USPS and Track of the Wolf

[Grenadier1758]

This lost in the mail is nothing new.

Back in about 1980, I was living in Northwest Florida. The local gun store had bid on and won the bid a.on a lot of lost in shipping muzzle loader parts. Many barrels and some locks. They were selling the CVA barrels pretty well, but they had several off brand barrels. I ended up with about 6 "off brand" barrels for about $150. 1 Bill Large 40 called, a Getz 50 cal tapered radius groove, Ed Rayl 36 cal with false muzzle, and three unmarked barrels, a 50, a 58 and a 45 1 1/8" barrel. I sold the Bill Large barrel for $150, so I got the lot for free. Now the breech plug for the unmarked barrel costs more than I paid for the barrel.

I should have bought one of the CVA flint barrels and one of the locks.

 

[Celticstoneman]

You mean the clown that got it made no attempt to get your package to you? Didn't put it back out for the mailman? Sounds like it was delivered to thief to begin with. Glad you got it back.

I ordered my better half a down vest.It was shipped via Amazon with tracking.The day came when it was marked delivered. No package at our casa. I immediately called the PO and raised hell. This was not our first rodeo with them so the post master went out right away to find it. Two days later the vest turned up on the back of the idiot that knew it was not his to wear.

 

[cvco]

USPS does indeed have a warehouse filled with things they have lost. Periodically they sell it as unclaimed property.

We shipped to a customer and it got to be quite late on delivery. We worked on tracking with them and found out our package got chewed up in a sorting machine in the recipients city, right before intended delivery. So they shipped the package and contents to their "lost" facility which is in Georgia and serves the whole country. We made a claim to find and deliver the mess. Three months later, they said they lost the "lost' package and would now close the case -- refusing to take any financial responsibility. We had to fully refund the customer.

 

[cvco]

Its pretty hard to find and hire good people. I always had the best luck with UPS and USPS simply because they were old drivers on the route for more than 20 years and knew everyone on their routes. Both the UPS and USPS drivers had hearts of gold and would go out of their way to take care of you and the packages. They both retired recently, replaced with kids who are never the same drivers each time. They throw the packages and keep driving, they dont ask for sigs when they are supposed to, and leave packages right on the road in plain sight for porch pirates. These days, we have to follow tracking online and stand outside and wait for them, even if its a long time. No trust anymore, no nothing. Monsters.

 

[Bullit]

I have no faith in the USPS at all. About a year ago I had a .40 cal mould sent from Arizona to here in Nashville TN. After about 2 weeks it finally arrived here in Nashville at the main hub. I was so excited. I kept waiting for it to arrive, it never did. After about 4 or 5 days of waiting for it to get across town I finally tracked it again, only to find out it was up in North Dakota, WTF. It took another week to get back down to the main office in Nashville and two more days to get to my house.
On Jan 4th of this year I mailed off my payment to Bank of America by way of my mailbox. The payment wasn't due till the 16th. Around the 18th I was going to order something and my card was declined, so I ran it through one more time, declined. Called BOA and they never received my payment so declined my card, charged me a late fee, and added interest. First time EVER for being late on a payment. So after several times checking over the next two weeks to see if my check cleared the bank, I had to write a check on Feb 1 to cover both months (Dec. and Jan.), plus late fee and interest. And I paid $18 to have that sent priority and tracked. Then low and behold, on the 11th of Feb, my first check makes it to BOA and they cash that too. Now they have an extra $400+ and haven't heard a word from them. All because of the good ole USPS incompetence. So I'm pretty much done with USPS and am done for sure with BOA. Good name for Bank of America. They get a stranglehold on a person and choke the life out of them, just like a BOA constrictor.

 

[Boston Bill]

I have no faith in the USPS at all. About a year ago I had a .40 cal mould sent from Arizona to here in Nashville TN. After about 2 weeks it finally arrived here in Nashville at the main hub. I was so excited. I kept waiting for it to arrive, it never did. After about 4 or 5 days of waiting for it to get across town I finally tracked it again, only to find out it was up in North Dakota, WTF. It took another week to get back down to the main office in Nashville and two more days to get to my house.
On Jan 4th of this year I mailed off my payment to Bank of America by way of my mailbox. The payment wasn't due till the 16th. Around the 18th I was going to order something and my card was declined, so I ran it through one more time, declined. Called BOA and they never received my payment so declined my card, charged me a late fee, and added interest. First time EVER for being late on a payment. So after several times checking over the next two weeks to see if my check cleared the bank, I had to write a check on Feb 1 to cover both months (Dec. and Jan.), plus late fee and interest. And I paid $18 to have that sent priority and tracked. Then low and behold, on the 11th of Feb, my first check makes it to BOA and they cash that too. Now they have an extra $400+ and haven't heard a word from them. All because of the good ole USPS incompetence. So I'm pretty much done with USPS and am done for sure with BOA. Good name for Bank of America. They get a stranglehold on a person and choke the life out of them, just like a BOA constrictor.

