Just to echo what Bruce said... After a recent auction win it was requested I should sign for my posters due to a lot of theft. I did. The package was left without my signing anything! So it really doesn't matter what you want or do. I used to have great faith in the post office not so much anymore.
And as a side note I went to my local PO last Saturday. A sign said the windows were closed due to technical issues. I asked my mail carrier about it and she told me what I truly suspected all along... *THERE WERE NO EMPLOYEES AVAILABLE TO WORK!* How that's possible I don't know. This is a very busy post office location. I can only imagine it's going to get worse. On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 7:07 PM Bruce Hershenson <brucehershen...@gmail.com> wrote: > The U.S. Post Office has gone DRASTICALLY downhill the past few years, and > that slide is accelerating dramatically. Packages sent Priority Mail now > routinely take a week or more to arrive in the U.S., as opposed to 2 to 5 > days a couple of years ago. > Packages sent outside the U.S. fare far worse. They often take a month or > more, and usually there is no tracking during that time (or sometimes false > tracking of places it has never been). > But worst of all is the DAMAGE. Anyone who has ordered from my company, > eMoviePoster.com, KNOWS we use the strongest tubes of anyone. Until last > year, we only had two or three damaged packages each year, out of the > 25,000 or so we send each year! > In the past year, we have had around ten times that. It still is a VERY > tiny percentage of the total we send (around one tenth of one percent), > which is a tribute to how strong our tubes and boxes are), but when the > rate goes up ten times after 30 years of no change, you KNOW they are doing > something VERY wrong in how they handle tubes and packages. > We sent a tube back in March. The customer received it crushed, and worse > yet, the mailman dropped the crushed tube off at the customer's front door, > rang the doorbell and left. > He later that day received an email saying that he had accepted the tube > and had signed for it, and that was a lie (the customer has the ring video > doorbell that proves otherwise). > He sent us pictures of the crushed tube, and we filed the claim. First the > Post Office said we needed pictures of the damage, and we sent pictures of > the tube and damaged posters. > Next they said we needed to prove the customer had paid what we said. We > sent a copy of the invoice, and they said that was not sufficient. We sent > the a copy of his payment, and they accepted that. > But now they sent a new letter stating they looked at our images of the > crushed tube and have determined we did not use a strong enough tube, so > they are denying our claim, and suggest we double tube all orders in the > future! 🙁 > I KNOW we used a tube stronger than 99% of the tubes anyone else does, and > that they simply never want to pay any insurance claims, even though they > love taking the insurance money. > > So the Post Office crushed a super-strong tube, lied about the customer > signing for it, delayed my rightful claim for months, and then denied it > and told me to use double tubes! > I am thinking a FAR better suggestion is that we switch ALL our business > (15,000 to 25,000 tubes and packages a year) to UPS and Fed Ex! > > If anyone else reading this wonders WHY the Post Office is going broke, > the above surely is instructive as to why. And please feel free to share > this with anyone and everyone who ever mails or receives any packages or > tubes through the USPS. 🙁 > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
