USPS Caution Breaking and Entering Packages

Not a coincidence I assume but I sent a small package to another member and he reported that the package was open when he got it and that if I had not taped the items down they would be on the postal room floor or in someones pocket.

Then today I got a package from another member with all the corners lifted and peeked under. Thanks to the pieces being taped down they were not able to shake them out.

FWIW

Jeff inventorying the duct tape.

 

Report it to the postal inspector, they take this stuff seriously and if enough reports come in they will do a sting operation and nab the miscreants.

 

Yeah report. I hate the fact that it already takes forever for the package to get somewhere but not with all the items inside is a whole different ball game. First they say don't mail currency, next it will be don't mail anything over $20 value.

 

Well Jeff, I think that the constant here is your Post Office...

But that is just the old cop in me...

 

Yah. You have a point. I'll make a call tomorrow. The package I got looked like more than one person shook it. How 'bout yours? Fresh damage or was their dust in the tracks so to speak? I've done a little tracking my own self.
Plus my Post Office has like three people in it. I'll still make the call.

Thanks.

 

No the end had been forced open and the the box was deformed where someone had forced their fingers up in there probing the contents.

I did not notice if there was debris there, but if any items were loose, they were lost. I did get two business cards.

 

My Dad mailed a package UPS in a plastic crate ,and when the buyer received the package it was in a box. Strange? This was a plastic shipping crate. Item was then damaged do to bad packing. It's a great world we live in.

 

USPIS takes Theft From The Mails very seriously!

Several Christmases back a worker in the main post office took home a package containing a fruitcake that had fallen off the conveyor system and was destroyed.

Postal Inspectors put her in jail.

 

Whats amazing is that the post office managed to destroy the fruitcake. You ever tried to cut or bite into one of those?

 

Well, the package was destroyed; no report as to the condition of the fruitcake itself.

 

O.K. I can't help it.....when I was in Viet Nam my mother sent me a package. In it was a commercial fruit cake package. She knew that I hated fruit cake. Good thing she was out of range until I opened the "fruit cake" to discover my favorite prune cake with chocolate frosting. She thought it was pretty funny.
We CRAVED chocolate. I'm still mad but the cake though about a month old was good.
You brought it up.

I assume what they are looking for is cash. I imagine those little boxes are just right for shipping ill gotten gains.
Best advise, tape it down and tape the h out of the package.
Jeff

 

Honestly, $60K a year to be a clerk, with great benefits and 20 year retirement and you still feel that you must steal? Anybody that is that much of an ingrate needs to go to jail.

 

I'm not even seeing 60K stable a year.

 

Go to the local Postmaster and report it.

I have a ton of restaurants around... Some will open my mailbox to put their stuff in. This gets me VERY heated as the ONLY people allowed there are me and the postal delivery person. I complained to my local Postmaster who shrugged it off.... I had to escalate it wth emails up the chain to get some action. The only person worth a hoot is my good looking postal delivery woman... She's aces.... And tells me that the rest are all pretty much low grade morons... Which I already knew by my experiences with them.

I used to ship my laptops via USPS until two turned up missing. They were insured but the delivery persons (In 2 different states) did not obtain the needed signatures. So the people asked for a refund via Paypal. Paypal stopped my money going to my checking account to give the refund! THEN... The USPS tried to decline my claim... Because there was no signature! (Morons!) So... I made a counter-claim and asked to either see a signature or send me a check for the insurance. I eventually won both... But it took months to get my money... Paypal.... Even though they saw that I did everything right STILL refunded the money to the customer. In one case... I think the woman who purchased the laptop was in cahoots with the mails person based upon my conversations with her....

I only ship UPS or FedEx now. Sometimes Priority Mail on the small stuff... But I invest HEAVILY in packing tape, bubble wrap and packing peanuts. You could litterally throw one of my laptop packages off of a building top and it would bounce!

(No Rob... I'm not making a video about that!)

 

Frankly, I will be glad when they junk the USPO. A highly paid sinecure full of some of the smuggest and most untouchable Federal workers I have ever seen. I have dozens of stories about this agency that are all negative, specially in a large city like Atlanta.

I remember years ago one the offices here had a torn and tattered, I mean shredded, US Flag that flew day and night, rain and shine, above their office. I asked them to change it many times and finally the Post Master told me, "We don't have too many here that care for that flag as you do. You are lucky that it is up there at all."

I did not stop screaming until I go the ear of one of our Senators, who resolved the problem that week.

Keep in mind when dealing with Federal agencies, that many times a complaint will be ignored. That is why I build a document trail and get names. If I have to I go to the Inspector General for that agency whose job is their oversight.

That usually gets some action.