And what happened to your credit card payment is why I use bill pay online. Anyway I can not use a stamp, that is the route I take.

 

[GoodRabbitPilgrim]

We have a different issue here in Australia, if you're not home for items that require a signature they'll leave a "sorry we missed you" ticket with the reason. Our house is set back maybe 50 yards from the road, last year I saw the delivery driver pull into the driveway and put something into the mailbox from my lounge. Went out there and it was a sorry we missed you note and the reason was knocked at the door no answer.

Or even better, got pulled up by the police couple of years ago and told I didn't have my car registered. Long story short, the letter for my renewal got lost in the mail, contacted the state department handling registration they said it happens but it's not their fault. Copper also told me I should know when rego is due off the top of my head without needing a renewal letter and stuck me with a $700 fine.

And my wife just called 20 mins ago saying the govt sent us a letter to explain why we didn't vote otherwise we'll receive a fine. The fine will be higher if they don't find the excuse satisfactory. We have reservations about how they'll accept the "it was obviously lost in the mail" one despite it being fine on their end.

 

[cvco]

And yet, the way things are going, we may well find ourselves increasingly dependent on USPS to communicate with each other as cancel culture shifts up. Everyone is a target for cancellation now. I wouldnt throw away your stamps yet, in fact stock up. In 2020, the headline news was "No toilet paper!" Next headline was "No ammo! What gives?" This will be followed by, "I cant find envelopes anywhere!"

 

[cvco]

We are all friends here and i mean no bad towards anyone but its a little hard to be sympathetic towards lost mail when important things are sent at the lowest possible level of service -- a stamp. Approaching deadlines, important stuff, that goes by Certified or Registered or even FedEx. While any of those can still be lost, its pretty rare. If I had a payment due in two days that I couldnt walk in personally or do online, id be at the costlier service to increase the chance of success. Almost any price is worth not having to fight credit score dings and late payment fees.

 

[sussexmuzllodr]

Recently I had a neighbor that had a computer left curbside at their rural mailbox. My Buddy noticed a plastic clear bag sticking out of a snowbank. The homeowner had no idea that it had been delivered. In the end it got to where it had to be.

 

[Sam squanch]

Fed ex guy rolled up one day. Got out of the van. Reeked of beer, empty can fell out of the van.

 

[Sam squanch]

One delivery guy rolled up to the house reeking of beer.....

 

[Marshhawk]

Had same issue with BOA. Got hit with late payment, card declined. The whole bit. Be paying them online from now on, too. Ordering parts, bullets and such is done with a dash of hope. Maybe they can fix the USPS, but a lot will have to be undone. It never was meant to make a profit.

 

[Hawken]

One delivery guy rolled up to the house reeking of beer.....

And you know what? So long as the mail goes through, so what? So long as people aren't impaired I couldn't care less. A cold beer on a hot day is refreshing. When I was stationed "over there", the unions have negotiated into their contract that they can drink two (2) beers at lunch. It is legal. Now, they WILL nail your ass to the wall if you drive drunk.

One of the big problems in America is everything is always presented as an either/or all or nothing proposition. We went from people smoking in elevators and hospital rooms to "we'll throw yer ass in jail for smoking outside" with astonishing rapidity.

 

[SOLANCO]

And you know what? So long as the mail goes through, so what? So long as people aren't impaired I couldn't care less. A cold beer on a hot day is refreshing. When I was stationed "over there", the unions have negotiated into their contract that they can drink two (2) beers at lunch. It is legal. Now, they WILL nail your ass to the wall if you drive drunk.

One of the big problems in America is everything is always presented as an either/or all or nothing proposition. We went from people smoking in elevators and hospital rooms to "we'll throw yer ass in jail for smoking outside" with astonishing rapidity.

NambyPambyism, nimbyism, naysayers, and nitwits are at the throttle. They are all nice people by the old English definition of nice, which was slow, stupid, or mildly impaired.

 

[SOLANCO]

Same thing happened to me a while back. Ordered some 8" steel plates and all I got from USPS was an empty box delivered to my door.

Not sure how 25lbs of steel plates gets "lost", but it did.

Filed a claim with USPS. Got most of my money back from them (minus shipping costs).

They must have a warehouse full of stuff somewhere of items they "lose".

Or a small warehouse and lots of employees with "free stuff".

 

[MiddleJohn]

So a month back I needed to order on line some W2, W3, 1099 and 943 forms from IRS for employees.
They came in about a week but by UPS not by the governments' USPS service.
Even the govt. doesn't trust our postal service to get it done right!

 

[Zonie]

When this thread started, it was about the USPS and Track of the Wolf.
Since TOTW is a supplier of stuff for muzzleloading, the thread fit into the "General Muzzleloading" area. It has grown into a lot of talk about the mail but no talk about muzzleloading so, I'm going to close it.