[78-L] First eBay problem

[David Lennick]

Gee, I didn't know the USPS was using the Toronto Police Department's Special 
Investigations Unit guidebook.

That's like the little bastard who delivers (sometimes) the local paper three 
times a week, which is of interest only for the store flyers. When one's 
missing, he says "Kids must have stolen it."

dl

On 12/28/2010 2:28 PM, L78rpm at aol.com wrote:
> An underlying problem is that the "investigation" conducted by the USPS
> seems to be completely self-contained.  It appears that all the carrier  needs
> do is punch a key indicating "delivered" and that is their proof that it
> reached its intended destination.
>
> The carrier could have run it over with his truck and thrown it in the
> trash, but if the computer says "delivered," that satisfies the USPS.  They
> are answerable only to themselves.   A standard answer from the  USPS:  "It
> must have been stolen from your doorstep."  Prove that it  wasn't!   And given
> that they "conducted an investigation" and are  satisfied that it had been
> delivered, they won't pay the insurance.
>
> paul charosh
>
>
>
> In a message dated 12/28/10 2:19:24 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> ekluwer at gmail.com writes:
>
> I can't  understand why Archeophone didn't send such a rare and significant
> record  with a Fedex or DHL!!!
>
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Tim Brooks<tbroo2 at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>
>> Sorry you had this problem. I  related a very unfortunate case like this
> in
>> my ARSC Journal column a  couple of issues ago. I had sent an extremely
> rare
>> 1916 Starr record  to Archeophone for reissue, and they returned it via
> USPO
>> insured. As  with yours, it never arrived. The PO said it had been scanned
>> into the  zip code, and had been "left at your door." However I was at
> home
>> at  the supposed time of delivery and no one rang the bell; I went out
> that
>> door a few minutes after it was allegedly delivered and there was  no
> package
>> in sight.
>>
>> Rich Martin of Archeophone did  everything humanly possible to try to
> track
>> it down, including  repeatedly contacting the postmaster, and filing
> claims.
>> I talked to  my carrier and he said there was a substitute on the route
> that
>> day.  Bottom line, they were all
>>   very sorry but did nothing whatever  (as far as I can tell) to try to
> find
>> it. They also refused to pay the  insurance.
>>
>> They've lost other things too, like magazines, and  they really don't
> care.
>> They've got guaranteed jobs, no consequences  if they screw up, etc. etc.
>> What makes it doubly unfortunate is that  this was probably the only
>> surviving copy of a rather historic black  recording. My best advice to
>> everyone reading this is if it's  important, either use UPS or Fedex, or
> at
>> least signature required.  USPO insurance is worthless. Hindsight is
>> wonderful.
>>
>>   The one bit of good news in this case was that Archeophone made a
> digital
>> transfer while they had the record, and it is now out on Ken  Flaherty's
>> excellent new Fisk Jubilee Quartet CD called "There  Breathes a Hope"
> (with
>> notes by myself and the estimable Doug Seroff).  So the sound survives,
> even
>> if the Post Office has made sure that the  record didn't.
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original  Message
>>   -----
>> From: "Taylor Bowie"<bowiebks at isomedia.com>
>> To:
>>   "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent:
>>   Monday,  December 27, 2010 5:12 PM
>> Subject: [78-L] First eBay  problem
>>
>>
>>>
>>   I've always posted on here  about all my good eBay experiences as a
>> buyer,
>>> so thought  I should alert all to a probelm I just had
>> which resulted in  my
>>> being out $140.
>>
>>