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Quote:Originally Posted by xkonk Did you ever get an answer to this? I just got this message on a package. I'm planning to call tomorrow or the next day (Sun or Mon) to find out what I can. This is for a box I sent to a company ... so, they aren't going to "pickup" the package; they'll just wait for it to arrive, if it does. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by poka I don't think it is surprising that the PR folks for the USPS decided the head of the USPS is doing a bang-up job. Considering all the reports going the other way, the unprecedented delays, the very public destruction of multi-million dollar custom machinery (who cares if it was only used 30%? If it was used, then it was useful. And it was already paid for, so they save nothing for destroying it) and judges of all political persuasions reversing the decisions to slow down the mail .... well, I'll take that over six cheerful bullet points on the USPS's own website. The USPS employees are doing an amazing job during an unprecedented crisis. I echo others' sentiments that they should be getting all the support they need from Congress, to run effectively in the way they are being told to run: as a vital government service. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Tedsaid What was referred to in the statement is the facts about # of boxes removed. |
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 If the viagra is working you should be well over a 9.8.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Tedsaid Short answer - yes, it eventually made it to the right place. Long answer - I tried calling, a few times, both the 1-800 number and the number for the post office where it was stuck. The local place never picked up. The 1-800 number was unhelpful because there was no option to talk to someone, although it was kind of funny that in the tracking part of the automated menu it would tell me that it was located in Florida but tell me the address and hours for a post office in Kentucky (where it was supposed to be) where I could pick it up. Obviously all the information was there, it just needed someone to look at it. I think the eBay buyer may have gone to his post office and asked someone about it, but I'm not sure. Eventually the package was marked as 'delivered' in Florida, and at that point I had a new option in the 1-800 menu to talk to someone. So I had a long wait on the hold but got to talk to someone who was very nice and immediately saw that something was wrong. She couldn't do much but she opened a case for me, and later the same day I got a call from my local post office where I had sent it from. They also immediately saw that something was wrong and marked the case for the office in Florida and also noted it for their supervisor (or elevated it somehow). In a day or two the tracking updated to show that it was heading in the right direction and then it made it to the buyer soon after. Calling people was a bust for me until the package was marked as delivered, so if you don't want to wait I guess I would suggest going to your post office and having them look up the tracking. Once someone can see that it's in completely the wrong place, they can flag it for you one way or another. |
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| I work at Fedex Express and my brother is a supervisor at UPS. Both companies around here simply couldn't hire drivers. No one was applying and the ones that did failed drug tests and/or background checks. It wasn't temporary work either, permanent positions. My brother was trying to get me to go to UPS. they pay a hell of a lot more but I wasnt giving up 5 weeks of vacation. I'm sure USPS had the same problems plus way more smaller packages to deliver. I'm glad this Christmas rush is over. Instead of 14 hour days now I can go back to 12 hour days. | ||
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| Three parcels ordered through eBay around Dec. 9th and shipped "Priority Mail" - all three unaccounted for and "in transit, arriving later than usual". One arrived in Cleveland, OH on Dec. 17th as the last update, one in Chicago on Dec. 16, and one in New Jersey on Dec. 18. No updates since. Shipped my Santa gift out on Dec. 21st via UPS Guaranteed for only $20+, and it arrived Christmas Eve. I'm thinking the USPS is going to be losing A LOT of business to FedEx and UPS in 2021. |
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| A book I won in an eBay auction on November 29th, and was shipped to me via Priority Mail on December 1st (with an original expected delivery date of 12/4), arrived yesterday after 3 PM. It’s not an expensive book at all, but I am grateful it arrived in one piece after it’s lengthy and arduous journey. I believe there’s only one other package that I am waiting for that was shipped to me several weeks ago. Hopefully that will turn up soon and in good shape also. I almost sent in some books last week to take advantage of the CBCS fast past promo that expired on Christmas, but did not want to chance shipping anything valuable until these delay issues get better. I will probably pass on the other December promo for the same reason - better safe than sorry to just save a few bucks. | ||
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| @Paint_Monk I for one have a hard time wanting to do business with UPS and FedEx because their policies of not accepting packages or doing business with a number of companies during the last few months has helped to greatly inundate USPS when they were already struggling. I know two hubs here in Michigan are barely functioning from shortage of employees able to work or even wanting to in the case of Detroit. I get it that UPS and FedEx are private and have the ability to deny service whereas USPS cannot. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by xkonk I'm not sure it IS in the wrong place. It was going to MCS and it says, "Your item arrived at the ARLINGTON, TX 76010 post office at 12:45 pm on December 26, 2020 and is ready for pickup." It also says it was out for delivery before that, but I don't know why they wouldn't have left it. Even if no one is there on Saturday (?), they must have a place for packages. And it didn't require a signature (though they might have thought it did, since I used a CGC box). Anyway, I'll try to call someone tomorrow, see if I can get some more information. But it isn't really late yet, compared to some ... I just mailed it on the 23rd, and the expected delivery date is tomorrow. |
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If the viagra is working you should be well over a 9.8.
