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[GingerPeach]

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@sailor moon wrote:

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@GingerPeach wrote:

 I already wrote the note but if anyone has any suggestions on wording, I'd love to hear them.

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If your mail carrier is a guy, politely inform him to deliver your package before you kick him in his.

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@sailor_moon

Can you come over and speak to him for me?  

[onewhiteSparrow]

surfk,   Cute story.... wild mind you have.  LOL   

[KarenQVC]

Gosh--the drama.  But, then I remember I would have practically nothing if I didn't shop online.

[homedecor1]

Surfk: I love when things go wrong and we can have a sense of humor! Great story!

I recently refilled a mail order subscription (5 back pain patches 5x5") a few days later this huge styrofoam box came NO return address just stamped perishable!

it was around my hubby's bday he was so excited he opened it thinking he got the Lobstergram kit again -- so disappointed 5 back packages with dry ice packet! I'd say he was excited because we've been married 38 years and he's never opened even junk mail addressed to me!!

That nite it was hot dogs and beans for him!!

[surfk]

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@MyGirlsMom wrote:

I've received packages similar to what you've described.  They originated out of the country and was the handy work of U.S, Customs.  Sometimes they re wrap the package nicely , while other times thy were taped up so tight, you couldn't open them. 

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You wonder how people can work Customs and crank out packages more suspicious-looking than when they stopped them at the border. lol

[surfk]

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@betteb wrote:

Too strange and too funny surfk. So this must have been an Amazon vendor and not something that says, "Sold by XX and fulfilled by Amazon?"

I stick to Amazon or fulfilled by, 'cause I'm a big chicken.

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I don't know. I didn't think I ordered anything in any weirder manner than usual. But whoknows. They may have sent these glasses from the factory direct...or maybe off a dead guy in Italy.

That's the excitement of ordering through Amazon sometimes. You can watch CNN one night and maybe get to see your "new" sunglasses on the face of some mob informant just before s/he was hit by the Nostra Nostra. lol

I should pay more attention to the descriptions on Amazon: "Like new! Barely any forensic evidence remains on these high fashion lenses..."

And that's why I usually shy away from Ebay.

"Bid on this solid 14k gold necklace...worn only once by a drug dealer before being hit in drive-by".

[surfk]

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@GingerPeach wrote:

Now there's a story to share with your co-workers, colleagues, friends in Italy!  Such tension, such drama, and a grand resolution.  Mah-ve-lous!

My USPS story today is just annoying and, so far, has no happy ending.  :-(

The QVC tracking said my package was put into my mailbox today.  I checked.  No package.

Once in a while, mail for my address goes to a home a few streets over.  That street starts with the same letter of the alphabet as my street and the house number is identical.  

I drove to that home but the fellow who lives there said no package came.  (He is a computer-geek type so would not be interested in the Susan Graver multi-chain tassel necklace I was expecting.)

I am leaving a note, written in large letters with a Sharpie, to leave in the mailbox for the mail carrier tomorrow.  I already wrote the note but if anyone has any suggestions on wording, I'd love to hear them.

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"Please locate my USPS-tracked package which you delivered to the wrong address. You very well may have been the cause of my recent stroke since the item enclosed had been life-saving drugs. Thank you for your continued attention to detail."

[surfk]

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@Jackaranda wrote:

So this isn't a Julie Andrews sing a long thread?

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If only!!

Although...come to think of it, someone could always write a revised Sound of Music song which includes the United States Post Office in the lyrics.

Like in the instance of my experience:

What will this day be like? I wonder.
What will my future be? I wonder.
It could be so exciting to be out in the world, to be free
My heart should be wildly rejoicing
Oh, what's the matter with me?

I've always longed for adventure
To do the things I've never dared
And here I'm facing adventure
Then why am I so scared

A USPS package with duct tape and wires.
What's so fearsome about that?

Oh, I must stop these doubts, all these worries
If I don't I just know I'll turn back
I must dream of the things I am seeking
I am seeking the courage I lack...

...to open this USPS package.

[surfk]

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@Justice4all wrote:

'Neither rain nor snow nor heat nor gloom nor ricin....'

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Too funny.

[surfk]

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@homedecor1 wrote:

Well I'm still MAD at post office!!! I very carefully packaged 6 un-used Bath & Body works candles to send to my niece. When I say enough bubble wrap, cardboard, stuffing to pack 4 boxes. Marked the box Fragile/glass even the clerk marked it! Then I sent priority mail because it gets special handling to the tune of $26.90!  Really????

 every one of them was shattered!!! I don't know if they dropped it from a building but there is no way they should have broke!

now I tell her the box is full of broken glass to toss it! I go to PO with my receipt w/insurance -- the claims dept wants to know if I have the original box and contents!!!! What!!!!

then claims decides pics would be OK...then they deny my claim as "not responsible for any glass items!" Gotta love the postal system😁😁😁😁

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I swear, sometimes, when they see FRAGILE on the box, people go ape crazy on it.

Its like an invitation for some people to play hacky sack with one's package.

I had one parcel marked "Fragile" by the sender which I SAW the delivery guy throw over my wall into a rose bush.

It was like I was in a cartoon. I'm out there, minding my own business, sniffing all the pretty flowers when suddenly, over the wall comes this missile.

And again, of course, it had "Fragile" tags all over it.

Makes me wonder if people are passive agrressive or just don't have a grip of the language as to even know what the word means.

Fragile and No Soliciting are cousins in that way. lol