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Rest in Peace
United States
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If the package shows delivered both ebay and PayPal will count it as such. Working directly with the post office of delivery is your best hope. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Maybe the recipient can ask the mail carrier if they put it in the mailbox. A USPS Medium Flat Rate Priority Mail box should be easy to remember.
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08/22/2017 12:58 pm
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CCF Advertiser
United States
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File a complaint. It is probably your local carrier and he should be fired. It is unusual for small boxes to be stolen, so it is likely someone that knows you get coins.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Be very careful how you respond to the buyer. You don't know that the package was never actually delivered, if it says delivered I would assume it was delivered and leave it at that. ebay and them will side with you as long as you don't start corroborating his story in messages ect which is why you need to be careful how you respond. There really is no reason to believe that it isn't there when it says it is anyway. Also he doesn't need you to ask the post office to track it or to go and claim he didn't get it. The only thing you can do that he can't is give him his money back and since it shows delivered your insurance claim with be denied and denied again upon appeal. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Just go through the proper ebay channel, and they will likely refund the buyer, and you will keep the $ paid you. Had a similar situation, and that's how it ended up. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Seller notified me that the package was delivered to the wrong mailbox. It was located and he now has the item. There are honest people everywhere. Ham
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That is wonderful news.  I have had a package or two sent to me that got delivered to the wrong address, and those never came to me. I have also had a package sent that was delivered to the wrong address, and it never showed up.  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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This happens more than one might think... Glad it turned up safely!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Great, glad your buyer was honest with you.
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Rest in Peace
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Folks DONT FORGET, the post office scanners record the GPS location of delivery as well as time. It gets resolved easily most times when searching these records. It is usually a misdelivered package 99% of time due to carrier fault or addressed wrong by sender. File claim w/PO and tell them to check while you wait, may require asking for supervisor or Postmaster's help. This was 10 years ago, I would deliver 50-80 mailbox parcels per day on SLOW days per my 702 customer route...only twice was there a mistake, one off mailbox deliveries, around the holidays too. Most carriers aren't smucks, those that are are taken off the mailroom floor in handcuffs, no questions asked...period! Saw that happen twice in six years, one clerk for swiping parcels(bypassed the scan) the other for steaming open cards and taking the cash from grandma out. 15-25 in Federal prisons is mandatory even first time offenders. I wasn't that "couregous" (stupid) to try. Part of a Shift Supervisor's responsibilities was to "covertly follow" a carrier on his route. Not only to look for suspected thieves, just your behavior and following rules(locking truck when get out, etc.  ), they were pretty sneaky for sure!  Former Rural Mail Carrier, USPS Edited by Crazyb0
08/31/2017 1:31 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Great information Crazyb0.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm glad it turned out ok. My experiance is that ebay will refund the buyer no matter what. I have had four packages in 10 years where the PO said it was delivered, but the customer said it was not. So they refunded the buyer. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Same story here. Tracking number indicates "Delivered, In/At Mailbox" but there is no package anywhere to be seen.
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01/23/2021 7:20 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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@NumisEd,
This thread is years ago.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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( I know its a 4 year old thread).
At the beginning of Covid, I was doing the Canadian Large cents, 3 packages said delivered and weren't. I got them a few days later. The first package was delivered to the wrong address, FEDEX went and picked it up and delivered. The other 2 were USPS, in both cases I got the package a few days later, the USPS scanned it delivered when he should have scanned unable to deliver/reschedule. My regular mail carrier was out both days and she informed me that they were shortstaffed so many times the packages staying in the mail car until they could deliver it. Since I am at the end of the route (western most part of town), I am usually the last one to get my packages. Since everyone in my section complained, they now moved us up to the middle of delivery but they also have a much lower package volumn, mail is still much longer than precovid, but no more "Delivered" without being delivered. It might stay "Out for Delivery" for 2 days. Best advice I can give is take care of your regular mail carrier they will make sure you get your mail.
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