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So, some girl just bought a stroller from me and I need to get this
Does anyone know the cheapest—and most reliable—way to ship this thing without having to lug it onto a Greyhound bus? 🙂
What are we looking at price-wise lately? Should I stick with FedEx or maybe UPS, or is there some other way to go?
Hey, hey..
Ugh, I seriously need to vent about my nightmare experience with the USPS. Not only did two packages from the United States fail to show up—even though the seller sent me all the tracking confirmations, so clearly they got stuck in our mail system—but one package actually got sent right back to the US! And get this: the label said the mail carrier couldn't find the address???? Like, hello?? They know exactly who we are and where we live! 🙂
And now this crap is starting to happen with domestic shipping too. Some girl bought some kids' clothes from me here on the forum, and at her request, I sent them via priority mail. (Total rookie mistake on my part since I don't have any proof of postage now). She wanted it that way so she wouldn't have to trek down to the post office to pick up a box. It was mailed on December 5th and it either vanished into thin air or just never made it to her—it didn't even come back to me!? 🤷🤷
The thing is, when it’s not registered mail, you can't exactly file a claim or get reimbursed... it's a total joke. So, fine, I tried asking at our local post office twice to see what went wrong and how we could track it down. After getting verbally attacked by the clerk there, I decided to call their customer service line. The guy told me to just go down to the branch and file a "missing item report" by describing the packaging and the contents—so that's exactly what I did... I head to the post office with all that info, and the woman there literally looks at me and goes: "And what am I supposed to do with that? 🙂 🙂" Like, seriously?! So I told her I'd just head over to the main facility on Broadway to check with the undelivered mail department.
MM and I have been there twice now, and nobody knows a single damn thing about it. This lady wouldn't even let us up to the second floor where the warehouse is so we could describe the items to the guy working there—she was so incredibly indifferent it actually made me feel sick.
She actually had the nerve to tell me that if a package isn't delivered or returned to the sender, they open it up, and if it's clothing, they try to find the owner somehow. But if they can't? Then it gets destroyed by a committee (which is basically code for: "we're keeping it for ourselves!")
That guy on the second floor at the Broadway location—who, according to that clerk, apparently knows every single package that passes through his hands—said he's never seen our package. It has such specific packaging that I'm positive it would have caught his eye.
Does anyone have any other ideas on how I can hunt these things down? I was even thinking about bringing photos of the clothes to show them; luckily I have them because apparently, they're supposed to hold onto stuff like that for six months.
Oh, I totally forgot to mention—the package was being sent from New York City to New York City. 🙂