First - I hope this posting is acceptable. If not, moderators may certainly remove it.
I love our regular USPS letter carrier. He is friendly, stops to chat and even gives me any U.S. Wheat Cents he finds. I've given him a couple of coins as well since he knows I buy and sell them.
However, when he goes on vacation and we get a certain substitute carrier it is a different story. This happened two weeks ago and it resulted in two extra trips to the post office for me and some lost money.
The first incident was when I mailed a coin, using
ebay's USPS system with tracking. I put it in our mailbox. The next day the buyer, who lives 2,000 miles away, emailed saying the coin had been delivered, but not to him.
I went to the post office to check this out and discovered that the substitute carrier, when he picked up the coin at my house, scanned it in as delivered . . . to my house.
The clerk at the post office apologized for this and the coin did arrive safely.
Then, later in the week, I discovered that another coin I had mailed from home two days before the first incident had never been scanned in. Nothing has ever appeared in the USPS tracking system and I ended up refunding the buyer the $26.
Again, I went to the post office and they said there was nothing they could do for me since the coin was never scanned.
There is a slight, slight, slight chance someone may have taken it from our mailbox, but I was home all that day, so that is unlikely.
This same substitute carrier also mis-delivered some of our neighbor's mail to us and, when I took it over to our neighbor, he said he had received other people's mail that week as well.
I am now taking almost all packages to the post office to have them scanned in there, but it's not an overly satisfying solution.
Are there options when something like this happens besides praying that my regular carrier never goes on vaction? Thanks.
Posted 12/15/2018 12:23 pm
