| Just curious: sometimes Amazon will leave a delivery in my mailbox. Is that a violation of “ "...it is a Federal Offense to put anything but postage-paid USPS Mail in a Mailbox”? Kathryn Corbin
Sent from my iPhone Please excuse any typos, (which I declare are exclusively the fault of auto spell-check!) On Aug 4, 2024, at 12:38 AM, Sara Mattes <samat...@gmail.com> wrote:
Moral of the story-always ask before jumping to conclusions. I am not sure if there is an obligation by the PO to notify you.
You were smart to track it down.
Lead with kindness as we never know what the other person is going through. Sent from my iPad On Aug 3, 2024, at 9:25 PM, Nicholas Ribush <nickrib...@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry. "Stole" was tongue in cheek, the ! supposedly indicating that. Still and all, it was taken by the mailman and I was not informed.
No miscommunication or misunderstanding.
Clearly not outgoing mail. Very obviously addressed to me.
Furthermore, and I have not fact-checked this, but someone wrote to me:
"...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 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."
Nevertheless, I agree our local USPS do a great job, but there have been these hiccups. This was a PSA in case anybody else has had a package disappear.
Thank you Katie!
I have countless packages delivered, many are left in my mail box by delivery persons other than usps
Nothing has gone astray
My mailman always delivers usps packages to my door
They are amazing
I think there must have been a big miscommunication or misunderstanding behind your problems
Laura Glynn
Tower Road I’m glad to hear you were able to get your package back.
Did you ever think that the USPS carrier thought it was out going mail? I cannot imagine they look at packages left in mailboxes to see if the package belongs to you. If the carrier “stole” your mail I do not believe they would have brought it to the post office.
You are one house on your carriers route. Until you have done their job let’s show some respect. Stating that your USPS carrier stole your mail is a serious allegation.
Katie
One kind word can change someone's day!
> On Aug 3, 2024, at 6:35 PM, Nicholas Ribush <nickrib...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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!
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