Im ready to rip USPS's head off...

[Barteur]

I would have a VSG tres mystique if I were you

Sorry to hear this, I hope they find it and that your phone company pass it under warranty.

Frenchie

[stevieray]

Well, being a Postal employee I was going to offer help and advice but seeing that Postal employees are all asses I'll just keep my mouth shut..........

[BlackDog]

Originally Posted by stevieray

Well, being a Postal employee I was going to offer help and advice but seeing that Postal employees are all asses I'll just keep my mouth shut..........

Can you quote the sentence where the OP says ALL postal employees are asses, as opposed to just the ones in this particular office?

[gettysburgfreak]

I got the impression he was talking about the particular ass clowns in the post office that he went to.

Sorry to hear about your troubles man, hopefully things will work out for you in the end but in the mean time have a cold beer and a nice cigar and think about something good going on in your life.

[stevieray]

Originally Posted by BlackDog

Can you quote the sentence where the OP says ALL postal employees are asses, as opposed to just the ones in this particular office?

I can't......I guess some words jumped off the screen at me and rubbed me the wrong way.


To the OP.....

First, while I understand that you paid for priority service, 2-3 days is the average delivery time...not a guarantee. If you mailed it on June 23 it's only been 7 days. I would not think that it's "lost". Just held up in the system right now. I know that might not be what you want to hear....but it's probably reality.

Right now the Postal Service is undergoing major consolidations at many of the processing plants nationwide. Mail that was dispatched and processed down the street is now being shipped say 90 miles away due to consolidation. In my area this has just started this week. New procedures = mistakes. It's not something that you will hear your local PO say...but it's true. Perhaps your piece was missent to another state. Sometimes these things happen. The letters and parcels are read, coded, and sorted by machines. If a machine reads the zip code starting with a 9 instead of a 0 it's going for a coast to coast trip to California instead of Connecticut. If your package was missent you won't see an arrival scan until it hits the correct office.

9 times out of 10 parcels and letters that people think are lost show up within a 10 day period. I would not give up hope that your package will be delivered.

As for not buying insurance......that's on you. No insurance means Post Office not liable. There is no way around that. I have never seen the PO pay someone for a package that wasn't insured.

Hopefully some of this info helps. Who knows...maybe the package will be delivered tomorrow. Good luck.

One more thing to add....If this package was going to a large company things are handled a little differently than residential delivery. Sometimes a company only picks up their mail on certain days of the week. Usually they wait until there is enough to fill a truck and then they pick up. Perhaps this article is sitting at the destination PO and waiting to be picked up. You might want to do a search on the net and find the phone number of that office and try calling them. It might help.

Originally Posted by stevieray

Well, being a Postal employee I was going to offer help and advice but seeing that Postal employees are all asses I'll just keep my mouth shut..........

Give the guy a little break, he is emotionally stressed about a lot of stuff which he mentioned before he started. I think everyone can understand his frustration and any help you may be able to offer would be greatly appreciated.

[Barteur]

Originally Posted by DougBushBC

Give the guy a little break, he is emotionally stressed about a lot of stuff which he mentioned before he started. I think everyone can understand his frustration and any help you may be able to offer would be greatly appreciated.

[Sauer Grapes]

Originally Posted by DougBushBC

Give the guy a little break, he is emotionally stressed about a lot of stuff which he mentioned before he started. I think everyone can understand his frustration and any help you may be able to offer would be greatly appreciated.

Plus he's a new yorker... he's already been dealt a bad hand.

[Trace63]

Originally Posted by Barteur

I would have a VSG tres mystique if I were you

Frenchie

None of those in my humi. :/ I do have the last stick of my BTT to fire up when I have time though.

Originally Posted by DougBushBC

Give the guy a little break, he is emotionally stressed about a lot of stuff which he mentioned before he started. I think everyone can understand his frustration and any help you may be able to offer would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks man. Cheers to you.

