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 :confused:

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.

I don't care for that style of box - they almost always arrive bent, but so far I've been lucky and nothing broken inside. Cylinders are much better. A partial cure for long rectangular boxes is to insert some extra-thick strips of cardboard inside and to pack the peanuts in - I always mention this to sellers when purchasing pool cues, as some of them like to construct their own boxes by taping two flimsy rectangular ones together.

I also once received a bat from a major auction house that had the same type of box yours came in, bent the same way. AND it had minimal packing. If I ever win another bat from them, they will get my advance warning.

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.

Who wouldn't. As a citizen ill take the reduced rates.

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

Neither of them are required to fully fund their pension plans and retiree health benefits up front. That would change their bottom line a bit.

http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/fin...2010_4_002.htm

Of course, the upside is that the prefunding is putting a decent dent in their unfunded liabilities, which we'd end up paying for in the long run anyway, especially if they failed.

It's all pretty complex.

Some postal administrations have demonetized their stamps rather than carry them on the books as liabilities. (They're essentially receipts for a service that can be used to pay for that service at some future date. So many of them know the total dollar value of the ones that haven't been used. ) The USPS has only demonetized or disallowed a few stamps. For the regular issue stuff, everything issued after 1861 can still be used as postage. Some but not all of the stamps for particular services can still be used.

Steve B

Ouch!

It must be "WE CARE"WEEK AT THE POST OFFICE!
I received the same surprise yesterday!
Although my item was not scarce. Sorry too hear that Leon!

agreed!

Nice Larry. You are now officially in the club.

I got a CleanSweep invoice in the mail yesterday, mailed 2 months ago. It looked like it had been through each storm since then. We have had about 1-2 feet of rain in the last 2 months....

I was about to send another t shirt to a member who didn't get one for quite sometime, yesterday, when he told me he finally received it. The USPS is having a few more issues than normal, I think.