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Sent a letter with documents that has not arrived after over a week. Filed a search with the USPS and after 3+ days get a email note it's resolved but they have NOT delivered the mail I paid for them to deliver. They have lost it in Delaware apparently - tracking #
9500127029063066110530 . Tomorrow I'll have to go somewhere to fax the documents . Very sad. Last year similar happened but it got delivered finally after my report of issue.

This is what I got tonight-

''I apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you. After investigating the package was not received in this office and we are unable to retrieve this package. In Order to file a clam for a lost package please go to www. usps.com/claims.''
 
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Sorry to hear it, but I am not surprised. I received Christmas card mailed from Austria priorate on December 9, 2022 on March 9, 2023. Exactly three months later.
 

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They occasionally dig up mail that was sent by troops overseas during World War II and attempt to delivery it today.
 

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At Christmas time my SIL mailed both of my Grandsons Cards to my house, ( from 3 towns away). Three days later we received 1, the other took a week and a half!!! :unsure: They were mailed/postmarked the same day!!!
 

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They occasionally dig up mail that was sent by troops overseas during World War II and attempt to delivery it today.
I've also read somewhere that this happens less often that gets reported. Many times these stories happen because someone drops a piece of previously delivered mail back into the system.
 

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I had mail forwarding last summer. A birthday card was mailed to me, but returned to sender as “undeliverable”. She handed it to me a few months later.
 

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Only a week delay? Count yourself lucky. We have been seeing first class letters taking 2-3 weeks to be delivered fairly often in the last couple of years.

Kurt
 

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About ten years ago, we sent a certified mail to an employee who was local. With tracking information, the mail got sent to another city in California and got re-routed many times around the city and a month later, the mail came back to us as undeliverable. It was ridiculous as the address was correct. I went back to the post office and showed it to them, but they insisted that I pay for another round of certified mail with the same address and that they would deliver again. They confirmed that it was a correct address but their system failed somehow. By then, whatever that we wanted to mail to our employee was "expired" and no longer necessary.

Hence whenever I read here that whenever someone sent their rescission letter within the rescission period, that they were fine even when the mail was circulating around, I cringed. Not all mail gets delivered as expected.
 
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A few years ago, my Cpap supplies were shipped to our Wisconsin home but with our Florida zip code. Thus began a 10000 mile trip with the package getting close to Wisconsin Dells, then someone would notice the zip and back it would go to Florida. Back and forth it went many times when our former Florida mail person grabbed it and held on to the battered squashed box of supplies until we arrived back in Florida
 

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Well after faxing my items at Office Depot for ~$11 this morning. Called Chase to inquire if they got my faxed papers . Lady there tells me they also got my Mailed tracked documents on time last Saturday!!! Even tho post office has them arriving late when I look at tracking #...... So they delivered and someone didn't scan into the system?

Good grief

So now Chase has 2 copies, if this is right.
 
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Well after faxing my items at Office Depot for ~$11 this morning. Called Chase to inquire if they got my faxed papers . Lady there tells me they also got my Mailed tracked documents on time last Saturday!!! Even tho post office has them arriving late when I look at tracking #...... So they delivered and someone didn't scan into the system?

Good grief

So now Chase has 2 copies, if this is right.
Faxes. Snail mail. Couldn't you have just scanned your documents and emailed them? (I didn't even know fax was still a thing -- I think the last time I used is was 20+ years ago...)

Kurt
 

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We just got a Christmas card here on Molokai from my sister in law 2 weeks ago. She mailed it a week before Christmas from Wisconsin. :D
 
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Faxes. Snail mail. Couldn't you have just scanned your documents and emailed them? (I didn't even know fax was still a thing -- I think the last time I used is was 20+ years ago...)
Seriously.
Many states have enacted electronic signature laws.
All docs I needed for a mortgage were scanned + emailed.
A construction company I do business with uses Docusign.

Greeting cards, though... can't even fax those.
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Welcome to new low levels of customer service EVERYWHERE. :( The Pandemic has accelerated this downward trend.
 

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Seriously.
Many states have enacted electronic signature laws.
All docs I needed for a mortgage were scanned + emailed.
A construction company I do business with uses Docusign.

Greeting cards, though... can't even fax those.
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Absolutely. We closed on a house two years ago, and didn't have to physically sign a single document through the whole process, including offer, inspections, and final purchase; all handled via DocuSign. And as a bonus we have electronic copies of all our "paperwork" that we can easily save, file, search, etc. Ain't life grand?

Kurt
 

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I’ve had more screwed up deliveries with UPS than the USPS. Best example was a package that started about 100 miles away and traveled 500 miles away then 200 miles away in the opposite direction before returning to the original city and then finally arriving at my house.
 

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Our Amazon deliveries occasionally go to a next-door neighbor.
How hard is it to tell the difference between --54 and --44?
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New low - I mailed five postcards on February 2nd to friends who used my old address on Christmas cards. My new address labels were attached in the middle of text side of the postcard surrounded by text. All were mailed from Colorado to Minnesota.
ONE came back to me in four days, second came back to me in three weeks. Post office couldn’t explain why. Third was delivered to correct address in two weeks and two are still finding it’s way after one and half month. First class stamps, no class service.
 
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Faxes. Snail mail. Couldn't you have just scanned your documents and emailed them? (I didn't even know fax was still a thing -- I think the last time I used is was 20+ years ago...)

Kurt
It wasn't one of their options . We used fax at work all the time, I used work fax for my own things on occasion. But no longer working so that wasn't an option this time.
 

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Faxes. Snail mail. Couldn't you have just scanned your documents and emailed them? (I didn't even know fax was still a thing -- I think the last time I used is was 20+ years ago...)

Kurt
Not everyone has a printer or scanner in their home anymore. Fax is still widely used in many businesses, even real estate transactions.
 

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Not everyone has a printer or scanner in their home anymore. Fax is still widely used in many businesses, even real estate transactions.
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In this day and age, any real estate agent who uttered the words, "Can I fax that to you?" would be fired, immediately. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

My grandmother does not fax anything to anyone. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: It was cutting edge ... in the 1980's.

There is this thing called "email" and there is this thing called "texts".
 

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In this day and age, any real estate agent who uttered the words, "Can I fax that to you?" would be fired, immediately.
I am referring to business to business communications. Fax is faster than scanning, saving and emailing. Your purchase contract likely got to the loan officer via fax.
 

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I am referring to business to business communications. Fax is faster than scanning, saving and emailing. Your purchase contract likely got to the loan officer via fax.
I recently completed a real estate transaction using DocuSign. Difficult to imagine anything "faster" than that. Certainly not my grandmother's dusty fax machine.
 

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I am referring to business to business communications. Fax is faster than scanning, saving and emailing. Your purchase contract likely got to the loan officer via fax.
But almost all business documents are created electronically, so no need to scan, etc. -- just directly send it. Boom! Much faster. Honestly, I hadn't seen the business I recently retired from use a fax in 20 years.

Kurt
 
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