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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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  Fact Checker
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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
Posts: 4642
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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