Stolen Priority Mail Packages From 6th Avenue
On Saturday May 23, 9:15am two Priority mail packages were stolen from 6th Avenue between 1st and 2nd street. Inside were 81 X-Men comic books from issues 94-120 and other random issues, those being the most important. I'm pretty sure some crackhead came by, saw some packages and had no idea what he was stealing. If anyone sees those particular issues at a flea market or someone offers to sell you those issues, please let me know at [email protected]. I hate the post office. How the hell can they just leave a package upfront like that in plain site? Motherfu*ken pieces of sh*t. I hope the as*hole who stole my packages get hit by a car and dies a very painful death.
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Mail in this area is so incredibly bad. Sorry to hear!
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I posted this previously - it's my hairdresser's postman treating a package gingerly (not!):
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Mpmav1 wrote: Mail in this area is so incredibly bad. Sorry to hear!
Seriously. We have the same mail person -- did you get your weekly magazines last week? We didn't. Not Monday's (should have come Tuesday) and not Wednesday's. Grrrr. -
scarlett wrote: [quote=Mpmav1]Mail in this area is so incredibly bad. Sorry to hear!
Seriously. We have the same mail person -- did you get your weekly magazines last week? We didn't. Not Monday's (should have come Tuesday) and not Wednesday's. Grrrr.
nope. we get about 25% of everything lost... or weeks late. -
Yea, I'd be more likely to blame the carrier than a random crackhead walking by. We've had several packages that were marked as "delivered" on the tracking info go missing... and these were supposedly delivered into the locked vestibule of our apartment building. I find it very very hard to believe that anyone of our neighbors would take our stuff.
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^^ yep, I have that problem all the time. Our vestibule is locked and we are a small building and I have had packages that say on the system delivered, yet, I don't believe they ever were. I am here most of the time when mail comes and even if I am not, none of my neighbors are going to steal my mail. The post office around here just stinks!
it is also very possible that they delivered the package somewhere else, there are very few 'random crackheads" roaming around here, LOL. -
scarlett wrote: [quote=Mpmav1]Mail in this area is so incredibly bad. Sorry to hear!
Seriously. We have the same mail person -- did you get your weekly magazines last week? We didn't. Not Monday's (should have come Tuesday) and not Wednesday's. Grrrr.
I live in the same general area (6th Ave below 9th Street), and my Entertainment Weekly (don't judge!) that normally shows up on Fridays showed up the following Thursday. I'm still waiting for the yesterday's EW to arrive. As a comparison: I used to live in Prospect Heights on Sterling Pl, and my EW showed up like clockwork on Fridays with occasional delays til Saturday. I'm halfway temped to get a PO box, but the local post office sucks, too. :evil: -
Always get insurance and delivery confirmation if you can.
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It seems like I might be able to get a refund on this since Paypal states that any item over $250 has to get signature confirmation. I hate to screw the seller since I've brought from them before but it is a pretty retarded move to ship an item that pricey and not get insurance. I would have got the insurance if it was offered but it wasn't. Anyway, I blame the postman and the crackhead for stealing my packages. I hope they both their faces melted off by staring at the Ark of the Covenant.
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It's not the sellers fault if you did not buy insurance. What is their policy? If I bought something for over 250.00 I would insist on insurance.
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It's not that I didnt buy insurance. I wasn't offered insurance on my invoice. Surely I would have brought insurance. I've done enough dealings on ebay to know that the post office are a bunch of jackoffs. But I was charged for $20 for a priority mail package and I know there is no way it costs that much money to ship 80 comics.
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meganlibrarian wrote: [quote=scarlett][quote=Mpmav1]Mail in this area is so incredibly bad. Sorry to hear!
Seriously. We have the same mail person -- did you get your weekly magazines last week? We didn't. Not Monday's (should have come Tuesday) and not Wednesday's. Grrrr.
