BST question/opinions please

[tonyo]

Peter is right about the GPS coordinates. The post office supervisor has to do it though. As I was googling to check that out, I saw a half dozen instances of items scanned as delivered, but were not received.

Sadly, Jim is right too, I'm just pretty cheap , but it probably is the thing to do.

thanks everyone

[frankbmd]

Several years ago my son sent an overnight Christmas gift to me in Northern Wisconsin. He seemed quite upset a couple of days later when I told him it hadn’t arrived. FedEx showed that it had been delivered on time. A couple of days passed, but still no package. Utter disappointment on my son’s end of the phone.

We lived in a wooded subdivision with large lots. Our street was a short culdesac with only two homes addressed on the street. Unknown to me our unfriendly neighbors (hi bob) were out of town (and the woods) for the holidays.

Our mail box was at the other end of the culdesac. Our neighbors had a P.O. Box.

Six days after the undelivered delivery while out to get our mail, I glanced at our neighbor’s driveway and home tucked in his little corner of woods. Lo and behold the corner of a box caught my eye. Not knowing they were out of town, I proceeded carefully up their driveway. No gunfire, whew. The box on their front door step was mine.

My son’s angst over this whole episode was related to the contents of the package, his gift to me. The temperature for the entire week that the package sat outside never exceeded 20 degrees, but the contents were just fine.

His gift to me was from a specialty shop in Columbus, Ohio. A selection of gourmet ice cream was his gift. Living in a freezer does have at least one benefit.

[pawpawdiv9]

I sold a high-end card to a member many yrs ago. I take the extra steps to protect & insure.
In this case several K, i used the registered mail method. (where its under lock & key and every handler has to sign it).
Of course this was going coast to coast. And it took like a week to get there. Generally the buyer was worried and was i after the 3-4 days. If i had used priorty mail it might of got there quicker, but it cost more than registered mail. In the end, it got there.
IDEA- anything above 100$ i insure it.