The mailman just delivered a certified letter stating my package to (campfire member name deleted) is in the Santa Clarita CA sorting center due it leaking, I called their number explained it was a leather holster so it isn't leaking then they decided someones package must of leaked on it...

NOW they are giving a run around saying they now consider it hazmat and can not forward or return it and I have to drive 60 miles to retrieve it!!!

Waiting on a return call from a supervisor that doesn't come it till 5 PM, this should be good!!!

BTW this package was mailed priority mail on Feb 11th and it took this long for them to contact me saying they are backed up from Christmas...this is March!

Had a small priority box coming to me one time and it popped a corner and a few 150gr bullets (not ammo) spilled out. It finally showed up at the PO here. The idiot-phkn' postmaster made a huge scene about how explosive live ammo was and that I'm lucky that I wasn't in deep chit.

**********CAN'T FIX STUPID**********

Wonder if their mother's had any kids that lived! However, UPS has been a thorn in my butt lately. They seem to be taking lessons from USPS! They do set new standards for ineptness and stupidity daily.

May the USPS fall further toward bankruptcy, and just fold up their tent, oh please....

And this has what to do with the classifieds?

And let me tell you the story where I mailed a USPS money order to a member on CF24. Well, the clerk decides he needs the money more than member here. I busted him and he was caught doing it to other customers in tune of $5,000 or more. After having to buy another money order to buy the gun and waiting for several months, the guy (clerk) pays me back, goes to court and gets slapped on wrist with one year probation, that's why the state Atty didn't want to prosecute. After all of that, local new station did a story on it, never got an apology or any cooperation from USPS. For all I know, the guy probably sill has his job back, so word to wise. Follow up and stay notified if you mail anything thru Postal Service. If you'd like more info, will be glad to share as much as you wanna hear. Thanks RC

If you actually typed that question with a straight face, read Creek's posting and think about why this thread is relevant to this forum.

And it's not always the post office's fault...
I just went through a bad deal here (my first) due to a guy sending something half-@Ssed. Nothing nefarious with the seller, he's an okay guy; it was lost due to the label being torn or defaced off.
Guys, the best thing a seller can do when sending an item is WRITE THE BUYER/SELLER's NAME AND ADDRESS ON THE BOX IN MARKER.
Yeah, caps for emphasis.

A box would have to be literally destroyed to not display a large, marker-written address.
A cheesey label can blow off in the wind.

It's also a good idea to put a separate sheet of paper inside the package with the "TO" and "FROM" info printed on it.

I can understand their concern if something hazardous leaked on it.

Still waiting on a box that delivered Monday the 25th according to the tracking info. PO told me there's nothing they can do, and the carrier doesn't remember if he delivered it or not. The house was occupied when the supposed delivery took place. [bleep]. I won't use them.

At least the postmans salary, medical and retirement are paid in full by the taxpayer.

The bottom line to much of the USPS problems are the unions that protect them. My inside sources tell me stories that just make you wonder how anything gets delivered. This happening while they are down from 51M pieces in 2007 to 25M in 2012.

Funny story recently, cashing a postal money order from a deal I did here. I handed the money order (I think it was around $50) to the guy at the counter and asked if he could cash it. He said sure- ran it through his machine, printed whatever they need to in order to deposit it on the back, handed me the $50 and the money order back. I thought, hmmm... that's new... Oh well!

I went home and about 7:00PM I get a knock on the door. It's the postal worker from the counter, just about pleading with me if I still have the money order and can I please give it back to him. Turns out they deposit that money order as a bank would and he was going to have to pay $50 out of his own pocket to cover the difference. Luckily for him I still had it but man- what a strange occurance!

-John

I bought some brass from a member in Colorado, he shipped it on 1/13 priority mail. It arrived a month later. Priority....

Heavens yes, it has to be those rascully unions. We all know it couldn't possibly be the highly overpaid and totally inept management.

