I once purchased a raw E90-1 Mathewson and it was sent with insurance, signature confirmation, the works. Our substitute mailman Johnny was an absolute moron who flew down the street, causing myself and my neighbors to exchange mail literally every time he was on the route. The whole entire neighborhood would call and report him - nothing changed.

Well, on the day this Mathewson was delivered to me, it was not delivered on my doorstep, yet a picture was uploaded with a signature. So, in other words, fraud. He signed it, and left it on the front porch of a random house and took a picture to confirm it was delivered. I called the Post Office and was given the run-around with claims that it clearly was delivered. I would ask, does that look like my name that was signed there?

Their reply? Well sir, we dont know what your signature looks like.

Ebay wouldnt do anything because, again, it was signed for and delivered with a picture to confirm it. It didnt matter that I showed them a picture of my front yard which contained nothing that was in the picture.

This was a Friday, so Saturday I saw Nancy, our regular incredible postwoman, and literally ran down the street to catch her and asked her to be on the lookout for this package. She was well aware of Johnny. I showed her the picture of where he left it and she knew she had seen this house. The following Monday, she brought the package to me - saying she could see it from the road. Johnny was fired.

So, if anyone was ever wondering what it takes to get a USPS worker fired - this is it.


And thus ends the entertainment for the evening.


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well kids, the moral of the story is do not be like Johnny

After a real slowdown a couple weeks ago, the last week or so I have been receiving packages much faster (in some cases, faster than normal). Anyone else noticed this?

Yeah. It's very hit or miss. I got a '56 Berra about 3 days early last week, but today had a different card show up 2 days late. As long as they eventually get to you, you can't really complain this time of year. I find that stuff coming from the Northeast and New England tends to have the worst slowdowns for some reason.

We've been hit really hard with labor market problems. It's rough – jobs take forever to fill. I imagine the fact that USPS drug tests only exacerbates their hiring woes up here.

FWIW, packages are slow up here, but our postal workers are always pretty good at estimating how long the delays are. I've kept track of everything I've sent, and their projection is usually within a day's accuracy.

Since the pandemic began, I've had maybe a dozen packages where I couldn't sign electronically or waive the signature, and only on one (Fed Ex, a guy I had never seen before so probably new) has anyone actually rung my doorbell and asked for a signature. It's fine with me as my porch is perfectly safe.

My porch is just as safe as yours, but I had waited for 4 hours to sign when the package hit my front door.

I had pleaded with the sender not to require a signature to no avail.

FedEx "signature required" and them then playing the extremes of that (either throwing the package and not caring, or making it difficult and virtually demanding you sign in blood...) seems to be a thing that's gone on for some time now. What's with that?

We are lucky, no issues with any carrier...

Frank's wit is so sharp, the man uses it to open boxes.

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It's been said he sets off alarms entering the boarding area of airports.....

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The USPS has been delivering packages in a timely manner in my area. The only problem that I've had recently is that I can still see the tracking on a package "out for delivery" that I received over 2 weeks ago.

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Two things in the card hobby that you can guarantee:

1) People will complain about buyers on Ebay and how "they're getting worse"

2) People will complain about USPS and how "they're getting worse"

These two things are as sure as the sun coming up. In my 20+ years online as a member of eBay and various card forums, those two things have ALWAYS been going on.

Last week, I had someone mail me a package that they shipped at around 2pm. I had it the next morning.

I mailed someone a package on Saturday. Dropped it off around 11am. It was delivered 800 miles away on Monday morning at 7am.

8, 000 miles , yes eight thousand
 

..***** ..An hour ago I received , literally this morning on December 14th , here in the blatant boondocks of the coal regions of Eastern Pennsylvania , halfway between Pottstown and Pottsville , a standard first class normal padded envelope of autographed '36 Chicle and Goudey photocard premiums , which was postmarked December 10th in "Haiku , HI. ", 96708 , which according to Googlemaps is in the blatant boondocks of Maui ......four days .......go figure......and why the cards were in Hawaii in the first place is another story , I'm sure.........so , Mele Kalikimaka to the USPS ......( Der Bingle's version of that song is far and away the best )

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I refunded my guy because the package was MIA for several days. Requested he contact me if it arrived. Few days later it was delivered. He messaged me that he would send paypal. I replied with my paypal email and now waiting.

Tabe you're right; everything always goes smoothly. Thanks for sharing.

Nah, that's not what I said, as you're well aware.

Thank you!

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