Anyone else done buying because of shipping issues?

IceTrae11 · 03-26-2021, 04:08 PM

I've had over a dozen cards ($1500ish in value) "Delivered" that I have never seen. The crappiness started last fall with USPS, UPS, FedEx, doesn't matter my home, my box or office, including multiples requiring signature confirmation that were signed for by "C. Covid". Escalating has led nowhere, so at this point I am done buying cards. Anyone else feeling the same way?

PKIPP · 03-26-2021, 04:18 PM

I didn't buy anything for a few months because of the usps shipping situation besides a rare card that I've been searching for years for. Ended up taking 3+ weeks. Sat at the same 2 facilities in Baltimore and Detroif for over a week at a time each. This was a pretty high $$ card and I was sweating it the entire time. 2 days later I ordered a common base card for a dollar PWE and figured even if it takes 2 months idc it's only one dollar... Showed up in less than 48 hours lol..

I've ordered a few more things in the past week and they seem to be back to somewhat normal shipping times again, at least that's been my luck.

SupermanBrandon · 03-26-2021, 04:21 PM

Hate to hear that. I've both shipped and received thousands of card packages in the past 2 years. Ive only had 3 issues...3 total. All damaged in transit (1 shipped & 2 received).

mc1 · 03-26-2021, 04:27 PM

Ive had Zero issues.

Maybe you live in a neighborhood with lots of porch pirates.

Siberian13 · 03-26-2021, 04:35 PM

No issues here. Where in Atlanta you you live? When you say your box do you mean PO Box?

JWinn · 03-26-2021, 05:08 PM

No issues with USPS here.

Cards, prescriptions, food, even tire chains that came in today a day early.

My last card was a few days late as the seller needed a reminder to ship, and took a week to get it into the mail. He sent it from LA on Friday, and I got it Monday.

USPS seems pretty good lately.

The chains came FedEx. They were scanned in Memphis yesterday afternoon around 3:00. Delivered outside Denver at 2:05 today.

I had a UPS driver deliver a box on Tuesday, a day late. He just set it on the driveway and drove away. That could have been easily stolen, but we heard and felt the big brown truck as he pulled away. No knock, or ring of the doorbell. He didn't even bother to walk it up 15 or 20 feet to the porch. Just set it outside the truck and drove off. A waffle maker that weighs all of three whole pounds.

Must have been exhausting lifting it out of the truck......

The chains were about 8 pounds, set by the front door, with a ring and run delivery.

carrollm09 · 03-26-2021, 05:16 PM

You can contact your local post office and they can hold all signature confirmation packages (or all packages, probably) rather than have them "delivered to agent". I know for me, "delivered to agent" means left in the entryway of a busy apartment unguarded. I try to sympathize with postal workers, but the signature confirmation "extra" is a load of crap right now. Our guy won't even bother knocking.

Also, I write on all packages requiring signature confirmation "DELIVERY TO AGENT NOT AUTHORIZED".

ninjacookies · 03-26-2021, 05:17 PM

No issues as a buyer here.

However, multiple issues as a seller with the new Ebay standard envelope system. Several haven't arrived in weeks and some with just a single acceptance scan and nothing else. USPS seems to be clueless with the new tracking number format as well.

RogerGodahell · 03-26-2021, 05:36 PM

Strange, no issues on my end. Maybe one of your buddies or someone who knows you collect cards might be ripping you off by singing for your stuff? I'd get one of those door cameras the Ring or whatever they're called.

jcardstore · 03-26-2021, 07:28 PM

If you have 12+ transactions worth over $1500 in value delivered but you don’t have them it’s a you problem. Either someone is stealing them from you or something... else... is happening.

I’ve never had a problem with packages

asujbl · 03-26-2021, 07:36 PM

Nope.

IceTrae11 · 03-26-2021, 09:10 PM

I’ve had thousands of successful deliveries to my office and apartment box as well as some to my home address, never lost a thing even through COVID peak with some longer delivery times. Wasn’t until last October stuff started being marked delivered before I even see the mail trucks and the driver just wont have all my packages. I’m in metro Atlanta.

My missing Kobe auto is under investigation, rest are pending.

JWinn · 03-26-2021, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by IceTrae11

I’ve had thousands of successful deliveries to my office and apartment box as well as some to my home address, never lost a thing even through COVID peak with some longer delivery times. Wasn’t until last October stuff started being marked delivered before I even see the mail trucks and the driver just wont have all my packages. I’m in metro Atlanta.

My missing Kobe auto is under investigation, rest are pending.

Wait-- office, apartment, AND another home? How many zip codes are we talking about?

I'd contact the Postal Inspector in your area.

Sounds like a new postal employee with greedy hands. Especially if it's just in one zip.

IceTrae11 · 03-26-2021, 10:15 PM

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Originally Posted by JWinn

Wait-- office, apartment, AND another home? How many zip codes are we talking about?

I'd contact the Postal Inspector in your area.

Sounds like a new postal employee with greedy hands. Especially if it's just in one zip.

