USPS have destroyed my 24010 racks?! (1 Viewer)

[JP1984]

Never seen this before!

Thankfully....UK tracking is a little less alarming!

Curious to see what the next USPS update is...

"Kill confirmed" or just a pic of some chip trays all smashed up in the back of a USPS truck?

 

[JP1984]

Update...

They've arrived....but they seemingly were destroyed, and replaced by a pair of blue denim jeans...still, at least it's not a ream of paper

 

[davislane]

pics would be helpful

 

[JP1984]

Haha...I'm working on this with the chipper in question as there could be an innocent explanation. But here you go...

That package obviously never contained 20x chip trays so I suspect there's been a mix up and "Melissa" is sitting there wondering why she's got 20x mint 24010 racks

 

[CallingStation614]

First we had #Papergate, now #Jeansgate.. where will this lead, I ask myself

 

[JP1984]

Such a funny tracking update to have thrown in there

 

[cpac54]

Haha...I'm working on this with the chipper in question as there could be an innocent explanation. But here you go...

That package obviously never contained 20x chip trays so I suspect there's been a mix up and "Melissa" is sitting there wondering why she's got 20x mint 24010 racks

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Well, do they fit at least??

 

[surfik]

Well, do they fit at least??

my respons exactly......

 

[JP1984]

Well, do they fit at least??

@mattross1313 said the same thing on whatsapp...

You bastards!

Where is the support in my hour of need?!

I haven't taken them out yet but they are brand new with a tag in...I might have run good if they are worth more than $250!

 

[MatB]

'Destroyed according to sender's instructions'

WTF is that? Postal service watching too many Mission Impossible films.

 

[CallingStation614]

'Destroyed according to sender's instructions'

WTF is that? Postal service watching too many Mission Impossible films.

I ship international via DHL. When generating the label, they ask me what should happen to the shipment in case the parcel cannot be delivered. By default, this is set to "give up" the shipment, basically it gets destroyed. I have to actively select "return to sender - at cost" to avoid the destruction in case of impossible delivery.
This is what likely happened here.

 

[JP1984]

Thanks @CallingStation614 that's interesting, just one small correction however, on this occasion, the sender selected "Destroy the item and replace it with a pair of women's jeans"

 

[CallingStation614]

Thanks @CallingStation614 that's interesting, just one small correction however, on this occasion, the sender selected "Destory the item and replace it with a pair of women's jeans"

Maybe the seller is innocent. Quantum physics teach us that it's entirely possible that those racks simply reappeared as a pair of denims...

 

[JP1984]

Just in case anyone puts 2 and 2 together...the seller has immediately refunded me and is investigating this, no need for any pitchforks. Just a weird USPS cock up it seems.

 

[LeLe]

felt like just a case of misplacing 2 different parcels to the 2 wrong addresses.

At least they don't cost $5k and Jean is definitively a better deal than stack of A4 paper

 

[JP1984]

I agree @LeLe or USPS actually did destroy the racks and then found some jeans in lost property. Not sure we'll ever really know the truth...

 

[JMC9389]

Imagine if a hobbyist website unravels a massive theft ring within the USPS?

I went from ambivalent to believing Spacemonkey after now reading this thread.

 

[LeLe]

I agree @LeLe or USPS actually did destroy the racks and then found some jeans in lost property. Not sure we'll ever really know the truth...

Have you tried looking for www.Denimjeans.com for clues? they might actually worth a lot

 

[TheOffalo]

So many questions!

Was the package already opened on delivery, like it had gotten ripped up in transit?

The top label, I assume it had your name and address (censored with the emoji)? What was on the customs declaration form?

Does the sender name and address match the chipper you’ve been dealing with? Did the sender also ship a pair of jeans to someone in the UK or has no knowledge of these pants … I mean trousers?

Can you see who the sender is on the label mentioning Melissa?

 

[TheOffalo]

I bet this is the result of auto-correct changing “denom” to “denim” somewhere.

 

[JP1984]

I opened it, arrived in perfect condition. Still working it out but it seems USPS take the handwritten label and print a customs form. They then affix that to the package. Somehow they've stuck it to a pair of jeans meant for Melissa, instead of a box of racks meant for me.

The sender info and my info were correct, aside from a postcode typo.

 

[TheOffalo]

Very strange. I’ve shipped international packages to chippers. I print my own labels but even if I didn’t, the post office would print and affix it to the package at the origin point not during transit. My thought was that somehow the label came off your package and got stuck onto the jeans package during automated sorting.

(Meaning potentially that your actual package would be missing its label now. Did the seller by chance include the shipping info inside the package? I’m paranoid about that stuff so I try to always print another label to put inside the box for international shipments or even within the U.S. if high value.)

You probably don’t want to mess with the package or labels during the investigation but I wonder if you can see the address for Melissa. Also the positioning of her name on the label underneath would indicate to me that she’s the shipper and the recipient info is fully covered up by the top label that has your info.

The Melissa label also doesn’t seem to be an international customs form label like the top label, and it’s weird that it’s peeling off at the corner where as the top label seems very securely applied. Maybe the original did come off the box of racks, got stuck to this package but damaged and USPS reprinted and affixed it without checking the info on the Melissa label matched.

Definitely watching with curiosity on this one. And of course hoping you get your racks eventually and/or your seller gets made whole since he already refunded you in full.

 

[gg11]

You'd think by now there'd be a way for their systems and AI to be able to match up a couple reports: "supposed to receive plastic tray -- received jeans" and "supposed to receive jeans -- received plastic trays."

Between this and the paper scandal, I'm now much more apprehensive to buy a high end set of chips and eventually sell my existing ones. What more can both parties do to avoid potential mishaps? Should the community revise its best practices? Any new minimum standards that both parties should request (e.g. photo/video evidence during packaging, shipping, at receipt)?

I'd exclusively opt for in-person transactions if it didn't cut down on supply so much. I'm sorry for both parties (although it looks like the buyer won with a swanky pair of jeans in this case ).

 

[upNdown]

I’ve shipped international packages to chippers. I print my own labels but even if I didn’t, the post office would print and affix it to the package at the origin point not during transit.

I feel like the last time I sent something international, the label I printed had it going to New Jersey?
I dunno, I trusted and magic happened because it made it to Europe.

 

[TheOffalo]

I feel like the last time I sent something international, the label I printed had it going to New Jersey?
I dunno, I trusted and magic happened because it made it to Europe.

You might have used a service that offers discounted international shipping by having your package sent to a central processing site and then bundled with other packages going to the same destination country as one bulk package, and then it's relabeled for the actual destination address and delivered by local carriers / couriers. Pirate Ship offers this service, known as Simple Export Rate, and it's great for lighter-weight stuff (under 4 pounds).

 

[allforcharity]

Paulson 24010 to Levi's 401?

 

[TheOffalo]

Any updates on this?