posted on April 23, 2004 11:40:37 AM new
Just saw this story posted. Thought you all might be interested! It makes you wonder if there might be other crooked postal employees out there...
posted on April 23, 2004 07:54:14 PM new
So they take him to jail and put him in denims. What I'm waiting for is when one of those arresting cops lists a German Letter Carrier's uniform on Ebay.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on April 23, 2004 10:47:35 PM new
I used to have a lot of missing packages.
I sell rubber stamps, not the kind with addresses, but the ones that print pictures you would use to make cards or scrapbooks.
They are small, anywhere from 1x1 to 2x2 to 2x4 inches & I mail in bubble envelopes. You could even say that when sealed they feel like little boxes inside.
After I sealed the envelope I would also use a few staples & covered them with tape. If I mailed 100 packages I would "lose" anywhere from 2 to 5 a month in the mail.
From what I've read on EO compared to other sellers this was a really high loss rate.
I was sure that some postal workers were opening the bubble envelopes because the contents felt like small jewelry boxes & since they had to be torn open because of the staples they had to be dumped, not delivered. So I got to thinking, how about I try this & quit using staples, make it easy for someone to open the envelope & check out the contants & see that there is nothing of value inside it could be re-sealed & delivered.
...So I got to thinking, how about I try this & quit using staples, make it easy for someone to open the envelope & check out the contants & see that there is nothing of value inside it could be re-sealed & delivered.
I haven't lost a package since.
Thinking outside the box (pun intended) gained you a positive result. This is also why the wholesale diamond trade sends many shipments through the regular mail uninsured and unregistered in nondescript packages. Much lower rate of theft compared to register or courier services...
We regularly send and receive cash (bank notes only) through the mail and have never had so much as a $ or £ go missing over many, many years.
[ edited by agitprop on Apr 24, 2004 02:38 AM ]
posted on April 24, 2004 10:27:59 AM newagitprop
Amazing that diamonds would be sent via regular mail, but understandable. It would still scare the heck out of me to do it.
I read that diamond merchants often carry the stones around in brown paper lunch bags.
It is a fact that "insured" on a package sends a signal.
