USPS LOST the CVA KENTUCKY!!

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Frontstuffer070

Frontstuffer070

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Well......SMH!! I shipped the CVA 45 Kentucky to a fellow member here Feb 28. There was no movement March 4. I submitted a help ticket and a Postmaster from The recipients Home city replied to me and advised that the Package didn't look to have ever left Columbia SC. He said he would send an Email to Columbia and for me to file a missing mail ticket, which I have this afternoon. I guess I'll wait to see what is to come of it now. They say that IF its found it will be forwarded to the Addressee. Ya'll be careful, USPS seems to be on the struggle bus now days. The next one I sell will go with another carrier for sure. I just feel awful for my buyer.
 
Don't give up hope yet. I bought a RN boarding axe from a seller in Scotland. it arrived in US, went thru customs, made it to the regional USPS sorting center (30 miles from me) where it was "lost" for 16 days. Local PO (one employee) called around & two days later, it arrived in good shape. Whew!
 
Frontstuffer070 said:
Well......SMH!! I shipped the CVA 45 Kentucky to a fellow member here Feb 28. There was no movement March 4. I submitted a help ticket and a Postmaster from The recipients Home city replied to me and advised that the Package didn't look to have ever left Columbia SC. He said he would send an Email to Columbia and for me to file a missing mail ticket, which I have this afternoon. I guess I'll wait to see what is to come of it now. They say that IF its found it will be forwarded to the Addressee. Ya'll be careful, USPS seems to be on the struggle bus now days. The next one I sell will go with another carrier for sure. I just feel awful for my buyer.
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Stories like this give me anxiety every time I ship something thru USPS. I do a good bit of shipping using our local post office due to the fact I live in somewhat of a geographical oddity where everything is an hour away from me. It’s a hellacious shame that all of us are afraid to use our federal postal service either because of moronic incompetence or outright dishonesty by certain individuals inside that agency. I haven’t been burned really bad as yet but it does seem like things are getting worse and worse every month. We should expect and deserve better. I hope the postal service gets privatized to where this problem can be handled properly.
 
Frontstuffer070 said:
Well......SMH!! I shipped the CVA 45 Kentucky to a fellow member here Feb 28. There was no movement March 4. I submitted a help ticket and a Postmaster from The recipients Home city replied to me and advised that the Package didn't look to have ever left Columbia SC. He said he would send an Email to Columbia and for me to file a missing mail ticket, which I have this afternoon. I guess I'll wait to see what is to come of it now. They say that IF its found it will be forwarded to the Addressee. Ya'll be careful, USPS seems to be on the struggle bus now days. The next one I sell will go with another carrier for sure. I just feel awful for my buyer.
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My current Sergeant's Carbine is a replacement. I ordered the first one, and all that showed up was the lock, in its own box. After alerting the Canadian Postal Service (international order btw), they started a serious investigation, and low and behold the box with the rest of the musket was found. The musket was broken in half at the stock-wrist. The local postmaster tried to say it came to them that way, but I showed how the black rubber mark on the box exterior matched the rear bumper on a USPS letter-carrier truck, when you leaned the box against a wall, like at a loading dock. (The Canadian vehicles were much different.) I told the postmaster, either one of your yahoos backed into the box by accident, and then squirreled the box away, OR they did a five-finger-discount, and got upset when the investigation exploded, and broke the musket on purpose before delivery, due to spite.

Let's hope yours isn't missing from a five-finger-discount.

LD
 
I shipped a modern rifle to a buyer in GA recently, having learned my lesson about Ground Advantage,,, I shipped this one Priority mail, tracking said 3 days from WA to GA. Well that was obviously very optimistic. Left my local PO on the 3rd, sat in Seattle, ( another bad sticky point ), for 4 days, finally left, it said, no outgoing scan.

I tried to start a "wheres my package" type search, the lowest way, but the USPS site would not allow it, so filed a report to the USPS about that, then I gave up on trying again.

But lo and behold, today I checked early and the rifle has made it to Atlanta early today, a mere half hour from final destination, but has not moved so far today. I am hopeful it gets delivered tomorrow, which would be 11 days.

I had a couple months ago shipped to moderns to Alabama to two different buyers in different cities. Ground Advantage. Both got lost, filed lost mail for both, and within a week, both were found and delivered.
I have never seen USPS this fouled up.
 
Couple of years ago I bought a custom .45 fullstock rifle from Oregon. Shipped PO, tracking number got stuck on 3rd day.
weeks later, seller and his postmaster couldn't find it, he refunded my money. I bought another rifle locally. 3 MONTHS later the box landed on my porch. I called seller and paid again. Where was that 5-foot-long box for 3 months??? we will never know
 
CVS has UPS drop and ship. You create the label, CVS will scan and text you tracking information that you can follow.

And I'll tell you guys again you don't walk through the door and tell the clerk you got a gun in the box!
You don't put any information on the outside that there's a gun inside.
Most of the time when I ship to another FFL, I don't put the name of the shop on the label. I put the owner's name & the initials of the shop
 
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loflyr55 said:
Avoid USPS if there is any chance of it passing NEAR Georgia.
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And Indianapolis too. That place is like a black hole. Last 3 things I ordered that had to go through there sat for over a week until finally moving on. My favorite recent experience was with a barrel I ordered. Finally left Indy after a week and then started "looping", their word not mine, meaning it went through the same three sorting centers three times, one 2 miles from my house, before a call finally got it delivered. I don't know what's going on with the USPS but it ain't good.
 


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