USPS Delivery Confirmation: Recent Experiences?

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Morgan Fred Rest in Peace United States 2684 Posts	Posted 08/19/2006 3:06 pm I debated over in which forum to place this question, but since Delivery Confirmation is used mostly for ebay, I went with this forum. I've been out of eBaying for several months, will get back to it in another month or so and want to get my ducks all lined up. I very recently sent a parcel (non-coin) and used my usual USPS Delivery Confirmation online method for ensuring the package arrived. As we've discussed before, the USPS has only the obligation AFAIK to scan the parcel upon delivery and enter the information online. I mailed the parcel (Media Mail - a bunch of DVDs and paperback books; MUCH cheaper than Parcel Post) at the main Post Office in Flagstaff, AZ where I watched the clerk scan it into the system as I submitted it. A couple days later, I checked with the USPS online tracking site http://www.usps.com/shipping/trackandconfirm.htm . Much to my surprise, I was able to follow the package's journey to upstate New York: Colorado Springs, CO, Indiana, Boston, then Averill Park, NY. It had been scanned at each major intermediate point along the way. Does anyone know if this tracking as part of DC service is a new USPS policy? Or just a fluke for this one parcel? I'd like to know ahead of time as I prepare for my upcoming ebay season; I am thinking of changing my method(s) for coin and other parcels (e.g., Signature Confirmation) to ensure a parcel not only has been delivered to an address, but is delivered to the right person. It would also be advantageous to be able to follow a parcel's routing in the instance of a "lost" package and if DC will be tracked over its entire journey, I will certainly include it when I send out a coin. Fred Report this Post to the Staff

bobby131313 Forum Dad United States 24170 Posts	Posted 08/19/2006 3:17 pm quote: Does anyone know if this tracking as part of DC service is a new USPS policy? No it's not. The postal employees do this to cover their butts with MM. Why you ask? I'll tell you. No media mail is allowed to go into any postal vehicle (excluding the actual final delivery vehicle) until there is a certain amount of square inches to be loaded. That's why it's so cheap and can take so long. If you use a slow PO and send a CD MM and no one else comes with any other MM for a week, it will sit there. The employees scan the MM when they put it on a truck, so if a supervisor approaches them about loading it, at least they can show the super the scan logs and say "Look, there was plenty, there were 14 (or whatever) MM packages that day to go on the truck." I hope I explained that well enough. Shop CCF Members on eBay. Report this Post to the Staff
TLS5933 Pillar of the Community United States 1703 Posts	Posted 08/19/2006 3:21 pm Fred, I think its just a fluke. I ship USPS with Conformation a couple times a week and all it ever shows is my dropoff and the delivery. Report this Post to the Staff
Bryan1315 Bedrock of the Community United States 14454 Posts	Posted 08/19/2006 4:41 pm as Bobby said this is for MM pourposes, just any other package like priority with DC would not show step to step like MM does even, though I wish it did because it would make things alot easier to track Report this Post to the Staff
Morgan Fred Rest in Peace United States 2684 Posts	Posted 08/19/2006 8:37 pm Waaaaiiiillllll, nuts. Wishful thinking on my part. Thanks all! Fred Report this Post to the Staff
bobby131313 Forum Dad United States 24170 Posts	Posted 08/19/2006 8:44 pm Oh, and by the way, my Postmaster told me not to tell anyone that. So shhhhh..... Shop CCF Members on eBay. Report this Post to the Staff
Morgan Fred Rest in Peace United States 2684 Posts	Posted 08/19/2006 9:34 pm I have a generally low opinion of Postmasters and Postal Clerks with certain notable exceptions (Brooktondale, NY; Guilford, NY). They seem to be the classic examples of the Peter Principle: promotion to the level of one's incompetence. I have been chasing down my mail all summer long and probably will be for some weeks after I return to my desert home; much of my mail went into a continuous loop between Salome and Flagstaff, AZ with my forwarded mail being forwarded back to my home PO and then reforwarded again. And, a certain Postmistress of a certain Washington State PO on a certain island is in Federal prison for embezzlement after unabashedly proclaiming to the world how great she was as a postmaster. On the USPS plus side, my NY home Postmistress has never failed to forward my mail long after the forwarding expiration date, has faithfully emailed me to let me know it was on the way. The best Postmaster, however, is also directly related to numismatics. Charlie Voorhees, PM of Brooktondale, NY was also a world class Morgan collector. By the mid-1960s, he had the complete Morgan series including the 1895 Proof; his collection numbered in the thousands of Morgans. He planned to retire early, cash it in, and live a quiet life unhindered by finances. He had a mild heart attack about 1970, went into the hospital for by-pass surgery, and died on the operating table. Report this Post to the Staff
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