I jsut can't understand how mail can get lost on it way to be delivered, I think either the mail man or the post master steals what they like. help.
2006-08-20 11:48:45 · 6 answers · asked by Alexikai 2 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
I'm a regular eBay buyer, and I've sent hundreds of payments and received hundreds of packages. I've only had two packages go astray, and both of those times was because the seller got my package mixed up with somebody else's stuff.
I've only had two of my payments mysteriously disappear. Once in Miami. Once in New Orleans. In New Orleans, the problem was (I think) a dishonest employee that the seller had hired, but for Affirmative Action reasons he couldn't easily fire him. The payment that evaporated in Miami might have been postal theft. I'm not sure, though.
There was one other problem. The postal service's mail sorting machines managed to tear open one of my packages of paperback books, and half of them were lost somewhere. I had to reorder a couple of books from another seller.
The successful delivery rate of the USPS for me is about 99.4 percent, which is high enough I suppose.
Edit: I forgot. A bookseller in North Carolina was supposed to mail me a refund check, but it never showed up. Again, I suspect this is a case of dishonest employee(s) of the seller, and not the fault of the post office. The same monkeys who stole my refund had been playing other tricks with my orders. Once they sent me two copies of each book that I ordered, instead of one, and I had to mail the extra books back to the seller. The refund that they later stole was the seller's attempt to reimburse me for my postage expenses to return the books.
2006-08-20 12:00:15 · answer #1 · answered by David S 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
These are facts.
Some postman actually do take things out of envelopes and steal them. One in Coventry I know (2002) was arrested for this. Again - Coventry, 2005 - a neighbour found a large package of post - all dumped over a garden wall. Blackpool, Lancashire - "a postman/men" known to dump post rather than deliver it. Was told this by a girlfriend of a postman there.
This one is a warning - happened to me & have crime ref to prove it. A cheque book taken out of post en route, a signature then forged,and the stupid..xxxxxxx Bank cashed it, throwing the account holder £7,000 into the red. Was told by that high street bank, that sometimes a chequebook will also be taken out of an envelope, a single cheque taken out of the middle, the cheque book put back and it arrives at the house safely. A fraudulently cheque then goes through that person's account. Police don't catch the person, because by the time the address is traced via the bank itself, the Police get to the property and the guilty person has long gone.
Frightening isn't it.
2006-08-20 19:04:26 · answer #2 · answered by Student 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The U.S. Postal Service is a modern miracle. It is amazing that so much mail gets through and such a miniscule amount gets lost.
2006-08-20 18:55:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
ummm no thats not it... they have to go through alot and i mean hell alot of packages and letters and stuff...and ofcourse something will get lost because theres alot even with the tracking they find it wellnot the post office much haha but no they dont steal it lol ihope not thats a big crime tho...lol plus... there just humans like you... no ones perfect...
2006-08-20 18:55:33 · answer #4 · answered by phvxoui 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Probably! You can't trust them!
2006-08-20 19:00:58 · answer #5 · answered by mariana m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the mailman has too much to deliver then he/she will throw away some of it
2006-08-20 18:54:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 6⤋