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xkonk private msg quote post Address this user | |
| @Tedsaid I've had that happen once or twice, including for CBCS. It was delivered a day or two later. I actually have something waiting for CBCS right now that says "alert! couldn't deliver". And of course you couldn't; you tried to deliver to a business on Christmas Eve. I'm not concerned. Might take longer than usual to shake out given the circumstances, but I imagine it'll get there Monday or Tuesday since they already tried once. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by Tedsaid In some places yes, in other places not so much. I'm pretty sure that various regions have different cultures, different union leadership and different attitudes towards the USPS and their jobs. It's kind of like football teams. Many may start the year with the same potential, but through the adversities of the year the different cultures and personalities will determine success and failure. I imagine these different postal regions have varying cultures and work ethics that were established a long time ago. |
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| I don't know if it is coincidence or not, but after filing two missing package reports, tracking updated 24 hours later on both packages. One was delivered on Christmas Eve and the other yesterday. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by Studley_Dudley That often happens to me, too, but it is impossible to tell if it is the cause, or just "selection bias." I've only done that (filled out the package help form) 3-4 times in the last year and, obviously, only with very late packages that may be about to be delivered anyway. In one case last month, I received 1-2 updates on the "missing package" case I opened *after* the package was delivered. So it appears in that example, the case was unaware the package finally arrived for at least a few days. |
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| My package from Connecticut was mailed on December 10th. The last notice was from the 14th ... until today. Late this morning, I got a notice that it showed up in St. Paul, MN. Then this afternoon, I got an email saying that it left St. Paul. And just now, I got an email that it was at my local postoffice (it serves as a local hub). I might see it tomorrow!!!! | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by Tedsaid If your package is a submission to MCS then they pick up their packages from the PO themselves. Not unusual to get a tracking ready for pickup. MCS typically picks up within 1-2 business days |
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Quote:Originally Posted by poka Good to know! I guess I've sent them a dozen or so boxes directly in the last two years, but never received that message. Most of mine now arrive straight from CGC. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Tedsaid Here is an example https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?tRef=fullpage&tLc=2&text28777=&tLabels=9208890126440312073366 |
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 I had no way of knowing that 9.8 graded copies signed by Adam Hughes weren't what you were looking for.
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| For the most part it seems that my shipments have gotten to their destinations on time. I did get one positive feedback that "the package got there late but it wasn't the seller's fault". That is until today when a customer who purchased a Tomb of Dracula # 1 let me know that his package had been delayed. The tracking seemed normal until December 15th when it left the Jersey City location. After that it says that there is a delay but the package will be delivered. Has anyone else experienced this and is there anything I can do to move things along? |
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 Keep your $6.87 bro... not even saving tax with that.
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| @drchaos I noticed that once I signed up for tracking notifications for some aged shipments, things seemed to start moving again. It could be totally unrelated, but I went weeks with no movement then within a few days of signing up the packages began moving through the system again. With the explosion in Nashville on Christmas, AT&T still doesn't have all the businesses online around here yet. Stores were either closed or cash only this weekend, including the Post Office. | ||
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 Not trying to be an ass since February 12, 2020.
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Wow! I can’t believe it. with all of the COVID mailing shenanigans; it actually happened! I sent books to CBCS with signature required. it was a day late and undeliverable on Saturday (attempted delivery; business closed). Today it was delivered AND signed for! They did it. They delivered a package, found a body, and waiting 5 seconds for a sig🥲 Now see if the recipient was CBCS employee  |
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| By the way, if you go to the Post Office and you are treated well by the teller you should take a moment to open the code at the bottom of the receipt and complete the survey. Odds are that a Post Office employee is servicing someone with Covid probably 3-4 times a day. Filling out the survey is an easy way to recognize someone who is going out in front of the public every day and doing their job to the best of their ability. | ||
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I had no way of knowing that 9.8 graded copies signed by Adam Hughes weren't what you were looking for.
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| USPS must be jammed up. Had a second customer today asking me to fill out the where is my package form. |
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Keep your $6.87 bro... not even saving tax with that.
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| @EbaySeller Amen! I got to hear a lady complain for the 10 minutes I was in line today about a package she mailed on 12/10 that hasn't delivered. She didn't want to hear about the "excuses" of Covid, Christmas volumes, and our local issues in Nashville. I had to bite my mask because they are doing what they can, but she just wasn't hearing it. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by 00slim This was finally delivered today. Better 17 days late than never. |
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If the viagra is working you should be well over a 9.8.
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xkonk private msg quote post Address this user | |
| Dropped off an eBay sale today and the post office was like night and day compared to the last couple weeks. No one was in line, I just went up and handed the box to the person at the desk. A couple of packages that had been languishing (like the one Ed mentioned in the collection thread) made it through on Saturday or today. I think a lot of things will 'suddenly' start showing up this week. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by drchaos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MASAmH6JbWs |
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I had no way of knowing that 9.8 graded copies signed by Adam Hughes weren't what you were looking for.
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Quote:Originally Posted by poka Absolute bullshit. If USPS tracking has no activity for 10 days but the package is still in transit the seller has done his job. 3 weeks to a month with no activity might be another story. Ebay is going to put sellers out of business if they keep this up. |
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| @drchaos In case you have not noticed it ebay has changed the requirement to win an appeal. Before you could win an appeal if the tracking shows delivered. Now ebay has changed the requirement so that it needs to be delivered within the estimated delivery time in order to win an appeal. https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/selling/seller-levels-performance-standards/appeal-defect?id=4871&st=12&pos=1&query=Appeal%20a%20defect&intent=appeal |
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I had no way of knowing that 9.8 graded copies signed by Adam Hughes weren't what you were looking for.
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Quote:Originally Posted by poka I am considering shorting ebay stock. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by drchaos They are making a lot of money. They are no relying on sellers like us. Instead consider to use a different courier during X-mas |
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