General Forum

I just got a trade in the mail today that was shipped on August 6th. I knew it would show up eventually as it's not the first time I've traded with this member and I knew he was good. The package arrived with no damage of dirt, obvious signs of getting stuck somewhere. 

Just a little reminder to have some faith in other collectors and even the post office. Even though it took them a while everything worked out fine in the end. 

Some of the cards need scans here, so I guess it's time to start scanning them, once I figure out which ones are actually new...I've gotten a couple from other sources between the time they were shipped and when they arrived!

You never know why a package takes so long sometimes. 

Many, many years ago I purchased a plastic model kit off of ebay. Almost 8 months later it appeared, and the stamps on the postage showed it was shipped when purchased. No idea why it took so long...could have fallen off a conveyor belt, lost behind a bin who knows, but it did arrive.

Well said Billy.

I had a package of cards go missing for about 3 months. It was only traveling to me from a few states away. I had done several trades with the sender, so I wasn't worried about whether he shipped or not. But he did have Delivery Confirmation on it (it was several years ago). Eventually he shared the # with me so that we could both complain about it and get the USPS to find it. It had made it to the closest sort facility to my house. So there were only 2 places it could have been, there or my local PO. After 2 months of both of us contacting the USPS about the package, they found it on the floor in a corner of the sort facility. It had been pushed off the conveyor belt by other packages. The package also wasn't damaged or marked up. Who knows how long it would have taken if we had left them alone to randomly find that package some day. It was a triple-digit BV trade package, so we both wanted to get it found. That experience became the #1 reason that I always using tracking on my card packages and request the same in return. Without that number, we would have had nothing to go on and neither would the USPS.

I'm at 11 months on an eBay purchase.  I don't even remember what the cards were anymore.

I had a recent trade here.  When we checked the tracking number, it made it to a facility close to me, then got shipped to Southern California, and back, and then to SoCal again and back before it finally got delivered.

Jimmy V's message doesn't quite have the same impact when you find out he was just taking about the USPS.

Another one I recall now. Back when I was still living in Windsor I made a trade with somebody just outside Detroit, so literally 5-10 miles apart. But...because it had to cross the border the tracking on my incoming package showed it first went from Detroit to Chicago, then to JFK in New York, flown to Toronto, sorted in Mississauga, then delivered to Windsor. Package could have arrived just fine with a sling shot over the Detroit River.