First time my pin has been lost in the mail

[Luv2Roam]

What has been other's experiences on this situation?:

TA pin trade made
I mailed mine without insurance, but with delivery confirmation. (Figured not mailing with insurance pays for itself in the long run even if any do get lost.)
For a label, I copy and paste the trader's address direct from their e-mail. Big bold black lettering that can't be missed. And I tape it securely onto the LBE.
I received the other person's pin as agreed.
They e-mailed me a few days ago that they had not received mine.
I checked USPS. They show the LBE was delivered June 7, at 4:35 p.m.
I e-mailed USPS asking what the next step was.
Their response was to drop it into the intended recipient's lap.

We are unable to provide additional assistance via the Internet. For further assistance, please have the recipient contact their local post office to speak with the delivery supervisor.

And they provided that post office's hours and phone number.
We all know the postal service is not perfect. Although out of the 100's of pins I have mailed over years, this is the first time anything has been lost.
I have no reason not to believe the person I traded with. They have been very nice -- so far.

Anyone else have this situation? And how did you handle it?
If I have to return their pin, so be it. That was the risk I took not to insure a one pin trade.

 

[Duckfan]

I think I have had lost pins only three times. Twice to me and once it was the pin I sent. I ended up returning the one I received as I could not replace the pin. But about two weeks later the pin showed up and so the person sent the pin again.
The when I failed to receive the pin, one time I just let the person keep the pin I sent and wrote it off and one time another person sent me another pin to replace the one that didn't come. So, in each instance it was handled a different way. I still don't insure my pins unless I am sending a bunch all at the same time. I haven't heard of good returns on insured pins. Sorry, I don't have a really good answer but maybe this helps.

 

[Luv2Roam]

Well -- it paid to send by delivery confirmation.
They looked around their house a little harder and found it.
Now had I not mailed that with DC, I would be having to return their pin. Not a BIG deal, but two LE1000 were involved.

 

[JudithM]

I am glad to read this morning that the lost pin was found!

Reminds me of when I was trading a lot ... I sent someone a pin. I kept waiting to here she received it. She said she had not received it. Then I received my pin from her in the mail. It arrived in the SAME envelope I sent the pin to her. Some lame excuse arose ... .

Never a dull moment!

 

[AZ JazzyJ]

Maybe a dingo ate their pin.


Jeff

 

[Goofy4Pluto]

yup! I will sometimes send my pins DC
if the person doesn't have very many
refs... and luckily I haven't had any that
went bad from this...

but I used to work for UPS and it is
unbelievable that people would SIGN
for their pkgs (we'd have the same
signature on file over and over so we
knew it WAS them) and they would
deny receiving the package!
I mean, duh!?!?!?

Then there was always the neighbors
with sticky fingers, the room mate that
accepted a pkg and put it in a closet! etc!

If a DC says it is there, it is there... unless
the mailman is a complete idiot and delivered
it to the neighbors!

 

[MeanLaureen]

I think it was one of those time/space continum things that Doc Brown kept warning us about

 

[Goofy4Pluto]

Originally posted by MeanLaureen
I think it was one of those time/space continum things that Doc Brown kept warning us about

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

yeah, do you have a picture of the pin? is it
slowly disappearing??? or did grandpa run over
it with the car? Check with the libyans... maybe
they stole it in exchange for the plutonium!

I love BTTF!

 

[Mr. Plutonium]

Hi!
What Libyans? I'm not missing any plutonium.
-Gene

 

[AZ JazzyJ]

Whoa, this is heavy.

 

[Goofy4Pluto]

Originally posted by AZ JazzyJ
Whoa, this is heavy.

Is there something with the earth's gravitational
pull in the future?... you keep saying everything
is heavy!

(I think Doc says something like that!)

I sometimes think my mailman was named McFly
and is from Hill Valley... McFly's are slackers and
never amounted to anything in the history of hill
valley!

1.21 gigawats!

Great pick up lines of all time:
I have a flex capacitor in my Delorean... how bout you?

Sorry Barb! We are turning your serious thread
into a BTTF revival!