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Post by stampgeezer on Jan 25, 2014 18:51:42 GMT
This is quoted from Linn's:
Customer service concerns? What is going on?
Theron
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Post by Admin on Jan 25, 2014 19:02:53 GMT
The problem with sending registered mail to the states is that it does not get signed for. When You look up to see if its been delivered you cant tell if the person received it or not. probably a lot of complaints and its cheaper to down size customer service and introduce a higher cost of mailing Xpresspost . A few years ago I sent a registered letter to Don ncbucki and he found it mixed in with his junk mail . It seems the usps wont have registered mail from Canada signed for on delivery, I guess there has been plenty of insurance claims, let alone scams. Lets see I will send a letter to Joe registered insured for $100, both I and Joe know there will be no proof of delivery, open a claim and split the money, the only outlay is the cost of registered that's a very high return. Of course Canada Post don't want that type of thing in the news.
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Post by stampgeezer on Jan 25, 2014 19:11:38 GMT
Thanks Jack, I must be simple minded. I would never think of doing that. I also cannot imagine why the USPS will not have the registered mail signed? ? Theron.
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Post by stampgeezer on Jan 25, 2014 19:28:21 GMT
When I got my latest package of goodies from LB1, he sent it registered and I did have to sign for it. So why would Canadian be different from Israeli registered mail???
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Post by PostmasterGS on Jan 26, 2014 2:23:04 GMT
Several years ago, the USPS changed its system for handling foreign registered mail to save money. Most registered is handled securely from the foreign country to the initial US processing center, and from the local PO to your door. But from the processing center to the local PO, it's lumped in with the regular mail.
For this reason, the German collecting community sent out notice in 2011ish to avoid registered, as it was actually less secure than first class. Having "registered" on the package was the equivalent of "steal me." Thieves working at the processing centers steal the registered mail looking for cash.
Many German sellers will no longer ship to the US for this reason, and I have to use third party shipping services to buy from them. Overall, I've lost about half a dozen items which "disappeared" in the processing center at JFK airport.
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Post by Philatarium on Jan 26, 2014 2:45:30 GMT
What PostmasterGS said. Several of us who used to be active on the old eBay stamp board learned that this started a few years ago (maybe 5 or so?) after one of our active members lost something that was mailed registered from Switzerland. He investigated and learned of this dumping into the regular mail stream. We tried to raise the alarm as loudly as possible on other discussion boards at that time.
Personally, I hope other countries' post offices do the same thing and stop allowing registered mail to the US. Maybe eventually the USPS will change their policy. In the meantime, you're just mailing something with a "steal me" sticker on it.
I finally concluded the best thing to do was to mail something first class and just use 3rd-party private insurance to cover it. And those insurance companies don't want you to mark the envelope in any way with anything that would imply that it has value, so I think those items travel more safely. I can't control what gets sent to me, but when I mail something out, I try to make it look like a personal letter, a greeting card, or a business letter. If I use stamps at all, I only use current commemoratives (or, on international mail, the new round definitives).
-- Dave
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Post by stampgeezer on Jan 26, 2014 4:11:54 GMT
Absolutely amazing. When I worked at the USPS, no registered mail ever went from one person to another without a signature. Of course, when I left it was 1976. I guess I'm lucky the LB1 registered letter arrived.
Theron.
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What I collect: Worldwide stamps/covers, Cinderellas, Ohio Prepaid Sales Tax Receipts, U.S. WWII Ration ephemera
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Post by tomiseksj on Jan 26, 2014 12:47:53 GMT
Here is the Post&Parcel article that was referred to in the Linn's story:
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