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Posted By: T206Monsta
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Posted By: TBob
I suppose she thinks letters signed by George Washington are only worth the cost of the stationery or that postage stamps with upside down airplanes from the early 1900's are only worth 37 cents. What a moron. I have helped two collectors in the last 6 years collect on insurance where cards sent were ripped out of the envelopes or lost. The USPS paid both times. She sounds like she needs a man. Sorry Julie for the sexist comment, but this really steams me... |
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Posted By: Paul
I've never heard this before. My only experience with postal insurance (aside from purchasing it) occurred several years ago. I ordered a large cardboard display piece. I suspect this would qualify as "paper" in your postal clerk's eyes. Anyhow, it arrived folded in half. I showed the postal insurance clerk the item and no objection was raised that it was paper. |
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Posted By: Bill Cornell
USPS insurance is a scam and I refuse to play along any more. My one experience trying to recoup a lost item (sent) was akin to slow torture inevitably ending in death; they wouldn't pay up even when the buyer and I proved that they mishandled the package. $170 and several hours gone into the ether... From now on, I'll bite the postman and let the dog look elsewhere. |
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Posted By: petecld
GO TO ANOTHER POST OFFICE. |
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Posted By: T206Monsta
The only reason I posted it is that this was the first time I ever heard this. I actually try to spread out my visits to various POs in the area. I think her comfort with knowing me a regular prompted her to feel comfortable to "overanalyze her reponsiblity and the USPO rules." Maybe they had a preliminary New Year's Eve Champagne bottle popped in the back. The comment, how can you put a value on it is absurd, of course you can value it. |
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Posted By: Julie Vognar
One of them is a week late, and was sent at the same time as another registered card which arrived. They were sent in separate packages because sender couldn't get enough insurance to insure both in one package. |
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Posted By: Ben
...One was sent on the 19th, the other on the 20th. Both are registered and insured and have tracking numbers. However, the USPS online tracking service hasn't been updated since the day they were registered. |
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Posted By: Tom B.
okay a plug......we scan everything at every stop along the way. And UPS is FAR cheaper than the post office when you have to purchase some insurance. We're 35 cents per 100 bucks, they're $2.00 for the first hundred and a buck up from there.......second day air is a good value for the service........... |
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Posted By: kyle lentine
I encountered this same thing a few months ago. I was shipping some cards off to be graded and the clerk said to you want insurance? I said yes for $4,000. She said do you mind me asking what is in the box. I said some valuable baseball cards. She told me dont waste your money, she works on insurance claims all the time. |
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Posted By: Julie Vognar
For both the card that arrived and the c ard that's a week late, I have tried every day to track them with their tracking numbers, and USPS.com always says it never heard of either of them. |
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Posted By: rod
Just received some large old photos clearly marked-Fragile Do not bend. Naturally, it was folded in half by good old USPS. Bill is right . I have had many deliveries thru UPS with no problems. And they are fast. USPS tracking is a joke. |
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Posted By: jay behrens
Sorry, but anyone that thinks UPS is great and gives a rats arse about your package, is sadly mistaken. 15 years later, I still hold a seriously deep hatered for UPS because of over $100,000 in memorabilia disapearing in a one month span. Investigation of the driver dilvery packages to me. No investigation at all to see who might have opened the packages and emptied the contents. No attempt to make a customer happy. Just a "Here's your check. Now get the hell out of here and leave us alone." |
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Posted By: Tom B.
they paid your claims, unlike what everyone is saying about USPS. Plus a lot happens in 15 years and it's short-sighted to not re-investigate our/their service. Carry that grudge to the grave..........My opinion only......... |
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Posted By: jay behrens
This is exactly the attitude I got from UPS, "Be glad youa re getting the insurance money." Myself and my clients could ahve cared less about the money. 2 one-of-a-kind pieces were stolen. |
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Posted By: rod
I can understand being bitter about losing $100,000 worth of stuff. But I can guarantee you that if a popularity poll on service was done in this area ( N.E. Ohio ), UPS would win hands down. However, I have also heard that USPS service varies a lot regionally.Personally I can' t conceive of shippng $100,000 of stuff with anyone.I'd Probably want to deliver it personally in an armored truck. |
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Posted By: Bill Cornell
Jay- |
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Posted By: T206Monsta
Just to follow up on what I started. |
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Posted By: warshawlaw
who order drinks and one asks for a clean glass. The waiter then comes back and asks which one ordered the clean glass. |
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Posted By: Sandy
I buy and sell Civil War letters, cards etc and normally ship Priority Mail. In the past I've asked for insurance and have received the same reply from the clerk - if it's paper you can't insure it unless you send it registered mail. A friend of mine says it's "ephemera" and they let her insure it. But she sends items book rate (or whatever they call it now). I say it's a collectible and that usually gets past them. |
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Posted By: marcus0202
I will soon enough get to the bottom of all legal issues regarding insruance of baseball cards. In December, I bought a card on ebay for $1700 and the card was insured for the same amount. Sure enough, the card was lost. The sender filed an insurance claim with his local branch. And the claim was lost too! I filed a duplicate claim and teh seller has been very cooperative, giveing me the insurance info and the receipt from filing the claim. In my case, I have no problem proving value as I had just purchased the card. If the branch offices can successfully transport either the original or duplicate claim to St. Louis (so retarded), I will be dealing directly with the USPS Claims Division. It is definitely the case that if I am not persistent with phone calls, follow-up claims, etc., I will never see a dime. By now, I am pretty P.O.'d about the whole experience and am going to latch on to the seat of their pants like an agry pit bull. By that I mean that if my claim is denied, I intend to appeal and then sue the post office (it helps that I'm an atty). If I learn anything interesting along the way, I will post it here. Thanks. |
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Posted By: 823dek
I think that I went to the extreme of proving that the insurance is a scam. Iwas sending 10k + out and just so happened to be conversating w/ a clerk and she to my amazment stated that I would have to prove that the contents were worth 5k ( since it is the maximum) to be compensated and that they would fight me to hells end to prove me wrong ! |
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Posted By: Mark McCleary
The USPS paid my claim for the lost baseball card (actually stolen by a USPS employee, but that's another story) I won on ebay - no problems re. insuring a paper item or not having conclusive proof that the card was actually mailed by the seller. There is a requirement to prove original cost, and I'm not sure how the seller demonstrated that, but perhaps they just accepted my (the buyer's) orignal cost which was evidenced by my ebay invoice and canceled check. It did take 4 months from start to finish, and it took a lot of time and effort on my part to bug USPS employees to do their jobs, but at least the claim was paid promptly once it reached the insurance division in St. Louie. USPS Publication 122 mentions uninsurable items, but does not mention paper items or baseball cards - I think the USPS clerks that say otehrwise are misinformed. |
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Posted By: Halleygator
I have filed an insurance claim with the USPS in the past for a lost baseball card ... and they paid the claim with no hassles. |
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Posted By: Tim Newcomb
The USPS paid off my $400 claim promptly with no problem-- I'd agree that the employees who said that no claims are ever paid are either drastically misinformed or running some obscure scam. |
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Posted By: 823dek
Not everyone has the same circumstance, my cards totaled 10,000.00 + and I had gotten the supervisor involved. |
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