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Let's not forget this happened: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/02/usps_recovers_lost_package_containing_usd10000_in_rare_snes_cartridges http://www.ninte
by gargravarr 7y ago
Let's not forget this happened: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/02/usps_recovers_lost_package_containing_usd10000_in_rare_snes_cartridges http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/02/usps_recovers_lost_...
Their initial response? A mere shrug and halfhearted condolences.
I've had a package lost through eBay's Global Shipping program. It was a very hard-to-find add-on for my car stereo and I found one in America. A few days after it shipped, tracking data ended just outside NY. A few days later, I pinged them, asking where my package was - after all, the tracking data was scanned at each location, it gave a reasonable pinpoint for the last known location. Instead, overnight, I was refunded and the case was closed. I didn't ask for that, I asked them to find my package, but they washed their hands of it; I wanted the thing I bought, not the money back, but it mattered not. What's the point in tracking packages if they can't even use it when it's needed most!
It was also infuriatingly difficult finding the right place to ask a question now that companies are running their own shipping segments. They're neatly hidden in amongst the massive company logistics.
- pavel_lishin 7y agoI can't imagine shipping $10k worth of nigh-irreplaceable items through the mail. I wonder how much it cost, and if it wouldn't have made more sense to just pay for an airline ticket from Germany to the US and back.
- Spooky23 7y agoThe only way to do that is registered mail, which is expensive and slow, but provides a documented chain of custody for every human who touches the package.