USPS is not designed to make a profit. It is a public service established in our Constitution. FedEx is not going to ship your letter to your grandma in rural Montana and have someone drive the final hours burning fuel for a 50 cent stamp.
I gave my post office scans of the item, Serial #, ect. If the job was done right at MRC, I would have gotten it back.
Ofcourse they have to sell things to make their profits. Just irritating when you get told to pound sound, and find your item up for sale again, You never really expect to see lost mail resurface.
Hey, Never know. I was just in total Awe to see my missing item from April appear again .
Sellers a definite douche though. I didnât ask for it back freely, I offered to pay, Just not the $900 heâs asking for it in scratched condition, ect, and the fact that⌠well⌠Technically itâs mine to a degree since USPS never Absolved my rightful ownership by honoring a claim.
But thatâs all Moot. They did advise me to file a Mail Fraud complaint, LOL so I did. Maybe my case will make sense to the Postal Inspector and theyâll offer something.
FWIW, Police actually told me to buy it and dispute . Not something Iâm into, but it was funny.
Who knows what FedEx would do if there werenât Private Express Statutes requiring private carriers to charge six times the amount of USPS to carry letters?
OP, sorry to hear about your experience, but I feel the need to respond to this.
Itâs pretty hilarious that a graph from âUnbiased Americaâ is incredibly biased and tells 0% of the full story of the Post Officeâs revenue issues.
A 2006 law required that the USPS fund its employeesâ healthcare costs 50 years in advanceâa burden placed on no other federal agency (nor private company, obviously).
Quoting from PolitiFact: James OâRourke, a teaching professor of management at the University of Notre Dame, said ⌠âThis advance funding requirement places a burden of about $6.6 billion on the postal service that would not exist if they followed a pay-as-you-go approach,â OâRourke said. "This burden has quite nearly bankrupted the USPS over a 15-year period.â ⌠ââif the costs of this retiree health care mandate were removed from the USPS financial statements,â the Postal Service wouldâve reported operating profits from 2013 through 2018â.
Itâs also designed as a service, not a business, which means itâs not supposed to aim for the highest profit margins. Itâs also consistently as reliable as UPS and FedEx, if not moreso. Come on, now.
I would hope the new âownerâ of your slab, would give you some more insight into these âUSPS auctionsâ Iâve never heard they did auctions before, I wonder if thatâs where all the good Pokemon stuff is, If you can access an auction webpage, perhaps you can make a clear case n take it to court or whatever legal process makes sense for this. Itâs for sure an unfortunate circumstance, hopefully if your case gets resolved it can help others if they encounter this problem and show what steps need to be taken in this event. Best of luck
USPS gets things wrong sometimes which sucks, but itâs going to happen when they deliver so much mail. I lost a PSA 9 error wartortle in January and the missing mail claim was finally ended by USPS a few months ago because they couldnât find it. I wouldnât be surprised to find it up on eBay one day. The other userâs terrible graph doesnât give any reason why Fedex or UPS would never lose packages. USPS is by far the cheapest service and without them there would be no way I could sell a lot of the cards I do on eBay.
Its sad this is a thing, that quilt was amazing, if USPS has photos of the auctioned items, they should have it inventoried in a way so that the owner of the âlost parcelâ can have it located easily, only 3% get returned to the owner is unbelievable!!
They don`t though, 5 year cancer survival rates has the US at #1. When you remove homicides and car accidents, the US has the longest life expectancy. Also they develop over half of all new medical patents.
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. Not something Iâm into, but it was funny.