Maggie’s Good Ole USPS
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We had a customer that had the same issue - he called the Postal Inspector for our area and advised them that it involved a firearm - and miraculously - a couple of hours later it was found and continued on it's delivery route.
Their employees have about the same attitude as DMV employees there is never a sense of urgency, they know they can't be fired, and they don't give a fuck!
What about signature delivery? After a certain amount of insurance value it has to be signed for but I thought all firearms required adult signature delivery.
USPS lost a barreled action of mine. It went into the ATL distribution center and never came out on tracking. There's a lot of talk about thefts in there. I called PO inspector, made a police report, put in multiple requests to find the package and nothing happened. They denied my insurance claim twice until they approved it the third and what they consider "the last time". I have multiple alerts set up if google / gunbroker / etc ever see it being sold.
My personal opinion is that anything labeled with "gun and pawn" or something similar that is gun size has a huge red target on it for theft. I believe it was assuredly stolen and probably trashed after the thieves realized it wasn't an AR or other already put together gun.
My personal opinion is that anything labeled with "gun and pawn" or something similar that is gun size has a huge red target on it for theft. I believe it was assuredly stolen and probably trashed after the thieves realized it wasn't an AR or other already put together gun.
I just had a $100 package go missing for 3 weeks. Sent the customer a replacement. Put in an insurance claim and boom it was delivered to my customer two days later. Fortunately the customer was honest and sent it back.
Had pretty much the same thing happen with a vortex razor. Ins claim denied because it was delivered to the lost mail center in atl. Few weeks later box shows up at house just like it was shipped. Figured there was a brick in it instead of the scope but it was the scope undamaged.
Still got reports “we are still looking for your package”. I hate usps
Anytime I’ve shipped to a FFL that had tactical, gun, etc in the name… I’ll just cut it short. If I’m shipping to “Joe blows firearms and ammo” it’s going to “Joe Blow FA”
USPS is incompetent and inefficient on a good day and malicious on a bad one. When shipping anything meaningful, I avoid them like the plague. Their pkg tracking system seems to have been designed as a means to create more socialist gov't jobs while appearing to provide similar features to FedEx and UPS. Unlike the FedEx and UPS systems that track all vehicles and packages in real time, the USPS tracking systems seems to be staffed with a bunch of DEI hires who are expected to manually update the system from time to time but instead spend more time f##king around instead of working. When an item is shipped via the Post Office, the tracking number is generated and it rarely gets updated again until two or three days after the package is delivered. Apparently, their tracking system is only supposed to give the customer whose package was lost, damaged or stolen, a means of getting a nice form letter from the Post Office informing them that they are unable to find your pkg and are still looking for it.
I recently had a pair of rifles shipped to my local FFL dealer for transfer via UPS. I was able to track their location daily and on the day of delivery, was given a proactive notice that the box would arrive that day between 11:00-11:15am. I literally, walked into the store as the UPS guy was leaving. I will pay extra for that every time.
I recently had a pair of rifles shipped to my local FFL dealer for transfer via UPS. I was able to track their location daily and on the day of delivery, was given a proactive notice that the box would arrive that day between 11:00-11:15am. I literally, walked into the store as the UPS guy was leaving. I will pay extra for that every time.
I just checked online and it was delivered and signed for. I had signed up for "Proof of Delivery', and "Adult signature required" but have not received anything from USPS on that. I'll forget saving $30 from now on and will stick with UPS.
Atlanta is a black hole for the USPS. I have several packages that never made it out.
I am guessing based on shipping 1000s of packages a year with USPS that it will eventually show up. Rattle the tree as much as possible.
Out of the thousands of packages I shipped this year, I had one go missing for three weeks and it turned up eventually. Shipping products for a living for over 22 years, that is a typical year.
Higher value shipments get a silenced (modified) Airtag. Droid has their versions now. I throw in a prepaid bubble mailer to return the AirTag.
Label damage and improper packing are the main reasons packages go awol. Tape is cheap. Buy good cheap tape and use it like you are an autistic tape obsessed retard. Tape over labels completely and cleanly.
Not sure what the amount is with USPS but with UPS $1000 dollars or more insurance kicks in a “chain of custody” paperwork system. If I ship UPS, it always gets two labels on the outside and if it’s really important, I insure it for over $1000 no matter what the value.
Over the years I have had much more damage, theft and problems with UPS and FedEx.
Good luck.
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I was dealing with this last night with a customer and realized I should have added this to the above post on my “best practices” for shipping.
You should be able to put a zip+4 on an package and nothing else and it should get to your destination. Of course you can’t do that because USPS.
Zip+4 is individual and specific. It’s like your phone number. It goes to your address and your address only.
Last night I had a order come in where the billing address was a PO Box and the shipping address was a different street address. This is what we call in the shipping biz, a clue.
There are so many people out there who do not understand that just because FedEx and UPS deliver to a street address, that does not in any way mean that US postal will deliver there. You would not believe the long conversations I’ve had over this.
If you pull an address off a website for a business, you could be making this mistake.
The general rule of thumb is that US postal delivers to where your bills go, in most cases. Now some people have redundant PO Box and a home address that gets mail, but that’s different, and rare.
I usually call these people up, like I did last night, and we switch the shipping address to be the same as the billing address then of course run that through the address verification to produce a zip+4. It also correct the street address and abbreviations to how USPS wants it. When you print the address this info goes into the barcodes that are machine read during travel.
This simple detail of making sure EVERY package that leaves here has a usps verification address has saved me some many lost or misdirected packages.
- Never, ever, ship with USPS without having an address that has been run though their address verification system. A valid address will produce a zip+4.
You should be able to put a zip+4 on an package and nothing else and it should get to your destination. Of course you can’t do that because USPS.
Zip+4 is individual and specific. It’s like your phone number. It goes to your address and your address only.Last night I had a order come in where the billing address was a PO Box and the shipping address was a different street address. This is what we call in the shipping biz, a clue.
There are so many people out there who do not understand that just because FedEx and UPS deliver to a street address, that does not in any way mean that US postal will deliver there. You would not believe the long conversations I’ve had over this.
If you pull an address off a website for a business, you could be making this mistake.
The general rule of thumb is that US postal delivers to where your bills go, in most cases. Now some people have redundant PO Box and a home address that gets mail, but that’s different, and rare.
I usually call these people up, like I did last night, and we switch the shipping address to be the same as the billing address then of course run that through the address verification to produce a zip+4. It also correct the street address and abbreviations to how USPS wants it. When you print the address this info goes into the barcodes that are machine read during travel.
This simple detail of making sure EVERY package that leaves here has a usps verification address has saved me some many lost or misdirected packages.
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