I don't mean to be a dick, but she has sent you 50 packages over the last few years.  Trust me you have posted about every one of them.  Now you're gonna bitch about one getting lost.  I am not fond of the post office either, but in most respects they have taken good care of you.

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I don't mean to be a dick, but she has sent you 50 packages over the last few years.  Trust me you have posted about every one of them.  Now you're gonna bitch about one getting lost.  I am not fond of the post office either, but in most respects they have taken good care of you.

The more I think about this the more aggravated I get. It shouldn't matter how many packages I get. If the post office isn't doing their job and not only lose a package sent to me.... but give the sender a runaround and take forever to get her the insurance she paid for... I should have the right to complain about it. 

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... but in most respects they have taken good care of you.

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2% loss is totally unacceptable.

Meh. Postal services deliver billions of pieces of mail every year, so there is bound to be the occasional bit of mail that gets 'lost'. Man up, allow the insurance to pay up within a reasonable time frame for a large company, and move on with life.

I agree that the mail services shouldn't make it difficult to claim, but you could always use one of the many competitors if you aren't happy with the results of a particular carrier.

The post office service, which had been so stellar for so many years, has become a joke.

They not only lose things, which is only covered if you pay extra for insurance, they way they do things defies logic.

I recently ordered something from amazon, which should have been delivered in 2 business days, and it was sent via the USPS.

It was sent to the nearby Depew office instead of the Buffalo office. Both of these offices are only a few miles away from me and each other.

One would think that the Depew office could make the delivery to my house or at least send it to the nearby Buffalo office.

How did they take care of the problem? They re-routed the package to Rochester, over an hour away, to then send it back to Buffalo.

They ended up sending a box on over a hundred plus miles trip and delayed my delivery by a week.

The pony express would have taken less time to deliver my package - it's no wonder people are flocking to alternative delivery services.

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Indeed you do...have a right to complain I mean.  It always strikes me as funny that people say, "I don't  mean to be a...," then proceed to be exactly that.  If you don't mean to be a dick, don't be a dick, plain and simple.

You seem to have dibs on that position

That I know of, I have only lost at most three pieces of mail only of 15,000-20,000 received in my lifetime. A dozen or so have been delivered to neighbors when the label was not clear.

The weird one for me wasn't with the postal service; instead it was with UPS. I had just moved here. I had a post office box but no mailbox at my home, and I ordered something with no indication of how it was going to be shipped. If it had been via USPS, I would have been screwed with no mailbox; it would have gone back to the post office and sat until I hopefully walked in asking about it. So I gave my p.o. box instead with the assumption if it was UPS or FedEx they would go in and ask for my physical address because they couldn't deliver to p.o. boxes (have had to do that before.) It was supposed to 3 or 4 days as you would expect.

So, here's the route the package took:
1) Shipped from seller's location
2) Arrived for scan at Location B
3) Departed Location B
4) Arrived Location C
5) Departed Location C for my home
6) Returned to Location C due to it being a p.o. box address
[stayed at Location C for 4 or 5 days]
7) Departed Location C traveling to my previous home address
8) Arrived at Location D
9) Departed Location D for my old address
10) Arrived at my old address discovering it wasn't my address anymore
11) Departed Location D for Location C
12) Arrived at Location C
13) Departed Location C or my current home (again)
14) Arrived at my door, having asked my USPS for my local address.

Time: around 2 1/2 weeks
Distance traveled: approx. 2,800 miles

The package was probably like, "Oh thank God that's over!"

Yeah... I have seen some awful strange routes through tracking myself.

I have seen times where it comes East towards me... then backtracks West before coming back East and to me. Makes not sense at all.