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[SmokeyJoe]

Originally Posted by Cigargal

A DC is not a tracking number and only costs 65 ...

This is true... one USPS employee explained that when you get your DC# at the window, they have an origination scan that sometimes allows for a certain amount of tracking.

If you use an automated or on-line source, there is no origination scan, and therefore only the confimation of delivery will be seen - which is all you have actually been sold.

Now, if it does not show the Delivery Confirmed, you certainly have the right to get your $0.65 back. I expect to get what I pay for... but with USPS, any tracking is just gravy. My .
(edit: posted after response. Be well!)

[pnoon]

Originally Posted by SmokeyJoe

If you use an automated or on-line source, there is no origination scan, and therefore only the confimation of delivery will be seen - which is all you have actually been sold.

I use usps.com to generate and pay for my labels.

DC is free. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Zero.

[bobarian]

Originally Posted by pnoon

I use usps.com to generate and pay for my labels.

DC is free. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Zero.

Peter knows stuff.

[SmokeyJoe]

Originally Posted by bobarian

Peter knows stuff.

Amen.

[GrumpyOleTroll]

I use the online printer option also and I have found that if its scanned at the desk when shipped I see the entire trip even if its a day late or so in updating (costs nothing on the USPS.COM site) but on the same hand if I am using the APM (Automated Postage Machine) I rarely get any info about my DC that was on the shipping form.




Shawn

[Skywalker]

You can send cigars in the mail???

Some people have accused me of sending cigars by pony express but I have wised up since then! I only use USPS and never go through a secondary (Mail Box etc.) type outfit.

[gnukfu]

Originally Posted by Skywalker

You can send cigars in the mail???

Some people have accused me of sending cigars by pony express but I have wised up since then! I only use USPS and never go through a secondary (Mail Box etc.) type outfit.

One box you sent arrived on a pony! Took me a couple of weeks to shoo him away!

[drob]

Originally Posted by SmokeyJoe

This is true... one USPS employee explained that when you get your DC# at the window, they have an origination scan that sometimes allows for a certain amount of tracking.

If you use an automated or on-line source, there is no origination scan, and therefore only the confimation of delivery will be seen - which is all you have actually been sold.

Now, if it does not show the Delivery Confirmed, you certainly have the right to get your $0.65 back. I expect to get what I pay for... but with USPS, any tracking is just gravy. My .
(edit: posted after response. Be well!)

This is true. Human nature says that not EVERY package will be scanned at every stop, as I am sure is the same with UPS. We strive for 100% scans, but nobody is perfect.