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Can’t imagine I am the first to do it. A quick google search on the topic wasn’t helpful. Has anyone else made the same blunder, and what happened?
I assume I just got to wait it out, it wasn’t a high value item, so I am not that concerned. But it still stinks.
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How did you manage to leave it there? Wouldn’t the clerk taking the packages from you notice? Or do you leave before your packages are scanned? Or maybe you use one those kiosk things I’ve heard about but never seen?
My first guess would be to call the PO in question – they probably set it aside when they went to scan it.
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I printed a Fed Ex label on eBay and then dropped it in the mail drop.
Call the post office? Adorable. I don’t think there is a way to call the office.
I’m assuming they will either forward to Fed Ex, send back to me postage due or loose it in the back somewhere for a decade.
i may stop by on Monday to make an inquiry.
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One of the cashiers at my post office told me that FedEx actually comes by daily; I think for Smartpost. You might be fine.
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FedEx SmartPost packages do go to the USPS for what is called ‘last leg delivery”. FedEx does not fo out and do the one on one delivery of SmartPost but pays the USPS to do it. So they are in and out of the USPS Offices frequently.
There has been a few posts here on SL but years ago, good luck finding it, but if I remember, USPS will take the package to FedEx so it gets scanned in the FedEx system, so tracking number will be late, but then, FedEx will fly to closest hub and then take to the closest USPS hub for the last leg.
Unsure on the other classes of shipments other than SmartPost or Home Delivery.
There is a local phone number for most local USPS offices. Go to this link:
Then put in your zip code and select Post Office for “Type” and then select a distance from you and “Go”. You will get a list of every PO within that radius, what their hours are, milage from you, a local phone number and what services they provide. AND as you said if it is your local PO, just drive down and pop in.
I also suggest the following as a good business policy. I made sure I went to my local PO years ago, asked for the local Post Master or Senior Staff, introduced my self, told the m what I do, how best for them to handle my volume of boxes, informed them of Ebay policies that we required as Top Rated Sellers Plus Power sellers. They listened, made suggestion and we all became friends. We now have a special counter space inside where any Pre-Paid packages from any online seller can by pass any lines, walk right up front to that counter and place all our packages on the large counter. And at periodic intervals when any of the clerks get a free moment, they step down to the end of the counter and scan stacked packages there and drop them into a large canvass rolling cart. When full they pull that into the back and bring out a new, empty one.
Also now, we have a great relationship with the field carrier [Beth] and all we do is clip a laminated sign we keep inside our roadside mail box that says “Packages on the Porch” and for the occasional subs, it also says “Please scan here as our Ebay Discount Depends on It”.
Since we talked to and become friends with the Post Master and discussed this with her, she approved of this practice. The PO also does Hard Counts several times a year and having more packages on a residential route actually helps the PO place a value on the route.
Don’t forget, the USPS is your business partner. It is a big part of “your shipping dept.”. You are also a “customer” of theirs. So don’t ever be afraid of contacting them and discussing your business. They are a vendor of yours. You are sub-contracting part of your business to them.
I strognly suggest you go see them in person. Ask about your particular situation and then discuss other questions you have, even if you already know the answer, ask for their opinion. Build that “Vendor Relationship”, they work for you.
Good luck on your main focus. I think they will be able to tell you where it is and what to expect.
Mike – MDC Galleries
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Oh – interesting. My post office no longer has a way to drop packages off except via a clerk.
Is there no direct line / local phone # listed for your post office on the USPS website under “Find Locations”? I just checked one Manhattan post office just to see if things are different in a big city (I’m in a rural area), and I did find a local number for it there.
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My post office clerk told me once that this happens every day with both Fed Ex and UPS (and vice versa). Every day when the Fed Ex / UPS driver is there, they just exchange the packages with each other.
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I had a late delivery ding for an item that took 5 days; I realised last night that the clock on these ‘5 days’ started ticking the moment I paid for delivery, and maybe I should hold off doing that until just before I go to the post office.
I suppose if I posted an item, waited a couple of days and then purchased delivery off eBay at the minimum letter rate of 65 pence, I’d get happy shiny metrics.
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In this case there was a happy ending. I went back to the post office today and asked what would happen to the package. To my surprise, they went in the back and found it. All I had to do was tell the postman who the package was going to, and he handed it back to me.
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