Post Office slow or lost Check

[DCP]

Post Office slow or lost Check

Sent 18 of Aug
So we are at 12 days or 10 working days.

IL to ID

Anyone else with a sad tale?

Thanks

[RayinNH]

I've sent things half way across the country in two days. I've also sent things two towns over and have it take three days. The whole system is a cr@p shoot...Ray

[DCP]

It cost $25.00 to stop payment on the check

This puts the cost of the mold up to $135.00

Paypal would have been a whole bunch cheaper.


This may cost me $25.00 extra dollars because of the USPS

The Question is, how long do I wait to stop payment?

[Three-Fifty-Seven]

I'd wait another week . . . if you trust the seller, I might wait longer, or send another check, and ask the seller to return the second check if it shows up . . . I would not pay $25 to stop payment on a check that small.

Keep checking you bank to see if it has been cashed. (maybe someone else got it?)

[Czech_too]

This is precisely why I've gone to using nothing but postal money orders usually sent with delivery comfirmation. It costs a touch more but I feel more comfortable.
I had one money order, purchased at the bank, that was lost and it was a hassle and costly stopping the payment on it and replacing.

[fecmech]

A few years back I bought a gun from a fellow at the club. He said just send me a check as he lives about 30 miles away and gave me the gun. I sent the check and after a couple weeks it had not arrived so I sent another which did. I think he thought I was BS"ing him until 3 months later the original check showed up! I did not put a stop on it and just had him tear it up.

[chris112]

Had a notifacation of a change in payrate sent supposedly on the 1st of October. It got to me on the 30th which was two weeks after the effective date on it.

[home in oz]

They continue to amaze me with their intermittant service.

[dualsport]

I bet it'll show up. They've misplaced my mail for a while but never lost it. I often send cash for small purchases here to sellers cross country and have never been burned. I know, I'm tempting the devil but it feels so good when a distant stranger comes thru on the up and up. Renews my faith. Funny thing is I'm a pessimist by nature. Feels good when people don't let me down. Never been burned or disapointed buying anything off this forum. Casters aren't lazy, thieves are.

[MT Gianni]

Sent my BIL a check last Dec. He found it in the bushes between his neighbors fence and his when spring came to Wyoming about April. Stuff happins. He doesn't know if it blew out of his hand or the Postmans when they were at the box.

[steg]

Yep, I mostly stick with the postal money order, and confirmation..............steg

[missionary5155]

Good morning
I have mailed numerous checks from here in Peru to numerous cities throughout the 48... they all made. Only one took a unque llama path and furried about for 2 months. Most letters from here get delivered in 8-10 days.

[bgokk]

I don't remember exactly how long ago I sent an $800.00 deposit to a bank in AR from Memphis TN. One of the checks in the deposit was mine. My check has never been cashed. The bank never received the deposit. It's still out there somewhere.

BG

[Changeling]

Except for someone/company I really trust, I pay by Visa/money order. If they don't take it I don't buy.

[wills]

We had an item come back undelivered recently. The first delivery attempt was two days after it we mailed it. The second delivery attempt was 20 days later. What was the post office doing with the item for 20 days? Our mailman told us they are supposed to either deliver the item or return it in 3 days.

[fatelk]

As I posted in the other thread on this in the off-topic forum, we've had at least 3 pieces of mail lost in the mail in the last few years. Make that four actually; a utility payment that actually showed up in pieces a couple months later, a graduation card with a check, a Gunbroker payment (postal money orders from now on- no more bank cashier's checks), and just last month a lost mortgage payment. We pay as much on-line as possible now.

I had a flat-rate envelope full of lead returned a while back. Apparently someone at the PO didn't like a 20 pound envelope, returned it with a note saying I owed another $40 postage or something on it. I took it down to the PO and the postal guy there just shook his head. He said there was no problem with it at all and that he had seen them much heavier. He sent it out again and it went through fine.

[Springfield]

So, if a USPS Money Order gets lost, what is the advantage? Can you stop payment on it easily online? NO. Do you know if it really got there by checking you bank account in case the receiver is trying to rip you off? NO. Can you easily get your money back if you think it is lost? NO. A money Order is mostly for the convenience of the seller not the buyer. I prefer checks. Or better yet, Paypal, gunhaters or not they provide a good service.

[Doby45]

Amen, Springfield. They fuel the gun market if they know it or not. Period.

[white eagle]

sometimes it is our own errors that cause things to not go where they were supposed to
could be as simple as leaving a # off the zip or misspelling a street add or something
but it seems the po gets a bad rap
I just sent something to Canada it made it took awhile but it got there

[tomf52]

Shotguun barrel NJ to North CArolina - 29 days

USPS money order Pa to Maine via Priority Mail - - 17 days (I can drive there in 5 hours)