Any advice about a "lost" package

[Aaron Seefeldt]

My suggestion would be to hold tight if you can. I’ve been through this 2 times with USPS, once as a buyer and once as a seller. The card I purchased arrived a full 2 weeks after its “scheduled” delivery date and the supplements I sold (in a poster tube) arrived a month late. They both had tracking #’s and both were lost (temporarily). They both made it but I won’t use usps (for valued items) ever again. It’s my understanding that some items get stuck in the bottoms of the sorting process then all of a sudden just show up. I’m not familiar with eBay’s policy so I don’t know if there’s a time factor before you have to make a claim.

[sb1]

Contact the Postmaster at your local Post Office it went thru. They can provide additional internal tracking and will give far more information than a window clerk.

Also go to the USPS website and signup for alerts for the particular tracking number. Sometimes signing up for the alerts seems to get it back into the mail delivery system.

You can file thru ebay for "item not received" and get a refund, then should it show up down the road, you can let the seller know and make him whole. He would have to file a claim thru the USPS on his end.