2 years ago I bought a sharps rifle out of California. It disappeared as soon as USPS picked it up, never to be seen again. took an act of congress to get my insurance money from usps. they denied my claim 3 times for BS reasons. my post master told me to call in a complaint to the governers office after doing that i had a check and apology letter from them in short order. just received my kodiak double rifle today that was shipped 3 day priority on the 7th. but thankful to have it and in one peice!
USPS LOST the CVA KENTUCKY!!
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Praise the Lord its moving and according to tracking has arrived in the destination city.
Moving Through Network
Departed USPS Regional Facility
KANSAS CITY MO DISTRIBUTION CENTER
March 14, 2025, 4:10 pm
Arrived at USPS Facility
TOPEKA, KS 66618
March 14, 2025, 10:32 am
In Transit to Next Facility
March 13, 2025
Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility
KANSAS CITY MO DISTRIBUTION CENTER
March 12, 2025, 3:07 pm
Missing Mail Search Request Initiated, Missing Mail Search Request ID MRC 25 2053 1437
March 12, 2025, 1:18 pm
Arrived at USPS Regional Origin Facility
COLUMBIA SC PROCESSING CENTER
February 28, 2025, 11:15 pm
Departed Post Office
PELION, SC 29123
February 28, 2025, 4:12 pm
Moving Through Network
Departed USPS Regional Facility
KANSAS CITY MO DISTRIBUTION CENTER
March 14, 2025, 4:10 pm
Arrived at USPS Facility
TOPEKA, KS 66618
March 14, 2025, 10:32 am
In Transit to Next Facility
March 13, 2025
Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility
KANSAS CITY MO DISTRIBUTION CENTER
March 12, 2025, 3:07 pm
Missing Mail Search Request Initiated, Missing Mail Search Request ID MRC 25 2053 1437
March 12, 2025, 1:18 pm
Arrived at USPS Regional Origin Facility
COLUMBIA SC PROCESSING CENTER
February 28, 2025, 11:15 pm
Departed Post Office
PELION, SC 29123
February 28, 2025, 4:12 pm
Wait a minute, WHY in the WORLD is it leaving Kansas City MO.?? It's going to Topeka! SMH, OH GOOD GRIEF, I could have driven the thing to Kansas myself by now. NEVER AGAIN USPS, NEVER!
Thank you! Yeah that rifle is SO SO sweet! I'm on pins and needles. IF it makes it to him, I hope she is in one piece. Would be such a shame for it to have endured the wrath of those who don't care.
Its back in Topeka! It was there, then took a ride to Kansas City, now its back in Topeka! Let's hope it stays there and I don't wake up tomorrow and its in Tucson or some crazy crap.
I don't have a problem with the USPS. If there is a problem, at least I can call or go to the PO and the people there help.
Try that with UPS or Fed-Ex. Computer asks everything but what you want.
Louis DeJoy did a lot to screw up the PO. Had sorting machines that worked great and were irreplaceable, taken out and
destroyed for scrap. He's supposed to be resigning but before he goes, he has one more kick in the USPS tenders.
He wants FELON MUSK to help himself and see how much he can scrape out of the bottom of the PO, to help pay for the
Government contracts he is writing for himself.
Nope, I like the USPS.
Try that with UPS or Fed-Ex. Computer asks everything but what you want.
Louis DeJoy did a lot to screw up the PO. Had sorting machines that worked great and were irreplaceable, taken out and
destroyed for scrap. He's supposed to be resigning but before he goes, he has one more kick in the USPS tenders.
He wants FELON MUSK to help himself and see how much he can scrape out of the bottom of the PO, to help pay for the
Government contracts he is writing for himself.
Nope, I like the USPS.
Chief Snorkel
32 Cal
If I send a postcard to my next door neighbor, the PO sends it to a sorting center 100 miles away. Maybe if they do away with nonsense, the 10,000 workers won't be missed.
I’ll be amazed if it actually arrives undamaged.
