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12-11-2024, 05:11 PM
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I've been getting USPS on only about 3 days a week. My "informed delivery" tells me what is *supposed* to come, but on many days nothing arrives.
I have packages marked "delivered" that show up the next day. The worst was a USPS signature-required package - valued at a few k of baseball cards. It was marked delivered and signed for. Was worried for a few hours before the delivery guy showed up, and said that they marked them delivered early to avoid a 6pm deadline. I questioned the legality of signing my name for me....and the liability if it got lost. Sigh.
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12-11-2024, 08:48 PM
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I bought a card on ebay on Nov 30th. I live near San Antonio, TX.
The card was mailed on Dec 1st in Lake Worth, FL (near Palm Beach). On Dec 6th, it arrived in Dallas, TX Here's where everything went haywire: On Dec 9th, the card showed up in Questa, NM (a rural town in extreme northern New Mexico, north of Taos). On Dec 10th, it showed up in Albuquerque, NM. This afternoon, it arrived in Shreveport, LA. So, I'm sitting here, near San Antonio, TX, still waiting for the damn card to get back to Texas. Steve
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12-11-2024, 09:18 PM
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Last month, I bought a Mike Trout autographed baseball on ebay.
The seller shipped it in an aprox 8"x10"x12" box, with styrofoam peanut filler. When it got to me, it looked like it had actually been run over by a truck; the box itself was smashed, the plastic ball cube was shattered into tiny pieces, the ball had been cut into by the sharp plastic, and the PSA/DNA COA was mangled and punctured, as were an Ultra Pro sheet protector and a hard cardboard backing. Luckily, after contacting the seller, sending everything back to him, and my local post office admitting that the box got to them smashed, I got a full refund. I hope the seller ultimately gets refunded by the USPS, as the package was insured. Steve
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12-11-2024, 09:52 PM
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I am not an advocate for shipping in ball cubes for precisely this reason. Find another way. Cover it in a ton of bubble wrap and it will be safer.
Ball cubes are rinky-dink garbage. The older ones were made with stronger material. The modern versions are so flimsy. Just a terrible product. If you insist upon using a plastic case to ship, then use the ones that are round, conforming to the shape of the ball. Less chance of problems. But again, go crazy with the bubble wrap. Last edited by BillyCoxDodgers3B; 12-11-2024 at 09:57 PM.
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12-11-2024, 11:13 PM
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Bought a card 11/27 ,just left the authenticator today, 12/11.
Sent an express mail Monday from NC to Michigan, and was there in less than 24 hrs. Who knows.
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12-12-2024, 05:49 PM
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I had a first time mail problem today. I sent two packages from Florida to NJ last Thursday. One got there on Monday. The other had zero updates until this morning, when it all of a sudden showed up in Greensboro, Georgia and said it was being prepared to be delivered today. I had no idea the poor mailmen in Greensboro, GA went all the way to central NJ.
I called their office today. They asked for the tracking number and halfway through the lady finished the number for me. She said the sticker with the tracking number arrived there stuck to the side of a different package and they didn't have the package I sent, just the sticker. She told me it happens occasionally and the package should still get there, but there's zero way to track it now. Anyone else ever had this problem?
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12-13-2024, 07:50 PM
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Out of the 5 packages that I have been waiting on for over 2 weeks each now, one is officially lost, one arrived today, one has been in the next town from me for the last two days now but still hasn’t made it here yet. The other two are still in the postal system somewhere, moving VERY SLOWLY. 1 for 5 doesn’t sound so bad but a major leaguer with a .200 batting average probably isn’t keeping his job for very long, huh? As I recall, didn’t work out too well for Mario Mendoza. lol
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