USPS Screwed This One Up

[hoosierpipeguy]

One of the tobacco sales I made ended up showing in Limbo. Then both I and the recipient contact USPS multiple times. Package showed up today. I am thinking they damaged the package badly and decided to just let it sit. Then, we started following up and they decided they better send it back. I'm not happy but to be realistic, I've shipped hundreds of packages with USPS and this is the first to be really screwed up.

 

[spearheadbill]

That sux but if I was the reciever of that package Id be fine with you putting it into a ziplock and getting it that way

 

[beef]

how did they even manage that without more damage to the box? (I didn't know spc tins are cardboard. I wonder if there are others out there.)

 

[BigR]

I've had them do the same thing multiple times for various items, but never tobacco. I was told by a postal worker that I know personally that a lot of damaged packages just get set to the side. I've had boxes get delivered that were completely empty boxes that were damaged,items fell out or were removed, and the empty box get delivered that the postal service taped up with no item in the box. One time when I went to the post office to ask about it, they said that I couldn't get money back for shipping fees, because they technically delivered the package.

 

[BlueRidge]

USPS is shambles. not surprised really and that suxx for both of you. Laudis was a constant 2 maybe 3 day delivery to me until a few years ago. now it's a week plus with tracking all over the place if it's updated at all.

 

[keith929]

USPS is shambles. not surprised really and that suxx for both of you. Laudis was a constant 2 maybe 3 day delivery to me until a few years ago. now it's a week plus with tracking all over the place if it's updated at all.

My last few deliveries from SP have come via UPS.

 

[BlueRidge]

My last few deliveries from SP have come via UPS.

smart

 

[Auxsender]

For my experience, I’d take USPS over UPS every single time.
Yeah, I was put way, way out by USPS one time (package to New Jersey took 6 weeks) and I know it could happen again, but like Hoosier, I’ve shipped *many* packages without issue.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Surprised a) they didn’t bother taping over the hole it something, and b) that chunk o’baccy is still there!

It sucks, but glad it turned up. We can gripe and stamp our feet all we want, but I for one am amazed how many parcels (some vendors are better than others) go out and come in every day across this nation/world, the vast majority without incident.
Any lucky lottery winner that has been born and raised in a first world country should thank whatever they believe in for their good fortune, it could be so much worse!

 

[Fuelman]

One of the tobacco sales I made ended up showing in Limbo. Then both I and the recipient contact USPS multiple times. Package showed up today. I am thinking they damaged the package badly and decided to just let it sit. Then, we started following up and they decided they better send it back. I'm not happy but to be realistic, I've shipped hundreds of packages with USPS and this is the first to be really screwed up.View attachment 439031View attachment 439032View attachment 439033

That is to bad. Sorry for your loss. Now I am worried, I’ve got 2 tins of Fires on the Levee coming through the mail.

 

[abecox]

I've been lucky so far with the mail outside of them absolutely destroying a record I ordered once. Though the way things are going it looks like my package with Fires on the Levee will arrive before my Silver Jubilee.

 

[Servant King]

Probably these guys:

 

[mingc]

Par for the course for this time of the year. Lots of inexperienced temp workers to deal with the increase in number of packages. I avoid sending expensive or important stuff this time of the year.

 

[DesertDan]

That is a real bummer.
I hope it all works out.

 

[Skyfall]

I had an expensive box lost in USPS for 2 months before it shows up. Tracking said nothing…… when it magically arrived after I gave up on it, box was beaten to a pulp. The leaf inside survived.

 

[JOHN72]

Truly awful. I'm sorry, my friend Hoosier. It's disappointing.

 

[Sigmund]

USPS has its problems but honestly they to ok most the time.
I ship at least a hundred or more packets a year. One was damaged a couple of years ago,
The lose on a year on average.

Looks like that one got caught in machinery.

 

[BlueRidge]

Probably has a lot to do with your regional sorting and distribution center. My area has seen a maaaasive population increase since 2020 and our local POs simply can’t keep up

 

[Sea Lord]

The verb destroy rather comes to my mind to describe the outcome.

 

[RPK]

Fell off the conveyor system and got caught in the gears and was found when they were doing maintenance on the system.