"We Care" - USPS - My surprise yesterday...

[Leon]

Here is a quick update that is fortunately not entirely unique. The seller is a stand up guy and said he would make it right and send me another card from the series, which I am/was very appreciative of. I got a snail mail letter with a card in it from him a few days ago. It stated he had originally put the card inside an old envelope that had his pre-printed return address on it. Otherwise it was a blank and unused envelope, with the card in it and stuck inside the, now mauled, mailer above.
Well, he received the blank envelope with the card still in it in his regular mail several (now) days ago. It was delivered with no postage due or anything. Now the original card is back to me and all is well.
I had another situation, similar to this, happen many years ago. That incident is recounted here somewhere in the archives. Fact is stranger than fiction. And props go out to whatever postal employees made this recent card retrieval happen.*The card is undamaged too. "They did good" on this one.

[gnaz01]

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

[frankbmd]

After giving USPS a bad rap for this, Leon, I think you should be compelled to resort to pigeons in the future.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

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.