed an overnight check to a shopping mall in Poughkeepsie, NY instead of the residence that it was addressed to. For many things, USPS Priority Mail is the best value, certainly for in between stuff or stuff going to a P.O. Box. You might be surprised how much more UPS charges to send stuff to remote locations in Wyoming, for instance.
All three carriers have their uses.
I use USPS Priority Mail all the time. Not one problem for me.
Kinda-sorta. I've seen claims paid for them when the costumer could document the cost of reconstructing them. This is typically not the case, of course.
What a BS post.
If you took it to the P.O. and handed to a clerk they would have scanned it and handed you a receipt. It would not generate a receipt if it was not scanned. It’s kind of idiot proof.
So, you should change your story to the truth, or delete it. Because what you say happened, didn’t.
(You probably took it to the P.O. and dropped it in the wrong box outside. If you want to delay your package, that is how they are delayed.
Have you checked with the recipient?
Chances are very good it’s where you sent it. But no one signed for it.
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