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How do you lose a SADDLE?!?! UPDATE - The lost has been found!

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  • #41
    Yeah, I'm thinking not all UPS stores have the same contract or something. I can look up UPS rates online, and I guarantee you the ones the store charges me are as much as 20% higher.

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    • #42
      I am usually happy with UPS....our local delevery WAS great...notice WAS...he recently retired....the new driver has so far lost 2 packages for us within a week. He either delivered to the wrong address or left them by our mailbox (which is 600 yard thru the woods) I have filed a claim on both...I will win as the driver did wrong. I also have a UPS shipper/drop off location who is great. If we have a problem with a shipment he is right their to help us out. I have never had a problem. Prices are reasonable for large items and insurance.

      USPS priority is great for lighter item but the cost of the insurance is much higher...also do not like the "tracking" Half the time it doesn't get scanned and you cannot see where your package is at...I thing that stinks.

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      • #43
        Yay! Just checked the tracking on the saddle I am waiting for and it says it is here in the city!!! Now - just need to get it in my hot little hands.

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        • #44
          USPS inspector general

          Might want to consider contacting the Postal Service Inspector General. Could be a "bad egg" at the processing facility that your mail routes through. Here where I work we are working with the postal service a situation similar to this and they will set up stings.

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          • #45
            FedEx lost a L'Apogee I won once. Luckily the Seller had insurance and was honest. I often wonder what became of that saddle...

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            • #46
              It sounds like some where there is a huge collection of saddles that no one ever received.

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              • #47
                Well, I just got home and guess where my saddle was delivered? Bearing in mind that it cost $60 to ship plus $12 to insure. It had a tracking number and was supposed to be signed for.

                It was left:

                IN MY DRIVEWAY IN THE SNOW. For who knows how many hours.

                Lovely.

                So, to the OP - check your bushes!

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                • #48
                  They don't lose it, they just misplace it

                  Well, the USPS has some things over UPS; for instance if you live out in the boonies there is always a Post Office somewhere close by, and they do deliver to a lot of places other people won't go. Annoyingly enough I bought an item from Amazon that came in two parts and paid extra for overnight. UPS was there the next day with half of it, but DHL subcontracts with the USPS and the rural route carrier, rather than go the 200' up my driveway, left a note in the mailbox telling me I had to go to the PO to pick up the package and sign for it. So it wasn't quite overnight, and they marked up my Priority Mail about 600%.

                  Now, package wise, CJBean has very good advice. Use good quality cardboard boxes without markings like ORM D or liquor or bleach or paint, because all that stuff is HAZMAT, package services don't like it, they send it to some corner of the building and ship it last. Write on the box with felt pen unless you are absolutely, positively sure the label cannot be torn off, soaked off or otherwise made unreadable. For God's sake don't wrap the box with brown paper unless you want to get brown paper and no box. Always use the stringy package tape on the seams, clear tape is good for covering but has no shear strength, neither does duct tape, if the box gets smacked it might burst open at a seam. Put delivery info inside the box as well, preferably stuck to the item. If the item and the box part company you will have half a chance, otherwise it'll go off to Repair/Recovery, whatever they call it, and depending on which shipper you used you may never see it again. I know the USPS was proud of meeting their delivery standard 92% of the time a while back, but it sure sucks if you are the 8%.
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                    Bump for update
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                    • #50
                      Yeah! I'll be bringing my leathers and stirrups . Can't wait. Sheesh, you're lucky you were able to get it though... still, makes you wonder why nothing was ever left for you (part of the reason why I hate apartments ). Glad you finally got it though!
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