sent my motoplat to UK Bradford ignitions. they fixed it sent it back, sent me the track number as well. I received a USPS tag and signed it for front door delivery. I never got the package..... USPS says they delivered it..........Im trying to maintain composure and will visit the USPS office for answers....CAZZZZOOO. Cazzo.
Did you hear about the recently settled lawsuit where USPS was falsifying records claiming that lost packages were delivered? or maybe that was UPS or both.
I've had very good luck with USPS getting packages delivered. Very few missing packages in nearly 9 years of shipping stuff. The one missing package that I can recall was a set of rad braces sent to a customer. Tracking said it was delivered and he spoke with the post man who recalled setting it on the doorstep. Best we can figure is someone swiped it off the doorstep before he got home. Maybe ask around the neighborhood to see if anyone saw anything. Sorry man, that sucks big time. Not like you can run down to 7-11 and get another.
I may have told this story before (at least at some time on some website), but a few years back, I ordered an expensive (400 dollar) helmet from some on-line supplier. It was sent out UPS. I had been out for the day and was coming home shortly after dark. I have to drive up an easement to get to my house. As I got about the third of the way up the easement, I spotted a cardboard box sitting in the weeds along the side of the pavement. People drive up this easement all the time and sometimes dump trash along the road, so I stopped and got out of the truck to pick up the box. Much to my surprise, it was sort of heavy and seemed to be sealed. I flipped it over and pointed the shipping label at the headlight beam from my vehicle. Sure enough, it was the package from the supplier that contained my 400 dollar helmet! What ever possessed the driver to dump my package along the edge of a deserted easement, not even within sight of my driveway is beyond any rational thinking. I called UPS up and gave them quite a dissertation on business practices.
Not sure of why I didn't track it. I track every delivery like a hawk, these days. Maybe they didn't give a tracking number or....I did track it as delivered....don't know.....it was several years ago. I can't remember
Looks like my asshat of a postal worker delivered your package too. I ordered something a while back and this is how I received it. Door open, rubber banded to it in the rain. Not only was the package and contents a soggy mess, the rain poured in the open mailbox and soaked all my bills, magazines and junk mail ( that part didn't bother me too bad, other than it was shredded by the time I picked it off the bottom of my box ) Most businesses would be ashamed after such douche bagery, but they could care less.
still composed left a nice note to the actual mailman for any info he can add in my mailbox today and will visit the post office as well, I have only spoken with 2 USPS folks on the phone and they said they show it delivered.....my head bang is that now Im kicking myself for not driving over and picking the thing up. Oh and I emailed the good folks at Bradford to keep an eye out for any salvage trials ignitions........
The post office is staffed by some pretty lousy folks these days. I sent a package to my honey recently containing some needed electronic stuff and her passport. Sent it priority mail with a healthy amount of insurance. I tracked it and saw that it kept circling through the local postal facility. Finally went in and asked the desk guy what was up. All he did was go to the website and tell me what i already knew. He then gave me a number to call that he said was for the sorting facility, which even though it was in the same building, might as well been on Mars for all he was concerned. I called the number several times and it just rang and rang and no voice mail. Went back inside and told the doofus that nobody answers. He just said, sorry that's what they tell me to do when this happens and that he could not and would not help me. Fast forward after several more attempts to call what appeared to be the official USPS go f*** yourself number, I ended up filing a claim and investigative case with the postal service. I got a call from the post master from the office where the package was going telling me he was sending and email to the sorting facility to tell them to quit running it through the machine and manually put it on a truck like they should have 13 scans ago. So it took one guy in Florida to tell a whole regional sorting facility how to do their job. Nice huh? Best of luck Robert.
My worst experiences have been with FedEx. Actually a 100% failure rate. Lost, damaged, late, and they act like its normal. I now will not deal with a vendor for anything if they must ship FedEx.
I think like any franchise or big company it depends on the local manager and supervisor. It's kinda like a McDonalds I went in that the floor was so greasy it was hard to walk to the counter to place an order without busting my ass, all it takes is a manager who gives no shits.
finally cornered my carrier he was away on vacation, he told me it appears they returned to sender- better than losing it!! so the sender has been notified to keep an eye out for the package , hope this is true.
