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Gotta give him credit for his cut and paste skills. 

In reading the original ticket linked to by the admin in the thread he started looking for nominations, It looks like you aren't the only one who thinks this way.  I'm curious why so many people feel this way.

The only issue I see arising is if a member on the board is one of the ones in the dispute, but it sounds like the review board will be made up of a few members so there would be others to step in and resolve it in those cases with that member in question having to recuse themselves.

i guess this is when the "alternate" member would be useful

Not a trading card story but still...  I mailed two birthday cards to my Mom at the same time.  One card arrived on Saturday and the other didn't arrive until Friday a week later.  Thicker envelopes have to be hand sorted which will take longer.  The one that arrived a week later was that type of an envelope. Give it time. 

This is one of the reasons I always hand deliver the trades to the teller at my local post office and pay with my debit card so I get an emailed receipt back showing when they were mailed and when the estimated delivery date was.  If there is a question on a trade, I go back to the email and I can show the other member exactly when the post office said it would be delivered.  That's not to say mishaps don't still happen.  I had a case were after a couple trades went missing, one of the traders added tracking on their end.  We traced it to the post office to the next town from me then it went missing.  After an investigation from the post office, there was a story in the news about a person at that location being arrested for stealing mail.  It happens and it's clearly neither trades fault.  What do you do in those cases?  Since the one with tracking was the 2nd set of cards the other trader attempted to send, they offered to send even more but we were both out cards at that point so I told them to just let it go.

Yankeefan714 doesn’t need me to stick up for him, but I will anyway. We have traded three times, and each transaction went extremely well.

As for the post office, sometimes things go south. On one trade, I split up the cards into two PWE. I mailed them at the same time with the same clerk at the same post office. Did they get delivered to my trade partner at the same time? Noooo, of course not. Eight days apart.

I think overall the Post Office has been better the last year or so. However, I still have things take a bit longer than I'd like. FWIW, I did a trade on another site, and my cards from the other trader took *A YEAR AND A WEEK* to get to me. His original postmark was the day after we finalized the trade, but it took the Post Office a YEAR to get the envelope to me!

 

I've traded with both of the people you have called out. Both are good and honest traders in my opinion. I don't think I would go this route after only a month. I think the chances of alienating future traders is pretty high. In a forum like this most of us will choose sides.