Same zips, apartment across the street from office, home close by, all packages appear to be originating from same mail center

Spartyon · 03-26-2021, 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by SupermanBrandon

Hate to hear that. I've both shipped and received thousands of card packages in the past 2 years. Ive only had 3 issues...3 total. All damaged in transit (1 shipped & 2 received).

Thread is fake news, this ^^^ is more like my experience. Thousands of packages, hundreds of thousands in value. Had to refund 5 or so people for a total of maybe $500. Haven’t had anything lost on its way to me. Have had things take 3+ weeks, but I’m not a flipperboi, I gots patience

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IceTrae11 · 03-26-2021, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Spartyon

Thread is fake news, this ^^^ is more like my experience. Thousands of packages, hundreds of thousands in value. Had to refund 5 or so people for a total of maybe $500. Haven’t had anything lost on its way to me. Have had things take 3+ weeks, but I’m not a flipperboi, I gots patience

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What a cool story, thank you for the bump. So far the longest I've had to wait for a card was 6 months from a service member in the Middle East, that was a couple years ago though

Arianny_Fan · 03-26-2021, 10:50 PM

Well, I'm waiting for a $500 card going on 2 weeks. Package is stuck in Memphis out of all places. I know they've been hit with a pretty bad storm. Thoughts for those people involved. If the card doesnt get here within the 30 days, I'm forced to open an ebay case which I dont blame anyone but the storm. Other than that purchases have been smooth the past couple months.

dictoresno · 03-26-2021, 11:32 PM

of the 600+ ebay transactions, 100 or so FB and 17 myslabs, ive had maybe one or two snags that got rectified on their own. and of all the thousands of purchases ive made across all sites, ive never had a lost USPS package. a few close scares, but all were found or redirected.

BigZigBoom · 03-26-2021, 11:57 PM

OP. See my thread on the same issue. Well, we are both in Atlanta.

JWinn · 03-27-2021, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by IceTrae11

Same zips, apartment across the street from office, home close by, all packages appear to be originating from same mail center

Yup, definitely contact the Postal Inspector.

I knew a guy who was a carrier for years start stealing cards in the mail. They got him with a sting and fired him. It's a long story, but suffice to say they somehow knew he would steal a package that appeared to be from Topps. Even had the right return addy for an NPN back in the day.

It was really an electronic card that had a mousetrap like device that popped when he opened it. They picked him up about five minutes later.

Almost twenty years between the USN and the USPS, down the drain.

It's not hard to think a postal employee is stealing things small enough to remove without attracting too much attention, yet obviously contains something flippable.

Like puffy a from Probstien, or something like that, that would fit easily into a purse. Post offices don't have the security of the US Mint.

He or she probably steals all kinds of things.

It's unlikely you have someone outside the USPS system who is somehow tracking your incoming packages, and know which ones to steal. Gotta be someone on the inside.

I have another friend who used to BE a postmaster in her small town. She was really upset when our old friend got busted. And she had a LOT of stories about postal employee theft of mail.

It's nothing new, but you must let the right people know.

03-26-2021, 04:08 PM	#1
IceTrae11 Member Join Date: Jun 2019 Location: Atlanta Posts: 534	Anyone else done buying because of shipping issues? I've had over a dozen cards ($1500ish in value) "Delivered" that I have never seen. The crappiness started last fall with USPS, UPS, FedEx, doesn't matter my home, my box or office, including multiples requiring signature confirmation that were signed for by "C. Covid". Escalating has led nowhere, so at this point I am done buying cards. Anyone else feeling the same way?

03-26-2021, 04:18 PM	#2
PKIPP Member Join Date: May 2018 Location: Michigan Posts: 4,980	I didn't buy anything for a few months because of the usps shipping situation besides a rare card that I've been searching for years for. Ended up taking 3+ weeks. Sat at the same 2 facilities in Baltimore and Detroif for over a week at a time each. This was a pretty high $$ card and I was sweating it the entire time. 2 days later I ordered a common base card for a dollar PWE and figured even if it takes 2 months idc it's only one dollar... Showed up in less than 48 hours lol.. I've ordered a few more things in the past week and they seem to be back to somewhat normal shipping times again, at least that's been my luck. __________________ i collect Miguel Cabrera, Detroit Tigers, Carmelo Anthony, Donovan Mitchell, Detroit Pistons Follow me on IG: Cardboard_vault

03-26-2021, 04:27 PM	#4
mc1 Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 11,179	Ive had Zero issues. Maybe you live in a neighborhood with lots of porch pirates. __________________ B.I.D.

03-26-2021, 05:16 PM	#7
carrollm09 Member Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Poughkeepsie, New York Posts: 248 partypixiedesigns	You can contact your local post office and they can hold all signature confirmation packages (or all packages, probably) rather than have them "delivered to agent". I know for me, "delivered to agent" means left in the entryway of a busy apartment unguarded. I try to sympathize with postal workers, but the signature confirmation "extra" is a load of crap right now. Our guy won't even bother knocking. Also, I write on all packages requiring signature confirmation "DELIVERY TO AGENT NOT AUTHORIZED". __________________ https://flic.kr/s/aHsmVm1hPW PC cards available for trade up only. Last edited by carrollm09; 03-26-2021 at 05:19 PM.

