Forum - Banjo Ben Clark

US Mail - Warning

#1

Just lifted this post from the Banjo Hangout! :email: :email: :email:

"I’m steamed about a Post Office issue this morning!

Last Tuesday Sept. 12 I mailed a package to a buyer in Colorado. My prepayment of postage was included in the sale price. I got a receipt and a tracking #.

My customer didn’t have the package by Friday so on Saturday I tracked the package and it was “Held” at customer’s post office “at customer request”. I shared this info with my customer and yesterday, Monday, he went to his Post Office to pick it up. There he was told there was several dollars of “postage due” which he had to pay to get the package!!! He complained to me, naturally. I visited my little country post office this morning (open only 8 to noon) and complained to my Postmaster who told me this is happening all over the country because the Post Office had a rate increase BETWEEN the time I mailed my package last Tuesday and the time it arrived Friday/Saturday at customer’s location!!!

So if you mailed out a package early last week, check to see where it is and if it’s being held up for postage due this week. Receivers are rightly steamed about having to pay postage due, but also about the inconvenience, and the Post Office bureaucracy. Something expensive to mail could have a significant postage due bill, I think.

My Postmaster says there have been so many complaints (that he agrees with) that he’s not even reporting complaints any more. He said if a package arrived for ME with postage due, he’d waive it."

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#2

Another example of efficiency in Federal Services

#3

The great political machine!
In-transit mail should definitely be grandfathered in!

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#4

This smells bogus to me, a fabrication, an Internet myth. For one thing, the postage is “paid in full” when the stamp is cancelled. That is done at the sending post office, not the receiving one.
Pardon me while I go out and harvest my spaghetti trees.

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#5

Them: Use autos,trains, and planes they said. It will be faster they said.

Me: Driving around downtown looking for a Pony Express station. :rofl:

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#6

Our Royal Mail is no longer as efficient since it was privatised. Everything is second class (even 1st Class Mail) except everything is way more expensive.

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#7

@Banjoe
Archie is Great Britain I believe, so things may be different there.

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#8

Yep here in the UK once the correct postage has been paid the package is generally delivered. If insufficient funding is paid by the sender then there wold be a charge to be paid by the recipient. My only reason for posting this warning was to alert anyone who had maybe bought something from the General Store which was being shipped by US Mail. A general heads Up.

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#9

Whether that was bogus/fabrication/myth or not, I’m a living witness that similar thing happened to me between an year and a year and a half. I was asking for some documentation for legal from a government department so I went and mailed a letter in a post office with tracking with signature required. When I didn’t get the signed card back within a reasonable time (in some 15 days, it was mailed to an address 10 min away from my place or from the post office btw), I checked online, and got the same information posted above - held at customer request!

(I mail and I pay the postage, so I’m the customer, and I never requested it to be held!)

The matter was related to a traffic case which no attorneys were willing to take up but ended up being prosecution asking for continuation of trial (can you imagine that happens??!!) when I represented myself and afterwards case was dismissed!

These are covert activities!

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