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Extreme Veteran
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Location: South Dakota | I sent 3 beaded noseband strips and a beaded belt strip to my leather lady the end of last week, by USPS. She was going to inlay them for me.
This is what she sends me today, the red ink says "Received without contents" and the box was ripped open. I spent hours working on these items  I'm a little upset, but I know there's not much I can do about it now. I will however get to the bottom of it. I am always so honest and I'm always getting ripped off!!!
What does everyone make of this?
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 Hog Tie My Mojo
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Location: Opelousas, LA | How did you send them? USPS has a small amount of insurance that is standard on anything sent priority or express.
Sorry that happened to you! |
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  Northern Chocolate Queen
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Location: ND | That's awful. I insure every drawing I ship for that very reason. I've only had to collect on it once but it's worth the couple extra dollars. |
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Extreme Veteran
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Location: South Dakota | ^^^ This is exactly why I posted this on BHW, I knew someone would be able to help. I'll check into that. Thank you
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 The BHW Book Worm
Posts: 1768
| Omg that would make me sick!!!!!! I don't know who you call in a situation like that but I would be mad enough to find out. I sent out Christmas cards and 6 of them never got to the addresses and we're never sent back to me. I double checked addresses and they were correct....not the same situation just irritating though |
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Extreme Veteran
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Location: South Dakota | SaraJean - 2014-01-22 6:13 PM That's awful. I insure every drawing I ship for that very reason. I've only had to collect on it once but it's worth the couple extra dollars.
I suck at mailing things. I need to get smarter about what's what as far as shipping. I've always just trusted my post master to give me the safest option I need as far as insuring, etc. I don't even honestly know what it costs to insure a package, but I definitely learned my lesson. Never again without insurance! |
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I Need a Xanax!
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| Priority mail through USPS is automatically insured up to $100 or at least it is for me....I ship through USPS through my online account and either drop the package off at the post office ready to go or if its small enough I just stick it in my mailbox for my carrier to pick up. |
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 More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Used2B - 2014-01-22 7:29 PM Priority mail through USPS is automatically insured up to $100 or at least it is for me....I ship through USPS through my online account and either drop the package off at the post office ready to go or if its small enough I just stick it in my mailbox for my carrier to pick up.
Its really beneficial to use the click to ship through USPS. You get free delivery confirmation and insurance.
I'm so sorry this happened to you. That's a crock that someone stole your beadwork. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: TX | If you send USPS priority mail you receive $50 insurance with the postage, Priority express mail receives $100 insurance. I always use a postal service box and so far I've not have anything lost.
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| I'm so sorry that happened to you! I hope the bastard feels guilty. Unfortunately something similar happened to me. I had been waiting and WAITING for a school refund check, which let me say wasn't small, and my mom and I thought it had been lost in the mail. It finally, and randomly turned up in the mail box. Envelope RIPPED open. Thankfully my name was printed on the check and all...but it makes me wonder who the heck was snooping and how they knew I was getting this. I live in BFE too! |
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Location: Kansas | usps is ticking me off.....A few weeks ago I shipped a saddle pad.....paid for 2 day shipping, and buyer doesn't get it until 5 days later....thankfully she was great about it and saw the receipt said 2 day shipping. |
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 "Drank the Kool Aid"
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Location: Iowa, LA | I'm really starting to wonder how safe USPS is anymore! I had loaned some Easyboots and trimming DVDs to a board buddy and when she mailed them back the package was lost and boots were never found. Thank goodness they did recover the DVD's! It cost her a fortune to buy replacement boots for me.
Then over the holidays a friend of mine shipped a care package full of Cajun seasoning, gumbo roux, presents, etc to her family in California and the only thing they "recovered" were a few things that were worthless. Her Aunt said the box had not been damaged at all! It was as though someone neatly opened it and took what they wanted and closed it up. Insurance was not bought in either case. |
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"Drank the Kool Aid"
Posts: 5496
Location: Iowa, LA | hoofs_in_motion - 2014-01-22 8:33 PM
usps is ticking me off.....A few weeks ago I shipped a saddle pad.....paid for 2 day shipping, and buyer doesn't get it until 5 days later....thankfully she was great about it and saw the receipt said 2 day shipping.
The same thing happened to me! It was only one day late but the buyer was ticked off that it cost so much to ship and took longer than they said. |
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 Quack Quack Woodle Woodle
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Location: Texas | If you shipped priority it will automatically have $50 insured. A lot of the products I sell are worth way more than that so I'll add more every now and then depending on the product. |
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Hog Tie My Mojo
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Location: Opelousas, LA | FedEx lost an entire big drum of Platinum Performance, can't remember how many pounds it was exactly but it was NOT cheap! Thankfully PP replaced it. |
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Location: southeast Texas | My experience with USPS insurance. If something is lost or damaged, better have PROOF of its value. Just because you have insurance doesnt mean you can collect..... |
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 Good Grief!
