paying for USPS fault

[Bicem]

Originally Posted by Leon

So if I send you a $5000 card and it gets lost you will eat $2500? Sweet.....

(though I am sure you and I would just meet at Starbucks or you could swing by the house, most folks aren't in close enough range for that though)

maybe, IF I never asked for insurance.

[brob28]

I said, yes with a big assumption that the seller did not offer insurance. If seller offers insurance and buyer refuses, I say no. The key to me is that the item is tracked within the USPS system and then falls off.

[Piratedogcardshows]

Tough question and while I feel the Seller in a situation such as this has done everything right it is still there responsibility to get the card to the buyer in the end.Hopefully no one would send a card over say 250 without insurance.I would feel pretty silly to lose money over the few dollars it takes to insurance an item.

[olrac44]

It happened to me earlier in the year. In April, I met up with a large PSA dealer at a show, he was busy and trying catch a flight home. He gave me a bunch of cards and said to mail him back whatever I didn't want to buy.

I sent the cards registered mail, which allegedly, a USPS employee is supposed to sign for the package from the origin to the final destination so it shows a chain of custody. Well, 4 days go by and the tracking information says it's still at the post office that I dropped it off!!! I go there and they can't find it. The dealer calls me looking for the cards.

The package arrives that day but the USPS failed to perform a chain of custody for the cards.

Way to go USPS!!