General Forum

I bet there are some mail sorters out there with some kick ass card collections at our expense.

I worked for the USPS for 12 years. The pay is quite good, with healthcare, 401k match plus pension, and up to six and half weeks' paid vacation. (208 hours PTO).

Some people, though, thrive on "getting over." Some people call out and hardly come to work, so that their take home pay is so low they qualify for government assistance. But they keep the job for the healthcare benefits.

Something similar happened to me a while back.  I had a couple trades go missing.  One of the traders send me replacement cards and included tracking on them.  We watch as it made it to Nashua, NH then MIA.  I went to my local post office and thanks to the tracking they were able to see exactly where the package was up to the Nashua office where it went into a bin, went off camera and then never showed again.  Few weeks later I saw in the news that a Nashua employee was arrested for mail theft so while I never got the cards and the person I traded with ended up out a second set of cards, we were able to catch the person responsible for taking them.

My advice, if you suspect mail theft in your area, offer a few extra cards incentive for a trader to spend the little extra for tracking on the other end, and perhaps you'll be able to catch them in the act.