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[LizzieInSRQ]

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@MezzieStarr wrote:

Why blame the post office? The person opening the return at QVC could have just as easily put the ring in their pocket and marked it empty.

The post office handles millions of packages a day, running down conveyor belts, getting dumped into cargo bins, loaded onto trucks, etc.

Constantly moving quickly to get the mail out. Scan and onto the next stop.

Doubt they have the time to stop and start opening people's packages, steal stuff, repackage the empty box and send it on its way.

But the QVC worker whose job it is to actually open a package?  Oh look, a nice ring, thank you so much sucker, in the pocket, mark it empty. Next.

There's your culprit in my opinion.

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This is what I was thinking. 

[Cakers3]

@MezzieStarr  Another one here thinking the same thing that this theft happened at the Q, not the PO.

[Rose429]

@MezzieStarr 

I focused on the Post Office after looking into mail theft. There r several articles about the problem. An article from 11/15/24 stated thousands of postal workers accused of stealing mail. Many more articles state the same. Could someone at QVC have taken it? Maybe, I don't know. Maybe a sub contractor for USPS. 
  Doesn't matter now. I am the one stuck with the bill and no ring. Lesson learned, don't buy something I can't afford. 
 

[Cakers3]

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@Rose429 wrote:

@MezzieStarr 

I focused on the Post Office after looking into mail theft. There r several articles about the problem. An article from 11/15/24 stated thousands of postal workers accused of stealing mail. Many more articles state the same. Could someone at QVC have taken it? Maybe, I don't know. Maybe a sub contractor for USPS. 
  Doesn't matter now. I am the one stuck with the bill and no ring. Lesson learned, don't buy something I can't afford. 
 

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@Rose429 Don't give up yet. I know it must be a hassle.

[chrystaltree]

I have heard this same story several times recently and I don't for a second think PO employees are stealing.  I think it's QVC employees who process returns.  This is why I would never buy $$$$ jewelry from a shopping channel.  

[chrystaltree]

@Group 5 minus 1 

They might but where there's a will, there's always a way.   There's no perfect way to monitor employees 

[debfau]

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@Rose429 wrote:

@MezzieStarr 

I focused on the Post Office after looking into mail theft. There r several articles about the problem. An article from 11/15/24 stated thousands of postal workers accused of stealing mail. Many more articles state the same. Could someone at QVC have taken it? Maybe, I don't know. Maybe a sub contractor for USPS. 
  Doesn't matter now. I am the one stuck with the bill and no ring. Lesson learned, don't buy something I can't afford. 
 

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@Rose429, you need to dispute this charge with your Credit Card company and let them investigage it; after all you have your receipt where you dropped it off and your daughter can write a statement for you saying she watched you put it in the package.

[AuntMame]

I'm so sorry @Rose429 that this happened to you. Jewelry is often stolen from the mail. I recently purchased a bracelet that was "lost" at a regional USPS center. I filed a lost package search request but it was never found. 

These incidents are such a hassle. I do hope you get your money back. As others have said file a claim with your credit card company. It may have been "lost" in QVC's return warehouse. Good luck! Please keep us updated. 

[NYCLatinaMe]

@Rose429  So sorry this happened to you.  I hope you get a good resolution.  I have a question for in the event I have to return an expensive item, which I have done but not in a while.  Did you use the qvc label and purchase insurance on top?

TIA

[Starpolisher]

@Rose429 

I hope this gets resolved in your favor and in a timely matter. I just wanted to say that when I return something expensive, I always use the QVC label. I also not only tape those brown envelopes, I also staple them and then put tape over it. This way they are not so easy to open. 

Though, you'll probably never know who took the ring, it's like you said, you're the one that's stuck with the bill!

Hopefully,  Karma will come for them!