• 10k worth of SNES cartridges for preservation lost in post
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[QUOTE=Ajacks;51825884]This isn't news. Someone tried to save a few dollars by not insuring for the full amount and lost. He should have forked over for the proper insurance and put a concrete value on it ahead of time. Combine proper insurance with the electronic sign on delivery, and Restricted Delivery and he would have been fine. There's no way that he'll get anything beyond the 1,000 euro's it was insured for, it doesn't matter after the fact if you try and prove it was actually worth 7,000-1,0000 euro through your own calculations. I've never had one problem with USPS and I ship hundreds of dollars of stuff a week to customers.[/QUOTE] I ship about the same amount and have quite a few issues with them. Them 'inspecting' media boxes and leaving out a few books. (Happens rather often.) Lost packages. Just had one show up after an entire year lost. Damaged packages - i have had to do refunds over this issue, USPS wouldn't cover a smashed box that was insured. Some are just local issues. I have put out packages in my box, prepaid, flag up, just for them to drop off new mail and not take them.
[QUOTE=FordLord;51831605]I ship about the same amount and have quite a few issues with them. Them 'inspecting' media boxes and leaving out a few books. (Happens rather often.) Lost packages. Just had one show up after an entire year lost. Damaged packages - i have had to do refunds over this issue, USPS wouldn't cover a smashed box that was insured. Some are just local issues. I have put out packages in my box, prepaid, flag up, just for them to drop off new mail and not take them.[/QUOTE] Media mail is a specific animal though. They open those randomly to make sure you're properly following Media mail rules, that is only shipping approved forms of media that contain no advertisements at all, only purely educational content. People abuse the media mail system all the time, shipping games and movies and periodicals. But even then they usually update the postage to priority and send you a bill for the difference. I've never had a problem with media mail myself. I've had more package damage from UPS though than I have from USPS. Fedex and DHL are always careful from my experience though.
[QUOTE=Ajacks;51831748]Media mail is a specific animal though. They open those randomly to make sure you're properly following Media mail rules, that is only shipping approved forms of media that contain no advertisements at all, only purely educational content. People abuse the media mail system all the time, shipping games and movies and periodicals. But even then they usually update the postage to priority and send you a bill for the difference. I've never had a problem with media mail myself. I've had more package damage from UPS though than I have from USPS. Fedex and DHL are always careful from my experience though.[/QUOTE] To expand on this, advertisements matter because postage is more expensive on them than content. Pretty much the only reason.
[QUOTE=Ajacks;51831748]Media mail is a specific animal though. They open those randomly to make sure you're properly following Media mail rules, that is only shipping approved forms of media that contain no advertisements at all, only purely educational content. People abuse the media mail system all the time, shipping games and movies and periodicals. But even then they usually update the postage to priority and send you a bill for the difference. I've never had a problem with media mail myself. I've had more package damage from UPS though than I have from USPS. Fedex and DHL are always careful from my experience though.[/QUOTE] I shipped a Laserdisc player with FedEx and when it arrived it looked like they'd thrown it onto pavement from the back of a truck. They told me the damage must have occurred after delivery. Fuck FedEx.
Update Bump: The games have been found and delivered! [t]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5X0VfpUYAAn349.jpg[/t] [t]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5X0WRfVUAECqkv.jpg[/t] [quote][i]Success?[/i] On February 21st, I received an e-mail on the missing mail search I had submitted on January 30th, informing me that my package had been located! Excited, I contacted my CA rep. [i]Failure?[/i] ... who then proceeded to tell me that the search had failed, and that the e-mail notification was errant. However, she promised to request all possible locations the package could have ended up at to do one last search. [i]Success again?[/i] The CA rep called me late in the day advising that someone in the Atlanta, GA mail recovery center had just now located my package! Thankfully, the photographs I took of the packages before sending back the first batch of 100 games proved useful with exact appearance, dimensions, weight, etc being available for the search team. Still, given all the constant ups and downs, I wanted to wait until the package was in hand before giving anyone any false hope. [i]Success for real![/i] Finally, today, February 23rd, the ordeal is finally over! The package arrived safely, with all games in-tact. [/quote] Source: [url]https://byuu.org/emulation/preservation/found-package/[/url]
[QUOTE=ChrisR;51865137]Update Bump: The games have been found and delivered! [t]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5X0VfpUYAAn349.jpg[/t] [t]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5X0WRfVUAECqkv.jpg[/t] Source: [url]https://byuu.org/emulation/preservation/found-package/[/url][/QUOTE] I'm glad this has had an happy ending.
Eeeey would you look at that. Glad that they found it and he can continue on his preservation!
Such a satisfying photo. Imagine how he felt when he finally got it delivered.
I wonder where it really was all this time...
[QUOTE=matt000024;51865733]I wonder where it really was all this time...[/QUOTE] from what i've read, atlanta GA instead of somewhere in ohio
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