Not defending Lincoln's PO here, since I have my own struggles with them. But it is a Federal Offense to put anything but postage-paid USPS Mail in a Mailbox. And, I believe the law allows the USPS to confiscate and dispose of anything put in the box that should not have been there. The courier (and the courier service) should know this, and would be the ones liable for their failure to observe the law.
The only thing the courier’s photo proves is that they committed a crime. I would be go to them and point out that it is in their best interest to play nice and give you a full refund, and possibly a refund for the value of whatever was lost as a result of their failure. Because, if you lodge an official complaint against them with the USPS (with that photo they so nicely provided as proof), they could face some pretty stiff fines. - Allen Vander Meulen Lincoln Rd [Wayland] > On Aug 3, 2024, at 18:35, Nicholas Ribush <nickrib...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear All, > > I had a package delivered by a courier service and they made the mistake of > leaving it in our mailbox. They even took a photo of it as proof (see below). > But they didn't notify me of the delivery. So a week later when I went online > to see what was going on I found that it had been delivered, à la > aforementioned photo. Obviously I hadn't seen it in our mailbox. > > We've had a couple of other issues with our mailman's pedantry, and I don't > know if it was the same one here, but remembering that only USPS is supposed > to leave stuff in mailboxes, I wondered if he had seen it there when doing > his delivery and confiscated it, perhaps in a righteous fit of pique. > > So, after a bit of unfruitful back and forth with the Lincoln PO counter > staff, I asked if it was possible that the mailman had indeed confiscated it > and, as a kind of trophy, taken it back to home base. And sure enough, in > some kind of black hole tub in the back, there it was. Of course, they were > not going to tell me. I guess eventually it would have been returned to > sender (in China) or destroyed or...who knows what? > > All this to say, if you did not receive your courier-delivered package yet > you're given photographic evidence that it was delivered, see if it was put > into your mailbox and stolen by the PO! > > n. > > <image.png> > > -- > The LincolnTalk mailing list. > To post, send mail to Lincoln@lincolntalk.org. > Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/. > Change your subscription settings at > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln. > -- The LincolnTalk mailing list. To post, send mail to Lincoln@lincolntalk.org. Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/. Change your subscription settings at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln.