I live in the same general area (6th Ave below 9th Street), and my Entertainment Weekly (don't judge!) that normally shows up on Fridays showed up the following Thursday. I'm still waiting for the yesterday's EW to arrive. As a comparison: I used to live in Prospect Heights on Sterling Pl, and my EW showed up like clockwork on Fridays with occasional delays til Saturday. I'm halfway temped to get a PO box, but the local post office sucks, too. :evil:
don't even get me started on when my magazines arrive!
My favorite though is when I am home all day waiting for something to be delivered and when I finally go downstairs there is one of those pink slips in my mailbox saying they tried to deliver but are sorry i wasn't home!! Grrrr! -
^^^ I've called to complain 4x about our mailcarrier. He consistently writes out those "Sorry we missed you" cards and puts them in our gate without even seeing if we're home. I work from home and see him walk up to the door, slide the card inside, and walk away. When I've gone out and said, "Uh, I'm here, why didn't you ring?" he's mumbled something and walked on. The dipshit didn't even have the pkg with him! Lazy ass.
He has done this so many times over the past 3 yrs I've lost count. I've called the PO 4x... the last time the woman hung up on me when I said I was calling with a complaint. Awesome! -
Underhill_MT wrote: ^^^ I've called to complain 4x about our mailcarrier. He consistently writes out those "Sorry we missed you" cards and puts them in our gate without even seeing if we're home. I work from home and see him walk up to the door, slide the card inside, and walk away. When I've gone out and said, "Uh, I'm here, why didn't you ring?" he's mumbled something and walked on. The dipshit didn't even have the pkg with him! Lazy ass.
Did they happen to be very heavy packages? I read something about this either on another thread here or another blog, that sometimes mail delivery guys just leave heavy boxes at the post office and leave the slips b/c they can't or don't want to carry them.
He has done this so many times over the past 3 yrs I've lost count. I've called the PO 4x... the last time the woman hung up on me when I said I was calling with a complaint. Awesome!
Not defending this b/c I've certainly been in the same situation, but just saying there may be a pattern. At least in our current location, near the OP, I have been very happy with FedEx and UPS service while the postman can't even be bothered to put the mail for the different apartments in the different boxes, just shoves it all into one. -
Friedpuppy wrote: It's not that I didnt buy insurance. I wasn't offered insurance on my invoice. Surely I would have brought insurance. I've done enough dealings on ebay to know that the post office are a bunch of jackoffs. But I was charged for $20 for a priority mail package and I know there is no way it costs that much money to ship 80 comics.
Ok, if they didn't offer it before you paid you should have asked them to re-submit a new invoice with the insurance amount included.
Yes, people in the PO can be jackoffs, look who runs it.
If there shipping is stated in the auction then you didn't have to bid. If not, you ask before you bid. And if you're in zone one and they are in zone 8 then yes, it could cost 20.00 to ship if they weigh around 6lbs. The could probably fit in the large flat rate box for 13.95. -
eggcream wrote: [quote=Friedpuppy]It's not that I didnt buy insurance. I wasn't offered insurance on my invoice. Surely I would have brought insurance. I've done enough dealings on ebay to know that the post office are a bunch of jackoffs. But I was charged for $20 for a priority mail package and I know there is no way it costs that much money to ship 80 comics.
Ok, if they didn't offer it before you paid you should have asked them to re-submit a new invoice with the insurance amount included.
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OpossumQueen wrote: [quote=Underhill_MT]^^^ I've called to complain 4x about our mailcarrier. He consistently writes out those "Sorry we missed you" cards and puts them in our gate without even seeing if we're home. I work from home and see him walk up to the door, slide the card inside, and walk away. When I've gone out and said, "Uh, I'm here, why didn't you ring?" he's mumbled something and walked on. The dipshit didn't even have the pkg with him! Lazy ass.
Did they happen to be very heavy packages? I read something about this either on another thread here or another blog, that sometimes mail delivery guys just leave heavy boxes at the post office and leave the slips b/c they can't or don't want to carry them.
He has done this so many times over the past 3 yrs I've lost count. I've called the PO 4x... the last time the woman hung up on me when I said I was calling with a complaint. Awesome!
