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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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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
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| 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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 Undercover Amish Mafia Member
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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"
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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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 Dog Resuce Agent
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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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