Priority mail w/ registered

[Snapolit1]

What a scam. Seller pays for priority service and then tacks on registered mail as an additional service to buyer. Registered mail takes days and days and days. I had a seller ship me something on the 15th "priority" with registered. Last message I got was it was in Denver, CO 6 days ago. What was the payment for priority service supposed to accomplish? Anyone want to file a class action lawsuit?

Sure it will show up . . .eventually.

[joshuanip]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

What a scam. Seller pays for priority service and then tacks on registered mail as an additional service to buyer. Registered mail takes days and days and days. I had a seller ship me something on the 15th "priority" with registered. Last message I got was it was in Denver, CO 6 days ago. What was the payment for priority service supposed to accomplish? Anyone want to file a class action lawsuit?

Sure it will show up . . .eventually.

As much as I like registered mail as it has higher security, I agree. I had something sent to me via registered that hung around my city for 5 days, literally bounced around my delivery address throughout the city. Went from the delivering post office, back to the airport, to compton, back to the delivering post office.... and then got stuck there. Day after day the carrier showed up empty, like Santa Claus without any presents... After the package disappeared in the tracking, I got fed up, went to the post office and low and behold was in the cage.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by joshuanip

As much as I like registered mail as it has higher security, I agree. I had something sent to me via registered that hung around my city for 5 days, literally bounced around my delivery address throughout the city. Went from the delivering post office, back to the airport, to compton, back to the delivering post office.... and then got stuck there. Day after day the carrier showed up empty, like Santa Claus without any presents... After the package disappeared in the tracking, I got fed up, went to the post office and low and behold was in the cage.

To be fair, Priority Mail on it's own isn't a whole lot better nowadays. I sent a Priority package to the Chicago area a couple of months ago, and it bounced around the area for nearly 3 weeks before it finally got delivered.

[Luke]

It's an insurance issue most likely. For my insurance, I'm only covered up to $2k with Priority Mail. For anything higher than that, I need to use Registered Mail.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

To be fair, Priority Mail on it's own isn't a whole lot better nowadays. I sent a Priority package to the Chicago area a couple of months ago, and it bounced around the area for nearly 3 weeks before it finally got delivered.

Yeah, I sent an item to a private signing event a week before the deadline via priority mail, which was supposed to get from CA to AZ in two days. I missed the event entirely. Took over a week.

[D. Bergin]

Was it high value? I imagine the seller was being extra cautious.

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Was it high value? I imagine the seller was being extra cautious.

He was, and I have no issue with that at all. Just the mail service which collapses with registered mail.

[Snapolit1]

Just irks me because once they take the additional payment for registered the money paid for priority service is effectively money being taken for a service they know full well they won't be able to render. A nullity.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Life is too short.

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Life is too short.

It's not that life is too short, it's that the alternative goes on for a looooooooong time.