Post office bad luck

paulybatz

paulybatz

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http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=49084&highlight=priority


see the above thread but this deserves its own because it is the icing on the cake...

The priority payment did arrive after the 2-3 days, so with that I noted for the person to send it express mail to me, it did arrive overnight...however when I received delivery confirmation in the mail...I called my wife (I had them send it to her office so I wouldnt miss the postal delivery person) and she said the post office had not arrived to the building...now I am freaking because when tracking it online it had her name as the name signed for...obviously it wasnt her...she beat me to calling the post office and they said the delivery person was new and the package was delivered two towns over...and they would get the package back...she said what if you dont get it back, they assured her that they would get it back and get it to her ASAP.

This just happened in the last 50 minutes...I will post when it is resolved...I am very upset and cannot believe the sheer incompetence, and its not just the usps; they all mess up, and its not just in package delivery, everywhere people NOT-doing their jobs and getting paid.

I have had it...Pauly
 
Thank You Larry

Larry, it did--it ends up it wasn't two towns over it was only misdelivered 100 doors down, instead of 540 the delivered it to 450, still someone signed my wife's name...either way just so y'all know, if that happens to you the shipper can file a "form 3533" for a refund for the misdelivery, I think it is only with express shipping....again regardless of carrier always insure and if the cue is over 500, ship overnight. I will be trying the Christmas Present tonight and let you all know about it tomorrow.

iowa_player said:
Good luck Pauly hope everything works out for ya. :)

Happy Holidays
Larry
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How about posting the express tracking number? So we can all see what went on because it might just say it was ADDRESSED to 450:D
 
they honestly should require Identification when they deliver stuff...

my friend owns a pool room about 1998... we were all out side waiting for them to open.. and the ups guy comes in the parking lot and we told them they werent open yet that they open soon.. so he asked me if i would sign for the package and give it to them when they get there... he had no clue i was friends with them or anything.. so i did.. the whole time, i was joking, i should have signed his electronic pad with the name "Tom Cruise" and then went home with my new cues..lol.. i am not that kinda person and i would never do that .. but the oppertunity was there! and nobody would ever have known... he didnt even ask me what my name was!

chris
 
Yep....

Absolutely...this isnt the first time, wont likely be the last...my story ended with a happy ending and an honest person on the other end. But again, always insure for full retail value unless the buyer doesnt want you to, there is no telling what will happen in any point along the trip.
 
cuedoctor said:
How about posting the express tracking number? So we can all see what went on because it might just say it was ADDRESSED to 450:D
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I guess that answered the question of a mis-addressed package,provide the tracking number please:D
 
Pauly,

I do hate to hear all the bad luck you're having with the post office. My good luck is continuing, though.....just received 2 items on-time and A-ok. Also shipped another cue out via express mail guaranteed 2-day delivery to OH that arrived in 1-day (early).

Guess a lot of it just depends on the post office the shipment is being delivered through. It's hard to predict where incompetence might be. The same is also true for any other carrier, though. It ain't a perfect world we live in.....

Happy holidays and hope your luck shapes up.

Sean
 
Thanks Sean!!!

Sean, appreciate it...luckily it was an honest person at the wrong address (and to cuedoctor--I will not post the tracking number but it was addressed correctly, just mis-delivered and mis-read by a likely dyslexic under a great deal of pressure postal service employee)

But I do have another recent story about an item that was addressed wrong, instead of labeling it 161, the shipper labeled it 16...so it was the fault of the shipper, this was for a 2 50.00 gift-cards to the Cheesecake factory...anyway I hadnt received the gift cards and called the woman who said that she had them sent overnight and should have received them last week...well, they were delivered at #16, they hadnt been used so she deactivated them and sent me new ones...all is well...well I was playing in the tournament last night and my wife called me to tell me the Cheesecake factory called, someone tried to use them in a town, which is about 150 miles from where I am, and told them that they got them as a gift...now we live in a college city and around #16 of my street is the college student rental area, likely the person who got them, said we shouldnt use them locally so lets try them when we go home for Christmas break...they did, they lied, another example of horrible people in the world


I want to wish everyone a happy holiday...most of these incidents end up OK...but its nice that we look out for each other here.
 
Well,we all make mistakes but here's a new one for you.I'm sure you have all heard about click and ship offered thru the P.O. You go online and get a shipping label with postage thru your credit card and then just leave it by you mailbox and the carrier picks it up and saves you the hassle of going into the post office.Small problem,it all rely's on the public being honest when they enter the package info,which today means they lie half the time.As you can guess.I work for USPS,and today we recieved three large boxes with click and ship labels saying they weighed 50 LBS each,well I dropped my left nut on the floor when I lifted it up:D and decided to weigh them on the postal scales. The three boxes weighed a total of 287Lbs. Not only did they commit fraud and owe the PO about 160 buck,the boxes were not even allowed because of there weight.Small problem right,well when a commercial jet liner that carries packages in there hull which they do,is told the total amount of the cargo given to them from the post office is say 4 tons and if say its 1000 lbs off this could effect there flight and could cause a disaster.They have weight limits to make sure they can take off and so this small problem could be huge. There are many air plane crashes that the goverment has suspected thing could have been in there cargo hold that was a factor.Avation security is a big problem with the PO and we dont have a fleet to move the mail,fedex and dhl planes carry it under contract with the po. and commercial flights also carry the mail. So we can ***** and moan about the Po all day,but there's two sides to that coin and I got a ton of stories about the great customers we have who try and reuse postage stamp all the time and then act like they didnt know it was a federal offense.:D
 
cuedoctor said:
...about the great customers we have who try and reuse postage stamp all the time and then act like they didnt know it was a federal offense.:D
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Charley,

I've got a great story about reusing stamps. We had a brand new book of them last months that the kids got into (3 y/o boy and 2 y/o girl)....well, they ended up sticking them onto sheets of paper I had by the printer. Anyways, we needed a stamp one day, so I pulled on off and added a bit of glue so that it would stick to the envelope and not come off. Dropped it in the mail and a few days later it comes back.....they wouldn't send the bill payment saying I re-used the stamp. How 'bout them apples ???