Not defending this b/c I've certainly been in the same situation, but just saying there may be a pattern. At least in our current location, near the OP, I have been very happy with FedEx and UPS service while the postman can't even be bothered to put the mail for the different apartments in the different boxes, just shoves it all into one.
That *might* be sort of an explanation... except they were all envelopes but one - a box, which was the size of a shoebox and contained baby clothes. Not your heaviest of boxes.
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Also, I totally agree with OpossumQueen - UPS and FedEx in my nabe are fabulous. They're always on time or early, friendly, etc. The guys ask about my dog and the UPS guy even knows my kid's name.
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Subject: Couldn't agree more
I live in the same general area (6th Ave below 9th Street), and my Entertainment Weekly (don't judge!) that normally shows up on Fridays showed up the following Thursday. I'm still waiting for the yesterday's EW to arrive. As a comparison: I used to live in Prospect Heights on Sterling Pl, and my EW showed up like clockwork on Fridays with occasional delays til Saturday. I'm halfway temped to get a PO box, but the local post office sucks, too. :evil:
I second and third that - I too used to live on Sterling in PH and got mail no problem. Mail on 6th ave (this side of it) is atrocious. Is there really no recourse?? -
That sucks...those are some good X-Men comics (Chris Claremont run). I'll keep my eye out for them. You should contact any local comic stores in the area. My bet is the guy will try to sell them.
Whenever I get a big box from the USPS they never leave it and make me go to the Van Brunt station between 4 and 5th and 9th street. I wonder why they didn't do that for you? Lazy?
I live in the same area and we regularly get mail for other people. Makes me wonder what stuff I'm not getting. -
Are you sure they were even delivered to the right address? I have been home, with the window open and dog under it when a package was supposedly delivered to our ground level apt. but it definitely wasn't delivered here. The dog would not have let me miss it even if I wanted. No idea where it ended up but it was something I ordered from a big company so they just sent a replacement.
Maybe slide a note under neighboring doors--maybe it went to another building and they either return it to the PO or it's just sitting in a lobby somewhere. Long shot, but maybe worth it for something not easily replaced.
That does really suck, whatever happened. -
^^Also a good point! i had a package about a year ago that was sent me to me from California, when i looked it up, it said it had been delivered on a certain day and time. But, nothing was ever here and none of my neighbors had ever seen it. Turns out that the package was delivered to the same house number as mine but one block over. I only found this out when I went hunting for it.
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scarlett wrote:
I've had to call four different magazines on two separate occasions to get them to start up my subscriptions again -- both times they suspended them after deeming my address "undeliverable."
don't even get me started on when my magazines arrive!
My favorite though is when I am home all day waiting for something to be delivered and when I finally go downstairs there is one of those pink slips in my mailbox saying they tried to deliver but are sorry i wasn't home!! Grrrr! -
Yea...it's a sweet run. It's the first app. of the new X-Men and John Byrne's start. they usually do leave me a note but the postman is a filthy piece of crap. I've called the post office and talked to someone there. She told me that she would talk to the driver and see if it was just left out or if it was delivered. She called me Friday and told me to call back Saturday at 930am but their phone was busy all morning and it was probably off the hook. I called Monday morning and the lady said she would find out what happened and call me back in an hour. Yea...right....I'm collecting dust now waiting for that bitch. Needless to say that she never called me back. I've also heard horror stories about how the USPS F•cks you when you buy insurance because they don't pay up or lowball the value. My worst fear is that some homeless as*hole is using it to keep warm at night. I've called the local comic book stores, checked craigslist, checked ebay and nothing yet. Hopefully it will turn up. Regardless I hope the guy that stole the books from me gets raped by a monkey and gets ebola. Seriously.
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try writing to the post office thru the website. Might get more attention and your complaint might not get squashed/tossed by the VanBrunt (rhymes conveniently with a word I try not to say often) PO
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This week I found an unopened package for my neighbor outside, near the garbage! The delivery person must have just dropped it there. Anyone could have walked by and grabbed it. Heck, I could have kept the package myself if I wanted.
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