It is up to the local postmaster to decide whether to honor the claim. If it is disallowed there are avenues of appeal but what is your time worth? I have had them promptly paid and also denied, just depends on where you are at the time. However, if you think it is worth the $7.00 and change to not have to take the chance then send it Registered Mail.
Rich On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:22:45 EST, aph4...@aol.com wrote: > >In a message dated 12/27/2006 9:35:05 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, >rich-m...@octoxol.com writes: >Well, your post office experiences mirror mine. I have had a claim rejected > even when the packaging >was more than adequate. I will add this little hint though, if it is >something you really want to arrive in >one piece then send it through REGISTERED mail. You will not be >disappointed. >The best approach is to pay for any eBay auction through PayPal with a >credit card. This way you do >have a big hammer over the seller. I tend to not do business with sellers >who will not accept PayPal. I >suspect their refusal is more the "buyer protection" than the additional >charges. >Rich >Although I will agree that in most cases the USPS will be hard to deal with, >I have had a surprisingly good experience with the USPS. I received a >Triumph though the USPS and the seller left the motor on the case and >SURPRISE!!! >the case came broken into more than a few pieces! Obviously, this was most >distressing but I did not want to leave the Triumph with the USPS. So I took >the case to an antique furniture repair place and received a written estimate >for the repair. The shipping box was shown to the local post office and was >deemed to be adequate. Of course, we all know that shipping an intact >Triumph is stupid, to say the least. >Nevertheless, I was reimbursed for the entire repair and my Triumph case is >just fine now! >So the USPS is not totally bad, is it? >---Art Heller >_______________________________________________ >Phono-L mailing list >Phono-L@oldcrank.org >Phono-L Archive >http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ >Phono-L RSS Feed >http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/feed/index.rss >Support Phono-L >http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank
