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JoannI almost gotta go with Elm here.
"Not one person here seriously believes that Addie tried to intentionally scam anyone"
Josh, I know what you are trying to say - most people on this board will give the benefit of the doubt, and the fact that Addie has completely balled this thing up does not mean that everyone thinks he started out with an intent to defraud anyone. This board is generally more advanced than that.
But when there is all this talk about how a receipt from the post office showing a destination zip code doesn't prove anything unless you have a video of yourself dropping the package into a mailbox (Whuh?? Huh??) or whatever, then very very clearly there are people here implying - or outright saying - that he set out to deliberatley scam someone.
I know. I'm going to get responses to the effect that so and so never said that he didn't mail it. But when someone pointedly comments that a PO receipt with a destination zip code is bupkus by way of any evidence of mailing, surely the intent is to suggest that not only did Addie never mail it, but that he fabricated evidence to show he did. It's saying he's a scammer.
So I do know what you mean Josh, and I like to think that of the board myself. But I also know what Elm means too. Maybe "piling on" is the wrong term because it implies a lot, or a majority, and that may be overstating it. But there is definitely a thread within this thread in which accusations of an intentional ripoff are implied.
Par for the course anymore.
J
(Oh, and none of this changes the fact that Addie has made a mess of this. But as Josh and some others point out, it seems clear that it was a pure accident/mail loss, followed by some spectacularly poor decisions on his part.)