USPS question..please help?

Question

My aunt sent me out a letter that has confidential stuff in it, she sent it regular mail. She sent it last friday and today is thursday so it is almost a week later and I still have not recieved it & she had said they did not return it to her . I live in an apartment complex and she said she MAY have put the wrong apartment number on the enevelope so if thats the case would the USPS return the letter to my aunts address or would the USPS keep the letter at their facility awaiting pick-up? Also if she didnt put the wrong apartment number why the heck is it taking sooo long??? Is the USPS known for loosing letters??? and how do I go about tracking down this letter....??

Answer 1

Chances are if your aunt put the wrong apt.# on the envelope that's where your letter went. The post office goes by the address on the envelope not the name. Hopefully, who receives your letter will put it back in the mail & put "return to sender"

Answer 2

Letter Carriers deliver based upon the address unless unless its a regular who's been on the route for some time. Call your aunt and ask her if she remembers what address she put on the envelope and then call the local PO and ask for your carrier and ask him/her to check for the letter. The only reason a letter like that would be held at the office is if the letter was returned to the carrier and the regular was on vacation. A regular carrier would turn around an improperly addressed envelope the same day. Next time your aunt sends you something important make sure she asks for "delivery confirmation" ie tracking. Items which are not replaceable should be sent via registered mail, which requires that every employee who handles the piece of mail must sign for it.

Answer 3

The post office delivers the letters to whatever address is on. If they cannot deliver it and does not have a return address it will go to dead letter office (at the last post office). The post office will open the letter to see if they can find an address. If they can the letter will be destroyed. Any valuables will be kept and auctioned.
Any of value should be sent registered mail or insured. That way there is a record of the mail (track number).

Answer 4

Based from my experience , if the address you have written was wrong , it would have been returned to the sender .

Is your last name or part of your name written on your mailbox ? if so and if the deliverer was not in a hurry , he or she would have placed it in the right box by matching the name with the letter .

In the case of holding letters , you would have gotten a notice stating that a letter is at the MAIN post office and that you can claim it on a certain date.

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

If she put the wrong apartment number on it, then it would go to the other apartment. If the people who live there are good enough not to open it and to put it back in the mail, then shell get it back. If not, she might not.

Answer 6

Never send anything importants USPS unless you get tracking or signature confirmation. If it is lost, not much you can do about it. There is a form you can fill out but without tracking info, I doubt it will be found. Give it another couple of days but if you haven't seen it within 2 weeks, sorry, it is lost.

Answer 7

Call your local post office/postal center and see if they might have it there--sometimes they hold letters if they get damaged or they can't figure out where to send them. Explain what happened--they might have it hanging around for a few days. It hasn't really been long enough for it to get sent out and then rerouted back to your aunt. Sometimes it just takes a while, but they might send it back to her if they can't figure out who to send it to. Usually the postal service is pretty good about sending stuff and figuring out where stuff goes even if it isn't addressed properly, but sometimes it takes them longer than usual.

Answer 8

We recently sent a package in regular mail to my boyfriends mom, and it took almost a week also, but she finally got it. I would check with your local post office to make sure its not waiting for u there, also check with the office of your apartment complex, because bigger packages go to our apartments office. It might be there.

Answer 9

If it was that confidential, your aunt should have tried priority mail with confirmation. And even those can get lost. Good luck, Hon.

Answer 10

First, if she didn't send it a special delivery type, you cannot track it. Second, if it had an apt. # on it and that # exists, that is probably where it went. If it is undeliverable because she had a non-existing apt. # on it, it will be returned to her undeliverable, but that can take awhile. GOOD LUCK!