I sell the item at MAP, Amazon and another seller sell at 20% below MAP so I haven’t gotten an order for this item in a month. (been reported to the company Amazon is suspended but they bought 100 cases so it will take a while).
Why would someone spend $10 more to buy from me?
The day it was delivered I get a message it came without the contents. It came through ACS so it made no sense and I asked for clarification. 5 days later I get a message with this image
You should have a chat with your local Postmaster, they are in the best position to confirm or allay your suspicious mind. Not only that they have at their disposal, the finest and oldest Police Force in this great Nation of ours The United States Postal Inspection Service. If there has been some funny business, these fine men and women of Law Enforcement will not rest until justice has been served.
We get very few, but they are returned to us not delivered to the customer.
They are in a plastic bag a letter inside. I’ll check our warehouse to see if there are any still
hanging around but this is not what we usually see.
Darn, we were up at our Airport Hub a few years ago, they had a fully armed bearcat vehicle. Gun turret on the roof and all.
I have kicked myself in the butt for not stopping to shoot it (with a camera) it was impressive.
That sticker looks more handmade to me than USPS. As I recall it includes a statement, damaged by the USPS.
One of my team members here, her husband works for the post office. He has solved some interesting “why is it this way” problems. If you hit a roadblock I can ask.
I would ask our postmaster, the one that retired recently, gave us his email. Sadly he is gone.
We have received packages back with a stamp like that, but not sure if we ever received that phrasing. It’s also usually stamped right on the package and not on a sticker.
What is also suspicious to me, is the other package behind it that looks like it was opened in a similar way.
Some very serious heavy hitters. People don’t realize just how NPS Rangers, US Marshalls, USPIS, and Forest Service Investigators can be some very scary dudes when required. Glad they are on my side.
In 22 years in business I have I believe experienced all the issues with USPS. opened or destroyed packages are usually in an official bag or envelope.
As I said this order as soon as it came in raised my scam detector
A search in Google images seems to indicate there are a variety of stamps and stickers for this. This seems like something that would require official uniformity. A stamp with a seal and with the location it was stamped at would be harder to fake than a sticker.
Back when we work at USPS, this would have been marked with a stamp (no seal or location marking) in red ink on the package but that was before most of the computer label printing going on today. The ripped up package would have been put inside another sealed package to finish the delivery with a letter of apology and/or acknowledgement of open package from USPS.
We have got back items with a label for Return to Shipper / Non-deliverable Address with a bar coding placed over the shipping address. It wouldn’t surprise me if a distribution center or larger post office had labels made up for this in today’s world but we would expect some type of bar coding on it.
Small rural post offices still have and use the various ink stamps as they are the last to get any updated equipment.
I have never seen that sticker. I have always gotten these damages in the “We Care” plastic bags, or with a stamp on the package.
Funny story regarding these USPS damage bags… I ordered a gift in December that was fulfilled by an Amazon seller. All I received was the mailing label stuck inside one of the USPS We Care bags… no package, no item, just the label. The seller had their customer service being handled by Amazon and it took 3 chat dialogs and phone calls, plus multiple negative review surveys on my CS experience, to finally get Amazon to refund the lost package. The reps continued to insist the “items were on their way and would be delivered soon”. They just could not understand that a package with no mailing label was never going to be delivered to me.