Is there anything I can do? (post office package rummaged through and stuff stolen)

[CathrynRose]

We just got back from Disney a couple weeks ago.

I normally ship my package via UPS from the front desk. My ex husband was visiting the boys, and offered to ship my box for me. Great!

He shipped it... through USPS...no insurance, no tracking, parcel post, at that. Thanks for the favor.

My box finally arrived today - with little to nothing in it. It has a small stamp on it which says 'damaged in shipping' however it wasnt damaged - it was cut open, and retaped.

I am now missing my mom's beach towels (she bought these at Disney 10+ years ago, and she's dead...I'm sad about this) 1 bottle of Laila, 2 bottles of Geir, a pair of Birkenstocks, ALL my dirty clothes, $66 Shampoo and Conditioner I bought at the Swan, 2 refillable mugs... I cant even think of it all.


Let's put it this way - all I have are one coffee press, broken with glass everywhere (it was in the middle of my box, when shipped out, so it's probably broken after being removed from the rolled up beach towel they stole.

Im so angry with my ex husband.

ANy help is appreicated.

 

[diznygirl]

This happened to a friend of mine. She filled out a form listing the stuff she was missing. Supposedly there is a warehouse somewhere with stuff and they will look for your things and send you back anything they find. Have you called the post office?

Wish I could tell you there was a good resolution to the whole thing - she was potting together an anniversary scrapbook with help from cousins around the country and lost photographs.

 

[CathrynRose]

This happened to a friend of mine. She filled out a form listing the stuff she was missing. Supposedly there is a warehouse somewhere with stuff and they will look for your things and send you back anything they find. Have you called the post office?

Wish I could tell you there was a good resolution to the whole thing - she was potting together an anniversary scrapbook with help from cousins around the country and lost photographs.

Alright - thank you. I'm going to go there, tonight.

It seems anything worth anything (I guess my dirty underwear falls into that category) was taken - including all of Danny's pins. They were kind enough to put the baggie we had the pins in, back in the box though. Funny how all the pins could fall out, and not the ziploc, isnt it?

I am SO upset. I understand the old saying of 'if you want something done right, you do it yourself' but geez. This was his son's stuff too, we were shipping back.

And you know - I'm so incredibly upset about my mom's Disney beach towels. I feel like everything is replaceable -but those towels were from so long ago.

I'm so pissed and sad.

 

[momof1princess]

i am SO sorry. the post office lost something of mine, and even with a tracking number, it got lost and they made absolutely NO effort to find it or assist me in any way. the only person who was at all helpful was the post office manager at the destination post office. i hope some of your things can be recovered

 

[DWGal210]

I'm so sorry to hear about this.

I don't want to offend anyone who works at the USPS - - but in my town, they are notorious for delivering the wrong packages, putting things in the wrong mailboxes, etc. We had a huge problem with them at my office as we recently moved and they are doing all sorts of bizarre things with our mail, even though we've had our change of address forms filled out for MONTHS.

I would file a report and go from there. And be beligerant and angry if you have to. Sometimes you have to stay on top of these people and make some noise to get it taken care of. I've learned that the hard way.

It makes me VERY suspicious that your pins somehow were taken but the baggie they came in was still in the box.....hmmmm....I would be including that in my report, if I were you. It would appear that someone who had contact with this package was helping themselves.

I hope you can find some of your items - - and thank you for the reminder, I will only be using UPS to ship my packages to AND from the hotel this December. Take care!

 

[CathrynRose]

UGH! I got the inspectors info. I am writing them tomorrow.

I had a bag full of dirty laundry, in a mesh laundry bag - all folded... that bag was empty, leaving me with one pair of underwear.

Yeah a flipping mesh laundry bag, draw string closed - falls out of a box, and one pair of undies was recoverable.

 

[Imzadi]

This happened to me once, and it was the LAST time I sent something of value through USPS - and especially without tracking and insurance. I returned a beautiful Victoria Secret, silk blazer that didn't fit. VS even said in their directions to use UPS instead. I didn't pay attention. Well, my package went "missing."

As I was filling out the lost package forms at the USPS, the female clerk was quite smug, saying don't expect to receive news that the package will be found - especially as there was no tracking and insurance. She said, "For all I know, VS probably got the package and just denied receiving it."

Ah, no, more than likely, that clerk stole the package with the very recognisable address label to VS and her sister was given the package as an Xmas present, and is now wearing the expensive slik blazer, courtesy of ME.

Think of it, there was no tracking, which meant there was no accountability for which center the package went "missing." No insurance, so their own USPS doesn't eat the cost. They really don't care if they get a reputation for lost or mishandled packages as it's not like they are going out of business. For some postal workers, it would be like free pickings to snag some quality items now and again. Airline baggage workers have been filmed and documented to go into luggage and do the exact same thing.

 

[CathrynRose]

Think of it, there was no tracking, which meant there was no accountability for which center the package went "missing." No insurance, so their own USPS doesn't eat the cost. They really don't care if they get a reputation for lost or mishandled packages as it's not like they are going out of business. For some postal workers, it would be like free pickings to snag some quality items now and again. Airline baggage workers have been filmed and documented to go into luggage and do the exact same thing.

No, I know. You're right. I would have insured it. Why my exhusband didnt still baffles and upsets me.

I said to him this afternoon, you wouldnt have shipped your stuff this way. And he wouldnt have.

