redskinfan
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posted on June 9, 2001 05:50:02 PM
Since I've discovered that I'm not really protected by paypal with delivery confirmation, I'm not sending priority anymore. I'll get much more customers if they can pay the smaller first class rates anyway. But I have a thousand priority boxes here. Will the post office take them back??
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toollady
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posted on June 9, 2001 05:52:14 PM
My post office gladly accepts my donations to them. I order boxes that they just can't get and I share with them.
I don't see why they wouldn't take them. After all, they belong to the USPS anyway.
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mcjane
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posted on June 9, 2001 06:13:36 PM
I order boxes for our post office because they have a hard time getting them. They just give me their order & I fill it for them & then deliver it to them myself. I'm sure your PO would like to have them.
LOL when you said you wanted to change your used ID. You know I also thought you were a guy. Funny thing, I've often thought of changing mine so no one could tell if I was a guy or a girl.
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tiggressoflove
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posted on June 9, 2001 06:25:11 PM
This is my new id.
Ok, I'll load the boxes up in my car and take em to the post office Monday. It would be nice seeing the floor again.
No one can confuse me for a guy now right??
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revvassago
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posted on June 9, 2001 06:28:35 PM
tigressoflove:
DUDE! How they hangin? 
Just rattlin' yer chain
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Still charging exact shipping fees, and darn proud of it!
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mcbrunnhilde
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posted on June 9, 2001 07:31:46 PM
tiggressoflove,
Either you misspelled "tigress" or you're really into "Winnie the Pooh" characters!!  I think it's very cute the way it is (and I do like it better than redskinfan)!
Without eBay, I might have a real life...
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revvassago
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posted on June 9, 2001 07:36:09 PM
BTW, what is this about Delivery Confirmation not protecting you when it comes to PayPay?
Did I miss something?
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liquid8ter on eBay
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tiggressoflove
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posted on June 9, 2001 07:36:39 PM
mcbrun,
it is my own creation I'm a tigger fan. I didn't want just tiggress, however, and created this name on yahoo and then thought ok, i'll be tiggress too, but evidentally someone liked my name and took tiggress before I could. lol
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packer
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posted on June 9, 2001 07:45:40 PM
I also order boxes for our little PO.
But, I was on the usps site on Thursday placing an order and it was really screwed up. It was ordering stuff for me I did not request. So I tried to delete to what I want then went through the whole ID and address verification and when I got to the submit button the site gave me an error message.
To make a long story short I went through that 3 times before my order was verified.
I got this nightmare feeling that I'm going to get 3x what I ordered.
I ask(warned) the postmaster that we may end up with a whole truck load of boxes and was wondering if we can send them back.
He said NO.
Crap.....I'm going to have to rent some space.
The last time I ordered from them they sent a bunch of stuff I never ordered.
My garage is full now of un-needed PO boxes.
Hey....maybe I can sell them on e-Bay
packer
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Microbes
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posted on June 9, 2001 08:10:16 PM
tiggressoflove:
>No one can confuse me for a guy now right??
Not on the boards anyway.
(Running and ducking) 
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tiggressoflove
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posted on June 9, 2001 08:16:30 PM
It did that error stuff with me too...that's how I ended up with so many. I had only ordered 25...
He seriously said they won't take em back???
Where's my roll of brown paper....
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packer
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posted on June 9, 2001 08:29:13 PM
I'm going to cut mine up for inserts, to put in those large envelopes to mail magazines and sheet music.
Heck with them, they don't want them back, I'll get rid of em.
Can't for the life of me figure out WHY they just wouldn't return them. Especially if the screw-up was theirs.
packer
[ edited by packer on Jun 9, 2001 08:31 PM ]
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wbbell
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posted on June 9, 2001 08:44:10 PM
revwassago there was a thread on this a couple weeks back. Paypal asserts that you must have proof of mailing via an electronic scan and proof of receipt in the same way. It is possible, and a not insignificant probability, that any given package will NEVER get scanned by the USPS. In paypal's eyes, then, the seller guarantee is not applicable even if you can demonstrate that you paid for DC at the time of mailing.
I assume that is what redskinfan is talking about, unless some new devilish information has recently come to light.
Edited to add the URL of the thread I had in mind.
http://www.auctionwatch.com/mesg/read.html?num=2&thread=366984
[ edited by wbbell on Jun 9, 2001 08:58 PM ]
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rampaged
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posted on June 9, 2001 09:02:17 PM
I have also ran into problems ordering electronically, so now I phone in my order. It's just as fast if not faster and I always get what I ordered within 3 - 10 days.
Just dial 1-800-222-1811 and have your customer number ready. It's fast and painless.
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Malady
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posted on June 9, 2001 09:06:51 PM
I am a mail carrier and I have a customer that had ordered ALOT of the priority boxes. When his business went under he put the boxes (most still unopened) out by the mailbox for me. My post office took them back no problem. We had to cross off his name/address on the outer boxes and write 'refused' just in case someone saw them and thought we were holding back mail.
You just need to talk to the right person. Or don't talk to anyone, just take them to your post office and say you refuse delivery (as long as they are still un-opened).
I was told of a customer that has pallets of the LARGE tyvek bags that he does not use. They sit in his parking lot (in the weather) unused. I would just love to get hold of those larger bags...
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tiggressoflove
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posted on June 9, 2001 10:09:46 PM
what i'm talking about, paypal gives this mumbo jumbo about to protect against fraud to deliver to confirmed address and to use delivery confirmation. Then paypal damon himself tells me that since I just have a personal account, even if I prove that the person received the item, I can still have my account penalized just because I'm not "paying for the service." So I will just go back to sending first class and save money. Plus I started having declining sales when I started shipping priority on everything.
I know for a fact that the confirmed address isn't necessarily the real address on the credit card listed with paypal anyway. THAT IS SOMETHING ELSE PAYPAL DOESN'T LET ON. Because once you register the credit card and confirm the address, you can change the address on the credit card to anything and their system does NOT require a second confirmation. I did it myself to test it out.
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immykidsmom
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posted on June 9, 2001 10:41:21 PM
I ordered Priority boxes ONE TIME by their web site. Never again!
I ordered 5 sizes, only one was right and they threw in an entire box of Priority tape and some other screwy item........ it isn't comming to me right now. I had taken them home (grunt puff puff) and just took them back and knocked at the door they hand over large parcels and said "these are the wrong item" and left them in the lobby. The guy didn't seem at all upset. I will try that 800 #, thanks, 1-800-222-1811
boxy ol' Mom
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marlenedz
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posted on June 10, 2001 07:57:09 AM
I go to three different PO's and they all will take them. One lady even told me that they can't get them since they want the customers to buy boxes from their retail store instead. Their latest trick is to put only priority mail tape on the counter. Customers don't know the rules and put the tape all over a bag/box that could easily go first class or parcel post but then they are told "sorry but you put priority tape on them and it must go priority".
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