They sure are, I shipped a money order usps this week express to a member Monday. It's now Saturday and hasn't left the city i dropped it in. Guy at post office said we could do this and that but it would take a week or more to turn it around. If i wanted to cancel the money order and buy a new and reship it would take 30days to get money back. So stuck in limbo. He said it's like that now all over the usps because people don't want to work, won't come to work.
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Insane isn’t it? I still have no idea where the heck my package is that I mailed this past Monday. From what I’m reading and understanding here it certainly appears there is a problem that is not just a localized brain-fart of the system. Absolutely unacceptable!
I have had very few problems with USPS, UPS, FedEx, etc. Most stuff has arrived on time and in good condition.
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Well, you have definitely been blessed.
Used to be that a Civil Servant had a pretty high standard to meet in order to hold the position. I guess things have changed and those changes are beginning to affect more and more people.
Used to be that a Civil Servant had a pretty high standard to meet in order to hold the position. I guess things have changed and those changes are beginning to affect more and more people.
I remember delivering a truck load of books to a large distribution center. Finally got backed in to a door and went up on the platform. I saw a worker go up to the boss and complain that one of his guys was sleeping under a pile of mail bags. The boss said to ignore it, as he made the quota! I couldn't believe my ears.
I remember as a youngster trying to get a job at the postal service was a real challenge so I joined the military instead and retired from that. Now I get post cards wanting to know if I want a postal service job. What a joke things are getting to be. The rifle in question finally did show up today, good thing it was double boxed.
I'm glad it made it in one piece.
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On 02/18 I sent my business tax return certified via USPS. Due date is 3/15 and after that it's a $440 penalty/month plus interest.
USPS estimated 3-5 days. Fine. -- plenty of time. On 2/26 it was in Milwaukee and then tracking said "In the system moving to next destination..."
Said that for several days. Inquiry at USPS said same thing. Item needs to be missing for >30 days to "put a tracker on it" ....well past the due date with fines and interest accumulating. I was told "...don't worry, it will get there...." On time? "Maybe"
Sent out another set of returns via FedEx -- more money but got there in 3 days. The USPS package did get there on 3/12....
(ps -- I can't use E-File as IRS requires a signature form downloaded, signed, and uploaded to accept E-File return -- I am unable to do the scan and upload part so stuck with non-E-File method)
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Sanglier
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The 30 days you must wait before submitting a tracking request is roughly the same amount of time they take to decide that your parcel is "unclaimed" and is now THEIR property to dispose of as they see fit, typically in the form of auctions. I bought an item twice from eBay because of this.
The item was shipped by a seller from Slovakia, and stopped having tracking updates after clearing New York customs 10 days later. Seller was not able to initiate tracking until the parcel had disappeared for a month, by which point I received the detached shipping label from the original parcel, with a hand-scribbled note explaining that it was found by itself at a USPS sorting hub here in California. There was no way of knowing at which point during the many transfers between NY and CA this label and its parcel parted company.
As I now had proof that the parcel was missing, I was able to file a "missing parcel inquiry" at my end online, which entitled me to a monthly form letter informing me that they were "still working very hard looking for the parcel".
My local post master tried to put me directly in touch with the sorting facility that sent me the disembodied shipping label, but they told her they are not allowed to talk to non-employees.
My post master also revealed that label-less parcels are deemed "unclaimed" and shipped to a warehouse in Georgia for disposal. If no one came forward to claim and prove ownership for 30 days, the orphaned parcel would be auctioned off or destroyed. My missing parcel inquiry contained detailed item descriptions and the listing photos from eBay, but since the item was inside a box, which was presumably still intact, it was very unlikely that anyone at the Georgia warehouse would have opened up all the label-less boxes to look for it before it's bundled up for auction.
