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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I shipped a 1920-D Walker I sold for $14 with free shipping. I realize starting your bid at that may result it in it selling for the starting bid. I shipped it a week ago and still no delivery. There is concern the post office lost my package. I know they are just going to say you should have used priority mail or purchased insurance since additional postage is sometimes required for them to do their job. Of course if you sell a coin for $14 and charge $8.00 shipping it will not sell. If you eat the costs you just sold it for $6, not worth selling. Anyone have similar aggravation with the post office? It may still get delivered since it has been a week but maybe not.
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United States
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I had a similar thing happen but mine was going to Canada, was a trade from this forum, 8 oz silver, USPS wanted $34 just to have tracking so I sent without tracking, never arrived, I will not ship anywhere now without tracking.
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United States
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I bought coins on ebay on July 18 and as of today the last update on tracking was on July 22. It's as if they lost it between point A and point B. It was supposed to have been delivered by the 24th. |
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United States
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Quote:I bought coins on ebay on July 18 and as of today the last update on tracking was on July 22. It's as if they lost it between point A and point B. It was supposed to have been delivered by the 24th. You will have an easy refund as the tracking will show they never arrived, hope you get them though |
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A month ago I sent a coin to a U.S. address with ebay USPS tracking. It disappeared from their tracking system for a week only to suddenly reappear and be delivered the next day. There's a good chance it will show up. It's just somewhere is postal purgatory. Paul Bulgerin
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Am assuming you have tracking. Yes, I have also had USPS First Class disappear off of radar for almost a week, then appear. I think you're still ok, but I know it's frustrating.
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 United States
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Yes, it is frustrating since the last coin I sent to Northern California near the Bay Area, disappeared, then appeared in Reno before eventually being delivered. Maybe it will show up, if not I will definitely have to adjust and check out local selling options and only selling coins on ebay worthy of insurance. Their answer for everything is pay more for shipping. It is like telling your customers if you want us to do our jobs pay us more. Edited by buddy16cat
07/31/2014 05:20 am
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Valued Member
United States
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I've sold 3 or 4 coins and the post office lost them, and had to refund the buyers, I was out of the coins and the postage cost.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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They don't lose coins you insure I hear. So seems the only option is sell coins that are cheap and put a stamp on them or sell them expensive with insurance and nothing in between. I love how they tell you to use priority mail when you lose coins or buy insurance. Pay more or will lose your stuff. Not worth it to use the $2 shipping method with tracking, they lose them all the time and don't care so just throw a stamp on it.
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07/31/2014 05:24 am
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 United States
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Recently, I had one package being sent to me with tracking from the dealer. It was at my regional sorting office for a few days. It got scanned as sorted and departed a few times, but it eventually arrived. In all the orders I have placed, USPS has only lost one order, but the vendor gave me a refund.  |
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United States
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Happened to me several times at Hazelwood Mo. They are awful. Package scanned in then nothing for two weeks then shows up and gets delivered. Two were gone for a month then showed up. Not sure where they could be for a month but they all eventually arrived. Unfortunatly the buyer doesn't want to wait a month most of the time so a refund has to be made. Had one scanned in then scanned out then back in again then gone for a week then delivered.  Edited by BluesZone
07/31/2014 09:08 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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buddy.....when did you ship it?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If you use the label printing features at ebay, stamps.com or USPS.com (etc) to print your labels and use decent size bubble mailers (6x9 minimum), your stuff has a better chance of not falling off the radar. Hand written labels with DC stick-ons are an invitation to easily get misrouted. Most 1st Class pkgs (13 ounces and under) and Priority pkgs are only scanned at acceptance, departure, arrival at the destination post office and delivery. They are rarely scanned during transit unless there is a delivery exception involving a misrouting or accident. I usually ship between 20 and 35 pkgs every week. Even taking all the precautions, I still have one or two a year that go AWOL. Longest one was one week. I can live with that. |
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United States
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I just talked to USPS and had the package investigated. They said it wasn't the packaging or the label since I sent many coins the same way. I just don't want to deal with it any longer so ended all my auctions using the first class package shipping option.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Ya gotta do what cha gotta do and do what works best for you. Good luck!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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There is an option. I use UPS for coins over a certain amount. I can just combine the coins I would ship using 1st class package. If something happens with first class package, the post office will do nothing. If you have $5000 worth of insurance, they won't lose it. UPS comes with $100 worth of insurance automatically so there is some liability with every package you don't have to pay extra for. It ticks me off that the post office wrecked building my feedback that I worked for. I will just get them back, I will not use first class package and explore other options.
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08/01/2014 5:42 pm
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