I would like to tell you about a very nice rip off
that is being presented and carried out by the US Postal Service.
Such is the case with myself as today 6-February 2004 an item I had sent off to the USA months ago which was on the 26-September-2003 by way of first class insured mail to another Ham Buddy of mine in the USA was returned after months of having been supposedly lost by the US Postal Service which has turned out not to have been the case at all how ever what is more that interesting is the reason given for its return !.
The official reason given for the return of this item back to Australia is that :
What this then means is that anything you send to the USA has to be UNINSURED which leaves any Australian customer wide open to being frauded by this rip off.
So this now rip off means that when Australians send item to the USA normally they can't insure their goods that they are posting off against any loss or damage in that if anything does go wrong should an item get lost ,stolen or just is not even being delivered there is NO redress or NO Insurance given to the customer to replace the cost of the item or indeed even the cost of the postage that you paid for the delivery of that item.
We also know that the US Postal Service has got major problems at the present time within their own Postal Service in what appears to be a ring of thieves that are working within the US Postal service to which even mail to a locked bag has gone missing and no one wants to know!.
This along with the US Postal Service costing you more money as well as giving out false advertising as this INSURED GOODS to the USA is on their own web site as the best method of sending good to the USA to this very day 7-2-04 so how do you explain that one !.
However the US Postal Service seems to be also now being able to just walk away with the cost of what ever it cost the customer to send their items in the first place which they paid hard earned cash to them in supposedly have their items delivered let alone having the customer spending more money in trying to find out where that package has gone to which still is costing the customer.
Epilog:
I have to ask as to why would the shard by The US Postal Service after an official complaint was laid here in Australia and fax's sent to them concerning the non delivery of a item that was posted why did the US Postal Service deem it to be lost when it presumably has been sitting on a shelf for 4 months!.
Why then did the US Postal Service go through this shard with Australia Post as well as myself along with the recipient in the first place in even contacting the recipient when obviously it was in your possession all along!.
Perhaps this was just one of the lucky ones after all that made it back so there may be hope out there for the other items I have posted to the US last year after all!....but I will not hold my breath.
Peter 6-February 2004.
The US Postal Service will NO LONGER ACCEPT INSURED ITEMS OF MAIL INTO THE USA.
How ever the US Postal Service is NO LONGER accepting insured items that are being sent to the USA ....don't you think this is just a bit odd!
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So by this statement done by the US Postal Service is a step on their part in trying to eliminate their responsibility to any customer World Wide that is thinking of using the Postal Service to send mail to the USA so be warned you could be leaving youself wide open to being ripped off big time or even feeding a postal ring of thieves!.
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Which now the US Postal Service does not even have to accept any accountability at all is in short just a sham and outright rip off.