I know this is another of my long winded, detailed stories but !! Don't feel bad. Everyone on my street and the next few blocks over have been having all our USPS mail taken from our mail boxes or show up on the backs of the trunks of our parked cars, on the rear pickup truck bumpers, propped up on the bumper against the back doors of my conversion van and in the beds of our pickup trucks some day's later. Or even blowing around as far as a block down the street. We are actually lucky if it rains and it sticks to our own concrete driveways if left on the trunks of our cars and it just blows a few feet away from the cars parked in the car ports. Keep in mind this a residential neighborhood. I personally have kept a chronological history of this for over 16 months once I figured out what was going on exactly. This has been happening on my street for over 2 years now. You see I have a neighbor just 3 doors down in his late 50s with "Downs Syndrome", his parents past away several years ago, He still lives alone in the same house. He is legally cared for by his older Sister about the same age. She works about 60 hour weeks and is hardly ever there. The guy stands out in the driveway and shoots hoops with a basketball all day long and roams the streets at 2 in the morning bouncing his basketball. Which is nearly inseparable from him. I can't say enough about who ever thought of the idea and bought him the basket balls and hoops as it keeps him occupied. If you can get past the 1:00 am spring time, trying to sleep with your windows open time of the year when you hear this going on and him walking the streets dribbling his ball. He is truly a savant at playing. I've watched him swoosh it several times in a row from across the street. He has one of those plastic return shoots for the ball you can aim its direction and it will send the ball back out to you. So Let me tell you at basketball he will likely whip a Pro ball player at his own game 1 on 1. But he has a mischief side to him. He likes to take the mail. Although he says he is helping out the neighbors to the Postal Investigators. The USPS will not arrest him or prosecute him for tampering with the mail or stealing it outright. And of course we as neighbors don't know what we are missing either. "Its missing" so how would we even know what we didn't get. I've had several other companies and vendors undelivered packages taken from my porch. I caught him one night in my carport against the block wall and one of my cars at about 11:00 PM bouncing his ball off the side of the windows side glass and door of my $60,000, Custom Tubbed '66 Plymouth Belvedere. I was not happy. I turned the carport flood lights on and yelled at him and this made the existing "mail missing" problem even worse. His Sister directly admitted to me he has piles of neighbors mail in the house and she finds piles of it all the time when she shows up to look in on him. It's in the house and she tells him it's wrong and that he needs to return it. She is scared to death of him. He gets belligerent to her and will hurt her. She can't get through to him. She says there are some local counselors who can talk to him get through to him and maybe get him to understand but that hasn't worked either. Or she hasn't set up any such counseling? Who Knows? I have filed many Formal complaints to the USPS and photographed him going through the mailboxes several times. I've been Interviewed directly by the USPS Postal Investigators twice who have come here and they talked to his "Legal Guardian" his "Sister" who claims she has no responsibility. She just breaks down and starts crying. So they feel sorry for her and him and have let this go on for well over a year knowing who it actually is. I'm the one who figured out who it was in the first place as he's only 3 doors down. The Postal systems solution: They are eventually going to pour slabs of cement and mount groups of postal boxes around the corner down at the end of our developments streets for us all to have to walk to. We've all had boxes either on the edge of the street or up on the front of the house for over 55 years since these homes were built. Which they have of course delivered to, daily for some 55 years, Just so we can get our mail. They are going to request we remove the individual postal boxes, They are going to move all the new Postal service boxes down the street like they do out in the rural areas and their plan is to give each homeowner 3 keys. They say the boxes are going to be big enough to put a fair size parcel in as well. All this to make the postal carriers job easier for one and to keep from getting the complaints. Problem is that hasn't happened either. To have the city pour a slab on the corner they must get permission from the property owners and a variance to do so as the land is owned right out to the rain gutter and edge of the streets by all of us. So that is a problem too. Meanwhile I was leaving out of the driveway the other day on Friday to take a ride and here again, for about the 300th time is 2 pieces of my mail laying out in the middle of the street. My Mail box is closed. I checked the mail the night before and retrieved my mail from the box. When I was leaving Friday about 2:00 pm the mail hadn't been delivered yet that day on Friday and the post marks on the pieces laying out in the street were post marked well over a week before. then there was mail in my box when I got home from riding about 6:45Pm. I've actually picked up mail off the back of my parked Plymouth and walked 18 ft. to find mail in my box not 10 minutes after the carrier drove by my house and made a delivery on my day off. Thinking WTH? and guess who is shooting hoops 3 doors down. The mail carriers when stopped or talked to, have no idea what is going on? Also the mail was delivered by an alternate carrier that day much earlier than normal. Same thing as always. I was told directly by the USPS Investigators that they only give 1 warning to people who mess around, steal or tamper with the mail and they are then arrested regardless of the circumstances. This individual needs better supervision and has no concept of how to pay the bills or take care of a 3 bedroom home by himself and the Postal Service says he will be released and they would likely drop any of the charges anyway because of his situation. This has been going on for too long and the USPS service won't do or hasn't done anything about it. I've gone paperless on all my bills and pay 100% of my bills online just to be sure. But getting packages is always a risk on my street the last 2 years. Sorry about the long story but this is all the facts and the details of the USPS and Rules, Regulations and Federal Statutes do not apply to particular individuals. This fact needs to be exposed.
We have those community boxes on the corner. The good thing is they lock, however they are a little smaller in volume compared to a regular curb side box. Perhaps you could get a locking type box in the interim? They have a decent size slot yet too narrow for a hand to fit in.
Had this problem also, Got a locking mailbox the type that lid is locked but mail went into slot where as I had to use a key to get mail out. For packages made a larger box that when lid closed it locked also. This had a 1' bolt running thru the wall thru into the box. Problem solved. Many years ago I had a problem at my shop when at night dumpster divers would dig thru leaving a big mess. My building had couple knockout holes to the side of it I took a 5 gal water fire extinguisher made a nozzle holder to secure it inside the knockout hole rigged a trip wire to the lid, hooked it up to my compressor 120 psi, would take paint off at 5 feet or less, if too close knocked the crap out of them, would get a good soaking out to 20 feet with a good sting. Got some great security camera footage. Later George
wooooo hoooo glory be!!! The package went from here to there and back to here.....I just personally went and picked it up. Now its time to finalize the Beta Zero project...after the Tecate Enduro anyway.
I live in BFE and I park the bikes and quads on the porch... I leave my keys in the vehicles 24/7 lol
