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A few weeks ago I bought a couple of the Marbles adapters listed by Phil99. I sent him a M.O. and he mailed them to me on the 13th of March.After ten days and no package he and I traded PM`s several times.The package got here today 2Apr.
We both agree that we will never send another package without delivery confirmation. Thanks to Phil99 for a good deal and a lesson.
Joe

Buy priority postage online and the delivery confirmation is free.

Plus the postage is a little bit cheaper.

And get insurance on EVERYTHING...they have a REALLY bad habit of mishandling packages.

Im living through the PO waiting game right now on a couple of slings from Bglimpse.

Screw the post office.

Priority only with free delivery confirmation. Don't cheap out and ship by ground. It can take several weeks. Priority with delivery confirmation has never let me down through literally thousands of eBay and other online shipments.

Your right about them mishandling (losing, breaking, etc) packages.

But they are even worse on actually paying on your insurance claim on the package. I know tons of people have gotten screwed by them. We even have a tread on that here on the campfire.

Sent a low end scope to a member and it was lost, Delivery confirmation was the only thing that saved me. I no longer trust them enough to ship without insurance if the item is worht much.

While I am waiting, I should add that I have never had a issue with the US mail in the past.

Ditto what killertaylor said. Hundreds of packages via priority with only one glitch and that was a priority envelope. Now use boxes even for high value payments. 2-4 days max.

Same here with USPS and Priority Mail. Not thousands for me but in the hundreds and not one problem. I do have to say that they've gone up on the fee for a long box.

Ken

Have to say I will only ship USPS for everything. Delivery confirmation is an inexpensive piece of mind. Haven't had a package not arrive yet. I will never use UPS to ship a rifle. They cracked a stock on a rifle I sold and said the box wasn't packed well enough. The shop that received it said he had a similar issue and would not use UPS again.

Heres the deal

If you dont buy Insurance when you ship basically you are
"self Insuring" because ultimatly if your the seller and a big boy you are going to make it right.

Personally I think they do a great job

Figure the amount of packages and letters mailed
Packages packed my millions of different people who have many different ways of packing

Not often do the bobble the ball
You always get your bills dont you?
Hank

How was it sent? Priority or Parcel Post? There is a BIG difference in service standards. Priority is fairly consistent at 2-3 business days while Parcel Post can take up to TEN business days -- TWO WEEKS.

Absolutely, put me in the never had an issue camp. Well a few slow shipments but they always got there.

dealing with a claim right now... has been about 40 days since I made the initial claim... they rejected in within 48 hours b/c they said it was against their rules to ship firearms. I appealed as I did follow all of their rules and they show it as "claim pending" still.

Also waiting to receive a shipment from Roger Biesen with a buttplate and grip cap in it that he sent on March 13th. He did not insure or get delivery confirmation and ultimately I am paying for a second set.

When the adapters didn`t arrive I had two things to fall back on: Phill99`s excellent reputation and a recent experience with a Fleabay purchased scope. That package had delivery confirmation.Tracking the package showed: Two days after shipment from Wisconsin it made it to the mail center in Jacksonville,FL(30 Miles from me).Four days later it was shipped back to Wisconsin....another four days and it was sent south again...Sat at the mail center for another four days and finally made it to a delivery truck and to my mailbox.No wonder the P.O. is in trouble.
Joe

I THOUGHT I had my first lost package just recently when some bullets I shipped to a member here never arrived. Refunded his money and chalked it up as one of those things.
Well, going through a bunch of my stuff yesterday and what do I find but the "lost" bullets!

USPS did deliver a Leupold to the wrong address once and DC showed it as delivered correctly. That created an anxious few days but all turned out fine when a neighbor a few streets away brought the package to the rightful recipient.

Have to totally agree. Sent my neice a birthday card along with some gift cards, took 14 days to get to her when it normally takes 2-3. Sent my brother his along with a replacement for my neice 10 days later and they both got there the same day! What a joke and don't forget, stammps are going up again!

Good thing we have the gov't to help get our health care right especially since they've had over 100 years to get the post office right and still haven't succeeded!!!!!

I have no confidence in the Post office, or should I say postal delivery "persons". Three times prescription medicine mailed for my wife was delivered by kindly neighbors. Once I received pills for a neighbor ten houses away, I hand delivered also. Express scrips doesn't have tracking numbers so they don't know where the medicine is. And I have went to the post office and talked to the supervisor accusing the mail person of being illiterate. That didn't go over too good, but I wasn't happy. If shipping anything will certainly get insurance and tracking, thanks