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Old 03-22-2018, 10:05 AM
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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?

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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.

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Old 03-22-2018, 10:13 AM
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Was it high value? I imagine the seller was being extra cautious.
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Old 03-22-2018, 10:18 AM
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's not that life is too short, it's that the alternative goes on for a looooooooong time.
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it's not that life is too short, it's that the alternative goes on for a looooooooong time.
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It's possible that the sender used Priority packaging and then sent it registered to keep the cost of insurance lower. The extra security of registered would make it a lot slower. Express might have been a better idea if fast mattered a lot, but I've received express packages just hammered before, so I can say it's not always the safest way.
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For me, if any insured item is 2k+, it is more cost effective to use Registered Mail.
Plus, it also supposed to be under lock & key. Just the hassle using the sealed brown tape that's required on all edges.
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For me, if any insured item is 2k+, it is more cost effective to use Registered Mail.
Plus, it also supposed to be under lock & key. Just the hassle using the sealed brown tape that's required on all edges.
The total USPS tracking news blackout for 4 or 5 days in a row on a valuable item is a little unnerving. But I assume it will show. Last time this happened to me all of a sudden I got 9 text alerts in a row and magically it was suddenly down the street.

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I only sell high ticket items in person. I’m to afraid to ship anything over $1k. I’m sure that USPS get’s the job done well most of the time :-)

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It's not just USPS or hobby items. I've had similar problems (crazy routing, lost items, etc) with UPS and Fed also this year and the problems only seem to be getting worse. I think all the delivery systems and services are overstressed.
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