Anyone lose a package through PSA?

[glynparson]

It was about 12-15 years ago they ran over a box I had insured for $2500. They tried to not pay me. My lawyer sent a letter to the mail n ship for you place that i used informing them we would be suing them and all of a sudden fed ex decided to cough up the money. I may have been saved by using the third party I don't know. But I had clearly stated they were baseball cards and their agent accepted them was the argument my lawyer made and they caved. Hope it turns out well for you.

[barrysloate]

My feeling, which of course the shippers don't share, is that you can insure any box for anything you want, and if it is lost you are entitled to full recovery without the need to demonstrate what was inside.

If I want to ship a ball of string via registered mail and insure it for $25K, the maximum allowed, that is my prerogative. If you take the argument that I am scamming the post office because if it gets lost I get a big payday, then guess what: if I sent a hundred boxes like that hoping even one got lost, every last one of them would make it to their destination and I would be out thousands of dollars in fees without seeing a penny. Anybody trying to scam the post office that way is guaranteed to lose.

Now I have had a few first class USPS packages lost, and they have always demanded to see the invoice, receipt, or whatever can document the amount of the item lost. Why? I am paying more than I need to to ship something with insurance, so why would I add to my own expenses if nothing were inside the box? Hoping against hope that it might get lost? I don't think so.

Of course it goes without saying that the post office doesn't buy my theory.

[E93]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

My feeling, which of course the shippers don't share, is that you can insure any box for anything you want, and if it is lost you are entitled to full recovery without the need to demonstrate what was inside.

If I want to ship a ball of string via registered mail and insure it for $25K, the maximum allowed, that is my prerogative. If you take the argument that I am scamming the post office because if it gets lost I get a big payday, then guess what: if I sent a hundred boxes like that hoping even one got lost, every last one of them would make it to their destination and I would be out thousands of dollars in fees without seeing a penny. Anybody trying to scam the post office that way is guaranteed to lose.

Now I have had a few first class USPS packages lost, and they have always demanded to see the invoice, receipt, or whatever can document the amount of the item lost. Why? I am paying more than I need to to ship something with insurance, so why would I add to my own expenses if nothing were inside the box? Hoping against hope that it might get lost? I don't think so.

Of course it goes without saying that the post office doesn't buy my theory.

Exactly. I have never understood why they give a $H!t what is inside. It is simply a bet on their part that they lose a smaller percentage of packages than they make money on by insuring. It is simply a numbers game.

In other words, if they bet (charge) $10 to insure a $100 package and lose less than one out of 11, they make money whether it is string or baseball cards. They are up $10.
JimB

[barrysloate]

Jim- I'll even take it a step further and say the post office should encourage people to put paper clips in a box, send it registered with 25K worth of insurance, and guarantee the sender full reimbursement if it gets lost, no questions asked.

It would probably bring in millions of dollars of added revenue, and if they do their job right not one package would get lost. It might even close their budget gap.

If they made me postmaster general, I could balance their books in two years.

[baseballart]

Originally Posted by E93

Exactly. I have never understood why they give a $H!t what is inside. B

Well, sometimes they should http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81318891/.

[Ease]

Originally Posted by baseballart

Well, sometimes they should http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81318891/.

Gawd! There's absolutely no excuse for that kind of ignorance, how does someone that stupid live to adulthood?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Ease

Gawd! There's absolutely no excuse for that kind of ignorance, how does someone that stupid live to adulthood?

They should force that lady into a big box, put a few holes in it so she can breathe, and then put her ass on a plane for 3 days. Just like Mike Vick should only get done to him what he did to those dogs. Nothing more and nothing less. And all of this should be done publicly. Then we could see how long these idiots do this stuff.

[jezzeaepi]

So I called fedex today to see if they had located my package, and they said "they could not locate the person who is in charge of my case, and they will call back tomorrow." lol. I guess they can't find anything over there. Classic...