Originally Posted by stevieray

I can't......I guess some words jumped off the screen at me and rubbed me the wrong way.


To the OP.....

First, while I understand that you paid for priority service, 2-3 days is the average delivery time...not a guarantee. If you mailed it on June 23 it's only been 7 days. I would not think that it's "lost". Just held up in the system right now. I know that might not be what you want to hear....but it's probably reality.

Right now the Postal Service is undergoing major consolidations at many of the processing plants nationwide. Mail that was dispatched and processed down the street is now being shipped say 90 miles away due to consolidation. In my area this has just started this week. New procedures = mistakes. It's not something that you will hear your local PO say...but it's true. Perhaps your piece was missent to another state. Sometimes these things happen. The letters and parcels are read, coded, and sorted by machines. If a machine reads the zip code starting with a 9 instead of a 0 it's going for a coast to coast trip to California instead of Connecticut. If your package was missent you won't see an arrival scan until it hits the correct office.

9 times out of 10 parcels and letters that people think are lost show up within a 10 day period. I would not give up hope that your package will be delivered.

As for not buying insurance......that's on you. No insurance means Post Office not liable. There is no way around that. I have never seen the PO pay someone for a package that wasn't insured.

Hopefully some of this info helps. Who knows...maybe the package will be delivered tomorrow. Good luck.

One more thing to add....If this package was going to a large company things are handled a little differently than residential delivery. Sometimes a company only picks up their mail on certain days of the week. Usually they wait until there is enough to fill a truck and then they pick up. Perhaps this article is sitting at the destination PO and waiting to be picked up. You might want to do a search on the net and find the phone number of that office and try calling them. It might help.

Thanks a lot! I just figured it was lost since the tracking # doesnt say anything but accepted. On top of that the guy who called me today from the PO gave me this whole lecture, making me believe it was lost.
I'll give it a few more days. Hopefully it shows up.

Originally Posted by Sauer Grapes

Plus he's a new yorker... he's already been dealt a bad hand.

Dont be jealous, im just the badass you wish you were

[stevieray]

If you want to PM me the certified number I'll run it through my computer at work tomorrow. Can't promise anything but maybe I can see something that somebody else can't.

[RGD.]

Originally Posted by Trace63

. . . .

Thanks a lot! I just figured it was lost since the tracking # doesnt say anything but accepted. On top of that the guy who called me today from the PO gave me this whole lecture, making me believe it was lost.
I'll give it a few more days. Hopefully it shows up. . . .

Best bet at this time is just to give it a wait and see. You know I can mail a package from Virginia to say California and it gets there in 3 days. Heaven help though if I mail to one state away - it's going to take every bit of 10 days to get there.

I think we have all been where you are right now at some point. If I have to send something to Verizon I triple photo-copy the receipts - get a Justice of the Peace, Circuit Court judge and 7 non-related eye-witnesses to verify that I sent it via sworn affidavits. And Verizon will still claim they never got it -

I know it's hard - especially when you are already having a bad month - but hang in there and give it some more time.


Ron

[TheTraveler]

Originally Posted by Sauer Grapes

Plus he's a new yorker... he's already been dealt a bad hand.

Originally Posted by Trace63

Dont be jealous, im just the badass you wish you were

Ha! Don't let the massholes hear you say that - in Red Sox country they might take that as a challenge!

[Trace63]

Originally Posted by TheTraveler

Ha! Don't let the massholes hear you say that - in Red Sox country they might take that as a challenge!

Hey, for all I know I might be a Masshole myself within 2 years. Hoping to move to Boston for grad school

[alley00p]

Kamil, I have my fingers crossed, wishing you good luck on this!!

Keep the faith, brother and keep us posted here!!!

[SeanGAR]

Originally Posted by stevieray

Well, being a Postal employee I was going to offer help and advice but seeing that Postal employees are all asses I'll just keep my mouth shut..........