"We Care" - USPS - My surprise yesterday...

[Leon]

It was around a hundred dollar baseball card and super scarce..The heart break was much more about losing the card than any monies (the seller and I are chatting, no need to discuss it too much here)...I blacked out contact info to protect the innocent .

[HOF Auto Rookies]

Wow


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[Bigdaddy]

Maybe it would have been better to just have put a stamp on the card and sent it as a postcard.

Sorry for your bad luck.

[Jason]

When using the manilla folders instead of bubble mailers you have to tape the the top and bottom. The bottom seal will easily come undone in those sorting machines i.e. just like seen in the scans. Sorry for your loss Leon.

[Bicem]

USPS needs to go away and just let the private sector run the show.

[Luke]

That's awful

[Joshchisox08]

Perhaps the mail-man knows what you get in your bubble wraps now and thought it would be nice to take a souvenir for himself. That really sucks.

[mrkrab]

Originally Posted by Bicem

USPS needs to go away and just let the private sector run the show.

So we can overpay to ship a package and executives can rake millions? No thanks.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by mrkrab

So we can overpay to ship a package and executives can rake millions? No thanks.

I would take the bottom line of Fedex or UPS over the bottom line of the USPS.

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by mrkrab

So we can overpay to ship a package and executives can rake millions? No thanks.

How does $18 billion sound? That's what we pay USPS in taxes, in addition to the $67.8 billion we paid them to ship our packages.

http://fortune.com/2015/03/27/us-postal-service/

https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/po...size-scope.htm

[glchen]

Originally Posted by Jason

When using the manilla folders instead of bubble mailers you have to tape the the top and bottom. The bottom seal will easily come undone in those sorting machines i.e. just like seen in the scans. Sorry for your loss Leon.

+1

[ibuysportsephemera]

As others have stated...this is the fault of the person sending the package. For a $100 card, they could have sprung for a small box that would have cost maybe .50¢ more in mailing cost. A real shame....sorry Leon.

Jeff

[ruth-gehrig]

Yeah that really sucks! Sorry Leon! I was recently sweating a baseball bat tube package that was plastered with "Received in damaged condition". Somehow the tube was cut in half although the bat survived without damage.

Was "Received in damaged condition" and "Received without contents" two different incidences down the assembly line? Is there any surveillance in sorting areas that perhaps reduce theft of package contents do you suppose?

[brewing]

I have some USPS good news (somewhat) to report. I sent a sub to SGC on March 26th, it arrived today. I was a bit concerned because, I cheaped out on insurance and it never takes that long for a package to travel up the east coast.

[toppcat]

I almost feel your pain Leon, we probably get one of those a month, although it's usually a catalog or something worthless.

[Leon]

Here is a quick update that is fortunately not entirely unique. The seller is a stand up guy and said he would make it right and send me another card from the series, which I am/was very appreciative of. I got a snail mail letter with a card in it from him a few days ago. It stated he had originally put the card inside an old envelope that had his pre-printed return address on it. Otherwise it was a blank and unused envelope, with the card in it and stuck inside the, now mauled, mailer above.
Well, he received the blank envelope with the card still in it in his regular mail several (now) days ago. It was delivered with no postage due or anything. Now the original card is back to me and all is well.
I had another situation, similar to this, happen many years ago. That incident is recounted here somewhere in the archives. Fact is stranger than fiction. And props go out to whatever postal employees made this recent card retrieval happen.*The card is undamaged too. "They did good" on this one.

[gnaz01]

I recently had a package delivered to me by USPS 5 days late, was left at my front door in a plastic bag, crushed, soaking wet, and smelled of smoke from a fire, with the standard "We Care" BS on it. From what I surmised, the PO must have had a fire where my box was, and they flooded it with water to put the fire out, and that is how I received it.

BUT the contents were not damaged

[frankbmd]

After giving USPS a bad rap for this, Leon, I think you should be compelled to resort to pigeons in the future.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

After giving USPS a bad rap for this, Leon, I think you should be compelled to resort to pigeons in the future.

Stagecoach.

I try to place blame fairly and also give accolades similarly. It was their fault(or at least liability) their machine messed up the package. And it was their good work that got the card back to the seller the way they did.