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by: bfh - Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:53 UTC

Technobarbarian wrote:
>
> This is another missing package story, with a twist. I recently
> ordered a new crab trap though eBay. It's a cheap trap and the
> seller is using a cheap shipping service. Yesterday I got a text
> message from the post awful. They had a package for me that was
> sitting in a warehouse somewhere because it had an incomplete
> address. I responded to the text with my full address. The response
> I got was just another copy of the first message. They also
> suggested that I go to a specific page on their website. If I had a
> tracking number this would have been one and done. I didn't. What I
> found was the post office offering a new free service they call
> Informed Delivery. I signed up for that just in case. I don't know
> if that helped but, this morning I got an email from the post
> office with a tracking number. My new trap supposed to be here
> tomorrow.

Hey. Just because you just discovered informed delivery doesn't make
it "new". I've been using it for at least 2 years. And that makes me
wonder just how "new" your trap may be. Probably gonna get it and find
little crab footprints all over it.

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bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.

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by: George.Anthony - Sat, 21 Oct 2023 14:11 UTC

bfh <redydog@rye.net> wrote:
> Technobarbarian wrote:
>>
>> This is another missing package story, with a twist. I recently
>> ordered a new crab trap though eBay. It's a cheap trap and the
>> seller is using a cheap shipping service. Yesterday I got a text
>> message from the post awful. They had a package for me that was
>> sitting in a warehouse somewhere because it had an incomplete
>> address. I responded to the text with my full address. The response
>> I got was just another copy of the first message. They also
>> suggested that I go to a specific page on their website. If I had a
>> tracking number this would have been one and done. I didn't. What I
>> found was the post office offering a new free service they call
>> Informed Delivery. I signed up for that just in case. I don't know
>> if that helped but, this morning I got an email from the post
>> office with a tracking number. My new trap supposed to be here
>> tomorrow.
>
> Hey. Just because you just discovered informed delivery doesn't make
> it "new". I've been using it for at least 2 years. And that makes me
> wonder just how "new" your trap may be. Probably gonna get it and find
> little crab footprints all over it.
>

I have that informed delivery service. Lets me know if I should make the
trek to my mailbox just to pick up trash can fodder. It doesn’t always show
packages though.

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The Post awful steps up its game, sort of, mostly	bfh
The Post awful steps up its game, sort of, mostly	George.Anthony