As it were, my missing item showed up on eBay right around the time (according to its listing date) I was running around in circles with USPS looking for it, though I didn't realize this until I accidentally came across the second listing 4 months later, as it never occurred to me that this was a possible outcome. The seller was in Tennessee, and listed many things that could have come from government auctions, though I have no way of knowing this for certain and wasn't going to ask him. His starting price was way high, as he probably had no idea what the item was worth; which was why it was still there 4 months later.
I updated my Missing Parcel Inquiry with links to this eBay listing, showing that it's the exact same item (as it happens to have a serial number, visible in both sets of listing photos), hoping that USPS could give me some explanation as to how my item went from their sorting center to a seller in Tennessee, with only the shipping label coming to me.
It had zero effect on their search or their communication. I continued to receive the "we are still working very hard looking for your package" form letter for two more months, fulfilling the six month obligation specified in their regulatory requirement, ending with a final letter saying exactly what I had come to expect: "Sorry, we can't find your package in spite of our best efforts. Have a nice life".
Eight months after the Tennessee seller put the item up for sale again, his asking price was reduced to just slightly more than what I had paid the Slovakian seller 10 months earlier; so I bought the item, again; this time without undue drama. The item was noticeably more scuffed up than it was in the original Slovakian listing photos, so there was some physical trauma involved along the way.
The lesson I took from this: Never count on a shipping label taped to the box - Write the recipient and destination address directly on the box, even when a shipping label is used!!
The item was shipped by a seller from Slovakia, and stopped having tracking updates after clearing New York customs 10 days later. Seller was not able to initiate tracking until the parcel had disappeared for a month, by which point I received the detached shipping label from the original parcel, with a hand-scribbled note explaining that it was found by itself at a USPS sorting hub here in California. There was no way of knowing at which point during the many transfers between NY and CA this label and its parcel parted company.
As I now had proof that the parcel was missing, I was able to file a "missing parcel inquiry" at my end online, which entitled me to a monthly form letter informing me that they were "still working very hard looking for the parcel".
My local post master tried to put me directly in touch with the sorting facility that sent me the disembodied shipping label, but they told her they are not allowed to talk to non-employees.
My post master also revealed that label-less parcels are deemed "unclaimed" and shipped to a warehouse in Georgia for disposal. If no one came forward to claim and prove ownership for 30 days, the orphaned parcel would be auctioned off or destroyed. My missing parcel inquiry contained detailed item descriptions and the listing photos from eBay, but since the item was inside a box, which was presumably still intact, it was very unlikely that anyone at the Georgia warehouse would have opened up all the label-less boxes to look for it before it's bundled up for auction.
As it were, my missing item showed up on eBay right around the time (according to its listing date) I was running around in circles with USPS looking for it, though I didn't realize this until I accidentally came across the second listing 4 months later, as it never occurred to me that this was a possible outcome. The seller was in Tennessee, and listed many things that could have come from government auctions, though I have no way of knowing this for certain and wasn't going to ask him. His starting price was way high, as he probably had no idea what the item was worth; which was why it was still there 4 months later.
I updated my Missing Parcel Inquiry with links to this eBay listing, showing that it's the exact same item (as it happens to have a serial number, visible in both sets of listing photos), hoping that USPS could give me some explanation as to how my item went from their sorting center to a seller in Tennessee, with only the shipping label coming to me.
It had zero effect on their search or their communication. I continued to receive the "we are still working very hard looking for your package" form letter for two more months, fulfilling the six month obligation specified in their regulatory requirement, ending with a final letter saying exactly what I had come to expect: "Sorry, we can't find your package in spite of our best efforts. Have a nice life".
Eight months after the Tennessee seller put the item up for sale again, his asking price was reduced to just slightly more than what I had paid the Slovakian seller 10 months earlier; so I bought the item, again; this time without undue drama. The item was noticeably more scuffed up than it was in the original Slovakian listing photos, so there was some physical trauma involved along the way.
The lesson I took from this: Never count on a shipping label taped to the box - Write the recipient and destination address directly on the box, even when a shipping label is used!!