Im so UGH! I cant even verbally express it. I'm not a millionaire - and the thought of spending $300 more dollars, on just the perfume - or the $120 to replace my Birks - and all my clothes!!!!?? BLAH!!

 

[C.Ann]

I had a bag full of dirty laundry, in a mesh laundry bag - all folded... that bag was empty, leaving me with one pair of underwear.

Yeah a flipping mesh laundry bag, draw string closed - falls out of a box, and one pair of undies was recoverable.

Okay - that's sick - or desperate - or both!

 

[Ember]

I am SO sorry. It could have happened with UPS, too, though. We shipped 14 boxes back in August. Because my husband wrote on the outside of the boxes what was in them, we're pretty sure one of the boxes was opened and stolen from. The box had our food processor in it. This ONE box got separated some how from the rest of the shipment and was "missing" for over a week. Then it suddenly turned up. Opened. With rather a lot of our kitchen electronic missing. Mmm hmm.

When we tried to complain, to the delivery center, the shipping center and the hotline NO ONE would help. We got the run around about how there hadn't been six inches of foam padding on the inside of the box so they couldn't help us. But they would check their warehouse to see if it turns up there.

 

[dis-happy]

So sorry this happened to you. I, for one, am sick of tired of being nickeled and dimed at the post office, that it's become necessary to pay extra for insurance and tracking in order to make sure a package actually gets delivered. Not too long ago I mailed my dsis's bday present in a Priority Mail box.....guess what, it went missing. My mom finally asked her local carrier about it (they live in an exclusive gated community) and lo and behold, a couple of days later (and over a week late) it gets delivered. It came with some stupid sticker saying it had come apart in transit, but I had taped every part of that box thoroughly with packing tape...no way did it come apart on its own. Thankfully, the contents arrived intact. But personally, I've had it with the post office and have decided to stick with UPS from now on, even if it's a couple of dollars more. The post office has become a den of thieves.

 

[TLHB70]

i am SO sorry. the post office lost something of mine, and even with a tracking number, it got lost and they made absolutely NO effort to find it or assist me in any way. the only person who was at all helpful was the post office manager at the destination post office. i hope some of your things can be recovered

The exact same thing happened to me. I had a tracking number, but my post office that I mailed from didn't seem too concerned or eager to help. I had to fill out their form. Believe me, I stayed on top of them. I made a visit every day asking about my item. I finally called the office that I shipped to and they seemed friendly and tried to help. About a week after that call my recipient received her package. It had been torn open, wrinkled up (like someone had thrown it away), and then taped back together. However, the item was there. It just arrived almost a month late.

I am so sorry that this has happened to you!

 

[CathrynRose]

Thanks for all the hugs and stuff. It's a weird feeling. I don't know if 'violated' sounds too dramatic - but it feels kinda like that.

My son had a Carlton Fisk Vintage Jersey my mom had gotten him - gone. My $160 Flat Iron - gone. My nail polish and Seche top coat - gone. My B&BW lotion - gone. My iPod wall charger - gone. My extra phone charger - gone.

I keep think of things, as the night goes on. I didn't think I'd need a flipping inventory list.

My swim suits - get this... the top from one, the bottom from another. I wish they would have just took them both, because now I have a useless set of swim suit pieces. I'm half tempted to ship them "C/O of the thieves in the Atlanta Post Office" (where it was marked 'damaged') with a little note letting them know these are the pieces they missed. Jerks.

My g/f from Boston got me this cute big over size shirt to wear to bed - it said "Have a Wicked Pissah' Day". Gone.

I'm so annoyed.

 

[CathrynRose]

Who takes someone's underwear?!?!? GOD!

 

[MushyMushy]

I've been following this on FB and I'm so sorry that happened.

Give the ex a kick in the rear while you're at it!

 

[Stacerita]

Who takes someone's underwear?!?!? GOD!

You don't want to know. I bet there are being sold online or being used for ones enjoyment.

 

[C.Ann]

Who takes someone's underwear?!?!? GOD!

Really.. I think if someone stole my unwashed underwear, the word "violated" would cross my mind too.. It's so - I don't know - "perverted", I guess..

 

[JerseyJanice]

I don't have any suggestions for you, but want to say that I feel bad it happened.

Losing the Laila perfume alone would set me off big time! What a sad and expensive way to learn that you can't trust the Post Office anymore.

 

[Imzadi]

What a sad and expensive way to learn that you can't trust the Post Office anymore.

Yes, the reason I didn't pay attention to the Victoria Secret directions stating specifically to use UPS or a delivery service with automatic tracking, was because I didn't know the P.O. would steal my stuff. I guess they went through enough times and realised their items are hot items to steal by the USPS.

 

[tink_lover]

I travel A LOT for my job. What I have learned is the following - and I mean this kindly ( I know sometimes it doesn't translate with reading just the words) - DO NOT travel with anything you wouldn't be ok losing. The jersey, the expensive perfume, the flat iron, anything sentimental.....if you are not ok with never seeing it again - take something else. Grab some perfume samples at the mall; bring old towels; same with make up and lip glosses (I once lost $$$ with that - Chanel, Philosophy, etc) - now I take my "travel" stuff with me and bring clothing/shoes that are not necessarily my favorites, but if I never saw it again wouldn't devastate me. Sorry for your loss.