03-26-2021, 05:17 PM	#8
ninjacookies Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: All the girls see the (boi)/ Look at his flips / Look at his kards / All they say is (oh boi). Posts: 56,358	No issues as a buyer here. However, multiple issues as a seller with the new Ebay standard envelope system. Several haven't arrived in weeks and some with just a single acceptance scan and nothing else. USPS seems to be clueless with the new tracking number format as well. __________________ #5 world ranked Ledell Eackles superclection as recognized by Tuff Stuff junior managing editor, Barry McCaulkinner. Somethin' like a cross between Teddy Aguhob and Kaboom Mystery Packs. I got that Givenchy denim flow.

03-26-2021, 04:21 PM	#3
SupermanBrandon Banned Join Date: Dec 2018 Location: TN Posts: 15,843	Hate to hear that. I've both shipped and received thousands of card packages in the past 2 years. Ive only had 3 issues...3 total. All damaged in transit (1 shipped & 2 received).

03-26-2021, 04:35 PM	#5
Siberian13 Member Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 75,813 shiller13	No issues here. Where in Atlanta you you live? When you say your box do you mean PO Box?

03-26-2021, 05:08 PM	#6
JWinn Member Join Date: Jul 2019 Location: A little south of Denver Posts: 186	No issues with USPS here. Cards, prescriptions, food, even tire chains that came in today a day early. My last card was a few days late as the seller needed a reminder to ship, and took a week to get it into the mail. He sent it from LA on Friday, and I got it Monday. USPS seems pretty good lately. The chains came FedEx. They were scanned in Memphis yesterday afternoon around 3:00. Delivered outside Denver at 2:05 today. I had a UPS driver deliver a box on Tuesday, a day late. He just set it on the driveway and drove away. That could have been easily stolen, but we heard and felt the big brown truck as he pulled away. No knock, or ring of the doorbell. He didn't even bother to walk it up 15 or 20 feet to the porch. Just set it outside the truck and drove off. A waffle maker that weighs all of three whole pounds. Must have been exhausting lifting it out of the truck...... The chains were about 8 pounds, set by the front door, with a ring and run delivery.

03-26-2021, 05:36 PM	#9
RogerGodahell Banned Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Cardboard Enthusiast Posts: 20,783 RogerGodahell	Strange, no issues on my end. Maybe one of your buddies or someone who knows you collect cards might be ripping you off by singing for your stuff? I'd get one of those door cameras the Ring or whatever they're called.

03-26-2021, 07:28 PM	#10
jcardstore Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Posts: 21,587 Jcardstore	If you have 12+ transactions worth over $1500 in value delivered but you don’t have them it’s a you problem. Either someone is stealing them from you or something... else... is happening. I’ve never had a problem with packages __________________ Just moonwalking through hell on my last brain cell

03-26-2021, 07:36 PM	#11
asujbl Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 61,793 ohiosundevils	Nope. __________________ https://ohiosundevils.smugmug.com/ Browns/Cavs/Tribe/Buckeyes/Jackets/Devils TheFrenzy - “Blowout ain't a place for normies”

03-26-2021, 09:10 PM	#12
IceTrae11 Member Join Date: Jun 2019 Location: Atlanta Posts: 534	I’ve had thousands of successful deliveries to my office and apartment box as well as some to my home address, never lost a thing even through COVID peak with some longer delivery times. Wasn’t until last October stuff started being marked delivered before I even see the mail trucks and the driver just wont have all my packages. I’m in metro Atlanta. My missing Kobe auto is under investigation, rest are pending.

03-26-2021, 10:50 PM	#17
Arianny_Fan Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: On a rock in the middle of the sea. Posts: 3,568 basketballfiend	Well, I'm waiting for a $500 card going on 2 weeks. Package is stuck in Memphis out of all places. I know they've been hit with a pretty bad storm. Thoughts for those people involved. If the card doesnt get here within the 30 days, I'm forced to open an ebay case which I dont blame anyone but the storm. Other than that purchases have been smooth the past couple months. __________________ IG: @basketballfiendcards @ariannycelestecards Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/139631202@N06/albums

03-26-2021, 11:32 PM	#18
dictoresno Member Join Date: Jul 2017 Location: NJ Posts: 4,262 smzcards	of the 600+ ebay transactions, 100 or so FB and 17 myslabs, ive had maybe one or two snags that got rectified on their own. and of all the thousands of purchases ive made across all sites, ive never had a lost USPS package. a few close scares, but all were found or redirected. __________________ myslabs.to/smzcards

03-26-2021, 11:57 PM	#19
BigZigBoom Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Posts: 1,838	OP. See my thread on the same issue. Well, we are both in Atlanta.