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | I have been on the receiving end of this kind of pkg.....we had pics and prices and I never got any Insurance money..but the lady that sent it was wonderful and tried to replace most of it..which was really nice of her........M |
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| If possible I always ship by bus, like greyhound. Cheaper, easier to track, much quicker than mail or other shippers and insurance can be added for less cost than through the mail or other shipping companies. Something like your beaded items if shipping in the mail, I would spend the money and send in what is called a security package, I would think that this would hopefully deter someone from tampering with your package as there would be more recourse with tampering with a package like this |
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 I Chore in Chucks
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Location: MD | UPS
that's all I'm saying. I don't ship or buy a lot of things and almost everytime I ship with USPS i have a problem. but I've NEVER had a problem with UPS, or FedEX for that matter, except they won't leave packages at my door for some reason. |
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I keep my change in my pockets
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Location: MN | In our area people were mailing from the post office cards that had money or gift cards, and finding out that when the cards were received that the money or gifts cards were missing. The posy office sent up a sting and it was the driver of mail truck that moves the mail from the post offices to a main sorting place was going throughout the mail in the truck and taking money and gift cards out the cards being mail. He was very good at opening the letters and resealing them. You had to know what to look for to see that the letter had been tampered with. |
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 Forever Young
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Location: relocated to Texas | Postal workers, Federal Express, UPS, etc. can steal items from packages. I used to work for a fine jewelry store and we shipped jewelry all over the country. The return address we would put on those packages was not from the store, but the owner's residence. We woud box the item in a small box, then another box, then another - up to four boxes so that if anyone ripped open the package (workers can do this and say it was "damaged") to see what was inside (its called snatch and grab) they would see another box. It would take someone a long time to go through putting a fake hole in four boxes. We also insured our shipments, of course.
If you are shipping out bead work, do not put anything on the outside of the package that might indicate what is inside. Whomever you send it with, make sure you have a tracking number as these packages have to be accounted for and are harder for workers to steal. (They can still "damage" them though.) Pack a box inside a box and insure your package. Those would be my suggestions when shipping anything of value. |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | dawnb - 2014-01-23 9:30 AM In our area people were mailing from the post office cards that had money or gift cards, and finding out that when the cards were received that the money or gifts cards were missing. The posy office sent up a sting and it was the driver of mail truck that moves the mail from the post offices to a main sorting place was going throughout the mail in the truck and taking money and gift cards out the cards being mail. He was very good at opening the letters and resealing them. You had to know what to look for to see that the letter had been tampered with.
I seal all envelopes and then "Scotch tape" over the sealed part of the envelopes. It is pretty hard to get it open without it being noticed. |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | NJJ - 2014-01-23 10:56 AM dawnb - 2014-01-23 9:30 AM In our area people were mailing from the post office cards that had money or gift cards, and finding out that when the cards were received that the money or gifts cards were missing. The posy office sent up a sting and it was the driver of mail truck that moves the mail from the post offices to a main sorting place was going throughout the mail in the truck and taking money and gift cards out the cards being mail. He was very good at opening the letters and resealing them. You had to know what to look for to see that the letter had been tampered with. I seal all envelopes and then "Scotch tape" over the sealed part of the envelopes. It is pretty hard to get it open without it being noticed.
That what I do also when sending checks, money/gift cards, I tape all the seams with scotch tape. There was someone at the post office down in the Valley where I moved from that was stealing all the gift cards. So I had lost a few...  |
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Location: on a hill | sorry this happened to you. next time you ship out your bead work write on the outside of the envelope "Hand Cancel do not machine run" really big. your envelope went through a large not bulk friendly sorting machine and probably got stuck. The beads are maybe at the sorting facility. Did you call the post office that it was mailed from and file a claim? if you are very specific in describing the item, they might be able to locate it. Have the person you shipped it to call her post office and do the same thing minus filing the claim. it could have happened on her end at the sorting facility. all facilities have a lost and found dept. you should see the way things are handled at these facilities, everything is run though large machines and travels on miles of conveyor belts. packages are stuffed into large bags, tossed into large bins with wheels, etc... very little is hand sorted anymore, let alone handled by humans. machines jam up. JFYI, USPS haters, UPS and FEDEX use the same type of sorting set up. they do do not walk/carry the packages one at a time, from one end of the building to the other. good luck & i hope they are found. |
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Mrs. Troy
Location: western Nebraska | I had the same thing happen. I mailed out over 70 packages of orders for Christmas and one didn't make it. We tracked it to Denver and then it said it was undeliverable or unreturnable. From there it was lost. My postmaster got them to finally say it was sent to a dead letter place in Seatle. That is the last we have heard. I have been trying to file a claim and was on hold for 43 minutes before I hung up. Then I tried to file it online and it keeps saying error. So I am not giving up but I am tired of banging my head on the wall!! |
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Blessed 
Location: Here | Doesn't look like priority shipping. Sorry this happened but don't ship items that have any bulk to them in a flat box of envelope. The processing maching will get stuck and rip open then envelope. anything other than paper make sure you have it in a box. Priority and signed for it and insured |
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 Ms. Marine
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Location: Texas | keller235 - 2014-01-22 7:00 PM
I sent 3 beaded noseband strips and a beaded belt strip to my leather lady the end of last week, by USPS. She was going to inlay them for me.
This is what she sends me today, the red ink says "Received without contents" and the box was ripped open. I spent hours working on these items I'm a little upset, but I know there's not much I can do about it now. I will however get to the bottom of it. I am always so honest and I'm always getting ripped off!!!
What does everyone make of this?
I sent you a PM. |
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Extreme Veteran
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Location: South Dakota | Got it!! But the link appears to be broken? Any way you can screen shot it and PM me? |
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