Posts by Brandon Young2

Well, I’m the idiot here.🙂 I sent a phone worth about $450 to an Apple repair center via standard registered mail. I paid the $5.00 shipping fees, and honestly, if I had just sent a pair of socks, everything would have been fine, but my phone just vanished. Thirty days later, a claim notice arrived—no phone, nothing. The explanation from USPS was simply that the package got lost somewhere between the USPS regional hub and the USPS office in Washington, D.C. I received a measly $25 in compensation, and that was it. After that, I'll admit I messed up and 🙄 reached out to the USPS Washington, D.C. office to tell them they clearly have a thief in their ranks. Since that repair shop is one of the biggest tech service centers in the US, someone at the post office must have seen where it was headed. I told them they should talk to their staff, but the response was just, "Sir, you should have used insured shipping, blah blah blah..." I told them I get it, it's my fault, but all my personal data is on that device and someone is actively stealing it. They didn't care.
Do you think it's worth reporting the theft to the police separately from the postal claim, especially since it might be possible to track the phone using the IMEI code?