USPS lost 50 item shipment of mine. WTF?

[ebaystealth1974]

Originally Posted by Kajunrook

It has to be a certain amount of time before they will track a missing item.

45 days for first class...

[ebaystealth1974]

Originally Posted by james13v

I don't see why how it was initially scanned, would have an effect on delivery?

That's what I'm thinking. I've printed labels, then went out of town for the weekend and mailed them there. Hours away.

And I'm sure everyone in the world has printed return labels with their own address as both addresses.

Never had a problem with either. Or maybe I'm not understanding the exact scenario?

[agent006140]

Originally Posted by prowake

Just realized a shipment I dropped off last Wednesday containing 51 individual items all disappeared.

All items were accepted and show leaving the post office I used, but nothing after.

Anyone experience this? not sure what to do... value of all this was in the thousands.

if all 51 shipments show no further tracking and you said they are going to different zipcodes,then your post office is the one which has to find out what happens,did you turn these shipments to a clerk at the counter?
or you just drop off thru a slot and someone at the back scanned each one?
They may still be with your post office,somewhere in a corner ?
or fell off a truck?
or a frustrated worker just trashed them all,do you have enemy at the local post office?
I would go to the post office and speak t o a supervisor,ask them to look around ?

[agent006140]

Originally Posted by Kajunrook

It has to be a certain amount of time before they will track a missing item.

all undeliverable mail ended up in a place in California,kind of like the mail morgue where mail goes to die?
But in his case,they could still be in the post office. or left the post office but never make it to the next facility.

[james13v]

Originally Posted by agent006140

all undeliverable mail ended up in a place in California,kind of like the mail morgue where mail goes to die?
But in his case,they could still be in the post office. or left the post office but never make it to the next facility.

ok, and that has what to do with the comment you were replying to?

[prowake]

still no movement

I was able to open missing mail inquiries on all. has to be done 7 days after the last "movement"

this wasn't the usual post office I use and I did drop everything through the mail drop inside, but I did speak to the person who handled all 51x items and she remembered placing everything of mine into their own separate little tub.

postmaster spoke to the driver and nothing out of the ordinary was recalled. all "tubs" get loaded onto a "cage" and that cage is loaded into the truck then unloaded at the hub. she's still waiting to speak to the hub manager who's apparently on vacation this week.

I have since replaced all of the items, with the exception of a few that ran out of stock. and since this lovely coronaviru is rampant, I have no idea when im going to be able to restock

so either I start using flat rate priority shipping and file claims on all unscanned/missing parcels... or keep rolling the dice. YEARS of doing this, this has never happened. I ship about 500x units a month... $3 in shipping compared to $7... hmm.

[qdo]

This has happened to me before. The carriers are supposed to scan the packages at every loading point, this does not always happen. The packages will probably show up as delivered with no other tracking information in between.

[james13v]

Originally Posted by qdo

This has happened to me before. The carriers are supposed to scan the packages at every loading point, this does not always happen. The packages will probably show up as delivered with no other tracking information in between.

Now that, is an understatement lol

[prowake]

update: tub was found 2 weeks later, at the hub. Contacted customers, but most aren't responding. what a loss. oh well

[agent006140]

can yu ask them to return them?

[ebaystealth1974]

Originally Posted by prowake

update: tub was found 2 weeks later, at the hub. Contacted customers, but most aren't responding. what a loss. oh well

Just chillin, with no intentions of being delivered?

[prowake]

Originally Posted by agent006140

can yu ask them to return them?

I have asked the customers, USPS would not return them

Originally Posted by ebaystealth1974

Just chillin, with no intentions of being delivered?

yep. likely got stuffed somewhere, got a tub placed on top of it, im not sure, my packages are very small so I imagine someone put an empty tub on top of it and put it somewhere stupid

[james13v]

Originally Posted by prowake

I have asked the customers, USPS would not return them



yep. likely got stuffed somewhere, got a tub placed on top of it, im not sure, my packages are very small so I imagine someone put an empty tub on top of it and put it somewhere stupid

wait.... they are still going to deliver the packages???

[assad]

i had this same situation with myhermes it was around 70 parcels luckily most did end up getting delivered but still like 6 7 never did get delivered.

[ebaystealth1974]

Originally Posted by prowake

yep. likely got stuffed somewhere, got a tub placed on top of it, im not sure, my packages are very small so I imagine someone put an empty tub on top of it and put it somewhere stupid

So, what happens to the packages now?

For $3500 worth of product, they can just hold that shiit right there and I'd come and get it!

[prowake]

Originally Posted by ebaystealth1974

So, what happens to the packages now?

For $3500 worth of product, they can just hold that shiit right there and I'd come and get it!

yeah they just acted like nothing happened. my local post office never got a response from the hub about the ordeal. so now my customers have 2x the product

[ebaystealth1974]

Originally Posted by prowake

yeah they just acted like nothing happened. my local post office never got a response from the hub about the ordeal. so now my customers have 2x the product

[james13v]

Originally Posted by prowake

yeah they just acted like nothing happened. my local post office never got a response from the hub about the ordeal. so now my customers have 2x the product

I'd raise such a stink lol. I've had the cops called on me by the manager, after an issue that was way less than that.

[agent006140]

when an USPS claim was denied,we can appeal by writing to an address in Washington DC,the address is shown in the denial letter.
In your case,may be it is worth your while to speak to the manager at your local USPS office and then write to appeal?