Help on "lost" packages.

Unfortunately, although I am constantly looking for trades here. I am hesitant to trade at this moment. Cards/Packages and the like are tampered with frequently in mail (though they should not) for people looking for Money and other things... its a shame, but I wait until January at this point to do trades. Bummer cause I could use some stuff for the next few weeks but I'd rather be safe then sorry. Maybe something like that happened

That is the only thing that could have happened at this point I think. I put them in a locked mail box that only USPS has access 2

It sucks to say, but your local post office personnel aren't above being scumbags. Here's something that happened to me, not Magic related.

I lived in a city neighborhood that required residential parking permits to park on the street all day without getting a ticket. Since parking near my neighborhood, in a garage, can run you somewhere in the ballpark of $1500-2000 a year, obtaining one of those parking permits can be worth a lot of money. I'm sure you could easily sell one for $500 cash, with no effort what so ever.

Anyway, each year we received notification from the city which was a form to return with a copy of our registration, showing that we still lived there. So, one year, we get the forms and I fill them out for both the wife and myself and send them in. A couple weeks later I grab the stack of mail that was shoved through my front door mail slot and there are two envelopes, from the Department of Finance (the office that issues the parking permits), that are torn open and empty. Not slightly ripped and maybe the contents fell out... like, someone took their finger and opened the letter end to end. To be clear, the rest of the mail was completely unscathed in any way. It was just the two letters from the Department of Finance that were manged and empty.

So I called the city office, explained what happened and the lady on the phone says, "OK, I'll void those stickers and send you out two more. Expect them in 2-3 days." Well, 2-3 days goes by and I pickup the mail at the front door, only to see two more letters from the Department of Finance which had been ripped open, emptied and taped shut. Again, no other mail had met the same fate, just those letters.

I took all four envelopes to the city Post Office, showed them to the Postmaster and he assured me that no one would ever do that and that my mail slot must have mangled those envelopes (but no others). When I asked him if my nefarious mail slot also felt bad and taped up the two most recent letters, he just scowled at me and said, "maybe, but it wasn't us!"

Thanks for the support all. I am 80% sure it was the newish postal carrier that took the mail at this point. I have been using the same LOCKED outgoing mail box at my complex for years. The only ones that have a key is USPS as far as I know.

Nothing I can do to prove it though. We have been having issues starting about the time they started doing the route. It was little things up to this point. Like putting boxes in my mail box that I could not get out because it would only fit in on their side. Had a few non card containing letters get bent as well.

From talking to the Post Master in the past they are aware that there is a problem with our carrier, but they need more "proof" before they can do any thing.

Last edited by F3n1x (2015-12-15 21:01:24)