USPS - Holiday Slowdowns in Full Force Already?

[tjisonline]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Screenshot of the tracking. Apparently it was noted as a Damaged Box the morning before it was put on the truck and delivered to me.

The only thing I needed to see in your tracking history was Philadelphia distribution center. That center is known to open boxes especially if someone think it’s cards.

Did the shipping label contain any wording about about sports, cards, etc… I stopped using USPS years ago. My father worked for USPS (35 years ) and has nightmare stories. Theft was rapid before 2003 (mainly if a worker thought it was cash or jewelry ) so he can only imagine what it’s like now.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by tjisonline

The only thing I needed to see in your tracking history was Philadelphia distribution center. That center is known to open boxes especially if someone think it’s cards.

Did the shipping label contain any wording about about sports, cards, etc… I stopped using USPS years ago. My father worked for USPS (35 years ) and has nightmare stories. Theft was rapid before 2003 (mainly if a worker thought it was cash or jewelry ) so he can only imagine what it’s like now.

No, there was not.

Also, as much as I want to blame USPS, I'm starting to think it was a horrible packing job from the seller.

The picture I showed above, of the opened box. It slid open like that on it's own. It was not taped closed. I suspect if was never properly taped closed. It looks like the seller re-used an old box that was sent to them (nothing wrong with that), but neglected to put any additional tape on top of the old tape job. You can see on the side (which I've blurred out most of it), they didn't even properly block out the old Shipping and Return address, before they slapped another label on a different part of the box, to send it out to me.

It looked like they had a bunch of other BBCE boxes that sold at the same time. Most of them, more expensive then mine. Hope they shipped those out better then mine.

Also, their response to me after I sent them pictures and an explanation, didn't exactly give me confidence this won't be a long drawn out game of chicken.

I'll quote below:

Let me contact Ebay. I have never had it happened before.

[Ben Yourg]

My wife said the "Postmaster General"said prepare for
the mail to get even slower.
I had a package get lost not too long ago.
I had a tracking number but its' last seen location said it was lost
I lost it at a distribution center.
Go online to USPS customer service.You need to talk to a person..
They found mine.

[BobbyStrawberry]

Originally Posted by Ben Yourg

My wife said the "Postmaster General"said prepare for
the mail to get even slower.

It's almost as if having people head agencies whose sole mission is to stop the agency from functioning properly is a bad idea...

[obiwan1129]

Just cover your ears.

Originally Posted by BobbyStrawberry

It's almost as if having people head agencies whose sole mission is to stop the agency from functioning properly is a bad idea...

[jingram058]

DeJoy was hired to manage USPS out of existence.

[BobbyStrawberry]

Originally Posted by obiwan1129

Just cover your ears.

That was quite a scene.

[bcbgcbrcb]

It’s now a full two months removed from the holiday season and the USPS shipping times have been no better over these past two months than they were during November and December. Every single package coming from PSA to Florida (when I am the buyer/recipient), thanks to ebay’s for wonderful authenticity guaranty program, takes more than a week to arrive and averages close to 10 days. At the same time, every package going from FL to PSA (when I am the seller/shipper) gets there the second or third business day after shipping. Any thoughts as to why this is?