Did anyone else's tracking show the package being scanned anywhere in AR? Mine was not scanned even
once as it traveled across that state - for the last several days, it was not showing that the item had even been mailed yet!
Apparently none of the postal workers out there know how to work a bar-code scanner?
Anyways, package was processed through sort facility in Fort Worth at 2:12AM this morning, so should have fresh pods tomorrow - Woo Hoo!
BTW, as a result of recent (unrelated) events the last few days, I have lost all faith in the Post Office. I recently purchased an item off eBay, which was shipped using USPS with Delivery Confirmation. Tracking showed package arrived at my local Post Office at 5AM Friday, and was sorted and sent-out for delivery that morning.
Problem is, when I checked my mailbox that evening, my package was nowhere to be found!
Things got even stranger when I checked the "Track & Confirm" site late that night, to see what had happened to my purchase - they claimed that the package had
already been delivered, at ~9PM Friday night! (Mail normally gets delivered here at 2-3pm)
So I went back out and checked my mailbox again -
STILL no package!!!
WTF???!
Mail delivery here is spotty at best, and often delayed, and there has been some suspicion that perhaps the local Post Office considered daily delivery of all the mail here to be "optional".
My best guess is that either the mailman was too busy to be bothered to deliver my package that day (or somebody screwed-up and put it on the wrong truck), and then when they got back that night, realized...
"Holy #^&$! - this package I didn't bother to deliver today has tracking, and was already scanned as having gone out on my truck for delivery today!"
So perhaps not wanting to admit what they had done (and/or damage their or their unit's performance #'s), I'm thinking some postal employee (or their manager?) got the bright idea of filing a
FRAUDULENT Delivery Confirmation late Friday night!!!
:
I was
HOPING that my purchase would "magically" show-up in my mail Saturday. But when I checked, it
STILL had not arrived, and I began to worry that someone might have decided to "dispose of the evidence"???!
But then I noticed a package laying in the dirt about 20' away, way back in the enclosed area where only the mailman goes (you have to squeeze behind the mailboxes just to get there) to deliver the mail. So I went back there to look, and sure enough, there was my package! But all of the mailboxes are locked, so how did it end-up way back there on the ground?
And it wasn't someone trying to steal mail, as my package was still completely intact, and the seal unbroken!
Even weirder, I found this neatly placed back there
AFTER the mailman had come by Saturday, and the package was located so it would have been
in their line of sight directly in front of them in clear view when they proceeded behind the mailboxes to deliver the mail, with the white PayPal shipping label and large bar code
clearly visible!
Luckily, I found my package before a thief did!
Even stranger, when I called 800-ASK-USPS about this, they claimed that someone had actually
SIGNED for the package (it was sent regular First Class Mail, no sig even required, it should have just gone into my mailbox) - so they apparently forged a signature too!!!
I asked for a Postal Inspector to investigate this, I will also be contacting the local Postmaster after this weekend. I believe
VERY STRONGLY that the post office employee(s) involved with this
should face criminal charges, or AT THE VERY LEAST BE FIRED!!!
I do
NOT want people who would do such a thing to be responsible for handling or delivering my mail!!!
If need be, I may put some public pressure to bear as well - the last thing the Post Office wants is a national news story about postal employees "faking" delivery of on-line purchases, right before the start of the Christmas Shopping Season!
The worst part of this is, eBay/PayPal considers a USPS Delivery Confirmation to be "proof" that you actually received a package, so you would automatically loose any Buyer Protection or "Not Received" claim. So if a Post Office employee fakes a Delivery Confirmation to hide their own mistake, and you don't end-up actually receiving the package later, you're basically screwed!
except for the ones I'm trying to overwinter.
, or something else, to help mitigate this?
- GREAT JOB!!!