Kind of pi$$ed me off a bit, but I had a good laugh about it afterwards.

Sean
 
cueaddicts said:
Charley,

I've got a great story about reusing stamps. We had a brand new book of them last months that the kids got into (3 y/o boy and 2 y/o girl)....well, they ended up sticking them onto sheets of paper I had by the printer. Anyways, we needed a stamp one day, so I pulled on off and added a bit of glue so that it would stick to the envelope and not come off. Dropped it in the mail and a few days later it comes back.....they wouldn't send the bill payment saying I re-used the stamp. How 'bout them apples ???

Kind of pi$$ed me off a bit, but I had a good laugh about it afterwards.

Sean
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Sean,all you had to do was bring them back to the post office if you had a chance and they should replace them if there unused. I know most people dont know that but if for some reason they become damaged the postal service will take them back and replace them. The new automated sorting machines can detect altered stamps now and reject them.
 
cuedoctor said:
Well,we all make mistakes but here's a new one for you.I'm sure you have all heard about click and ship offered thru the P.O. You go online and get a shipping label with postage thru your credit card and then just leave it by you mailbox and the carrier picks it up and saves you the hassle of going into the post office.Small problem,it all rely's on the public being honest when they enter the package info,which today means they lie half the time.As you can guess.I work for USPS,and today we recieved three large boxes with click and ship labels saying they weighed 50 LBS each,well I dropped my left nut on the floor when I lifted it up:D and decided to weigh them on the postal scales. The three boxes weighed a total of 287Lbs. Not only did they commit fraud and owe the PO about 160 buck,the boxes were not even allowed because of there weight.Small problem right,well when a commercial jet liner that carries packages in there hull which they do,is told the total amount of the cargo given to them from the post office is say 4 tons and if say its 1000 lbs off this could effect there flight and could cause a disaster.They have weight limits to make sure they can take off and so this small problem could be huge. There are many air plane crashes that the goverment has suspected thing could have been in there cargo hold that was a factor.Avation security is a big problem with the PO and we dont have a fleet to move the mail,fedex and dhl planes carry it under contract with the po. and commercial flights also carry the mail. So we can ***** and moan about the Po all day,but there's two sides to that coin and I got a ton of stories about the great customers we have who try and reuse postage stamp all the time and then act like they didnt know it was a federal offense.:D
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cuedoctor....Well since you work for the usps i thought i would ask you this question and see if maybe you can give me an answer or help me out in some way.

OK... I went to the local ups store (they also handle mail from the usps and have mail boxes in the store) to ship a package to belgium. because of the cost of UPS to send it (85.00) they told me they could send it thru the usps since they also do work with/for them. I agreed. I filled out a customs shipping form claiming that this package was a gift and had a declaired value of $200.00. Now after about 3 weeks i get an email asking if i sent the package. I reply yes and go to the UPS store to find out what happened. now here is the problem. The customs form i filled out has some type of tracking number on it. When i looked this number up at usps.com it claims that there is no record of such a package. Can you shed any light on this. i can pm you the number i have from the customs label......mike
 
Does anyone know how to track express mail? The tracking # starts with EQ and ends with US. It does not show up on the USPS website. The buyer is claiming they did not receive it. I mailed the cue On Monday for 2 day shipping to CA. Called the USPS and the lady was really rude and I asked to speak to her supervisor and she just hung up on me.
 
feldz23 said:
Does anyone know how to track express mail? The tracking # starts with EQ and ends with US. It does not show up on the USPS website. The buyer is claiming they did not receive it. I mailed the cue On Monday for 2 day shipping to CA. Called the USPS and the lady was really rude and I asked to speak to her supervisor and she just hung up on me.
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I would go back in to your local PO and ask for help with tracking. It should be showing up on their website tracking feature. It's my understanding that information is updated nightly.
 
Well, I just shipped a custom Corbin motorcycle seat that I sold on eBay, AND an Allers cue to 'curly'...both went out Monday USPS Priority Mail/Insured w/Delivery Confirmation. The seat was traveling from Seattle area to TN, and arrived safe and sound on Thursday. The cue was going to OH, and arrived Friday, in perfect condition. Both buyers were very happy, and tickled their items arrived before Christmas. :D This is my typical experience with the USPS...and I will continue to use them for anything save a highend custom cue, and for that it would be FedEx 2nd Day or Overnight.

The only complaint I got from 'curly' was that it took him over a half hour to unwrap the packing material from around the cue...Lol.;)

Lisa
 
That sounds like the insurance tracking #. The insurance # does not track on line. You will need to go to the post office and have them check the # in their system. They can check it you can't. You should have also done a delivery confirmation then you could check and it is only 50 cents more. That is now automatic if you buy postage and insurance at an automated mail center or I think on line.
 
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