I sold something to a guy here who paid me with a usps money order. Went to the bank to cash it and the idiot said it was counterfeit. I didn't see anything wrong with it so the next morning I went back to the post office and asked for the manager. He comes out, looks at the M.O., holds it under some special light and says its fine. I asked why the other guy thought it was counterfeit and his resonse.... "he guy just didn't want to walk to the back and get more money for his register". That was my last experiance with them

[quote=guy57]Heavens yes, it has to be those rascully unions. We all know it couldn't possibly be the highly overpaid and totally inept management. [/quote
That is the real truth of the matter and the real management of the Postal Service is the congress of the United States. They are mandated to deliver everywhere and do it six days a week. When you can't control your schedule and and have to fly a small plane to a remote lake to deliver a few pieces of mail to a couple of houses it's hard to break even. For years the post office has tried to cut back to a 5 day week and stop delivering to remote tiny communities off the road grid but Congress will not let them.
As for a package with a hazmat spill on it they can't forward it and must dispose of it as hazardous waste. That is DOT and EPA law that they must comply with.
I have gotten very good service from the postal service recently and had to stop using UPS as they destroyed half of the packages I sent the last half of last year.

A member here sent me a 350 dollar USPS Money Order over 2 months ago. It was lost in the mail, and we both RAISED HELL trying to track it down... Finally, him being an upstanding guy, he just PayPaled me the money as he had received the scope I sent him a few days after I sent it, and he would have to wait 60 days for the "lost" MO to be dealt with.

Lo and behold, the MO shows up at my Post Office YESTERDAY. WTF.

We got a box delivered to our house just before Christmas, it was a Hewlett-Packard box with my name and address on it, delivered by UPS. I brought it inside and put it in the room off the foyer with all the other stuff that was being delivered for Christmas and forgot about it. I just figured it was something my wife ordered for one of the kids. Last week I walked into the room and saw the box so I asked my wife what it was. She had no idea. So I opened it, it was an HP laptop. Now I gotta figure out who to return it to........

Sometimes it pays to live in a larger Southern city. The counter help here are helpful enough to ask the ones next to them if they have enough $$ to cash my PO if they don't. I have no reason to diss these folks.

Congress is another matter....

Thank goodness it wasn't something, shall we say, of an adult nature!

We should talk about used car salesmen now. They aren't union (or Civil Service), so they are probably a shining example of all that is right with the world.

That makes about as much sense as a jock strap on Brittany Spears.

The post office and it's union minions are paid on OUR DIME.
Last I checked, no 'used car salesmen' are paid for by me, John Q.
I had it out with my 'friendly' post office worker last week. Kudos to Dennis Miller, my PO worker does look exactly like Wilford Brimley!
He wanted to up-charge me because a box equaled 3/8" too much. I respectfully asked him to pull the measuring tape tighter and he copped a total attitude.

I was sick of his attitude and his disrepect. He was so far out of line for the last six months, I had had it!
Now the other workers there are giving my wife [bleep] when she mails stuff there.

Oh yeah, been wondering where that was. They were supposed to deliver it to me long ago. Please ship it off to me .... LOL

Knock on wood,So far I have shipped all over the country items valued from $5.00 to $3000.00 thru USPS,Most was priority shipping, delivery Time and conditions were great,Bob.

I wrote name and address on a small flat rate box with a Sharpie and it still some how got ripped off...... after all the games and paper work with USPS they said they couldnt find the package. even though the box had a tracking number telling them where it came from they still could send it back to me.. This was from me shipping a Campfire member items he paid for.... I refunded his money but was still out the items

+1

I shipped a rifle with the USPS a couple years ago. Sent the buyer pics of the tracking number and recipt.
He contacts me a couple weeks later and says the package never made it. I went to the post office and asked a guy behind the counter to run the tracking number. He did and said it must be held up due to the snow storm up north where it was going. His words "give it a week and it should be there, we never loose a package"

I go back a week later becouse it hasnt showed up and asked him to run it again, same guy. He runs the tracking number and says "looks like we lost it!!!!"

Took me 6 months and an appeal to finally get paid. I had it insured for $600 and got a check for $435

Thats the last time I ever ship a package through the USPS...