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Hello,

sometimes, even tracking can't help. I was sending a letter to someone and while being sorted in the sorting centre, it was ‘lost’. According to the tracking app, it was still at that place. We asked them to search for it, but to no avail. Better yet, when asking for insurance, it turned out that according to their terms of use, you were only allowed to send paper in the mail, nothing else! Now, where can you read the terms? At the postal office? Nope, noone has them there! You need to check the website. And noone asks you if you read them, they only do that online. 

(I never got that lettet back, and it happened twice in total)

Kind regards

Have a nice weekend colleagues.

Theft of postal employees is as old as the beginning of the post office, a regularly recurring phenomenon in all states.   It's a great opportunity, it just depends on the rules, the state, and people's awareness somewhere more and more often.  Less so in developed society, but it happens everywhere.

For me, when sending our numismatics, it is important to properly wrap it so that it is impossible to tell by hand that it is a coin or shine through under a lamp.

When sending abroad, even tracking mail is the biggest danger between the sender's and recipient's airport.  there is an uncontrollable zone - which cannot be traced legally, and the employees at airports carrying and handling mail are usually hired in a very specific way and not paid enough.

The last level - the delivery person himself - can fail professionally and start checking shipments, letters, often in poorer countries.   Just do the test - put 4 aluminum coins and one 1 dollar bill in an envelope and send the envelope to state.......xyz.   ........not even 10% will run out unopened - that's my opinion.

Lists the states.  XYZ??

Ivan

MIMAEL

Have a nice weekend colleagues.

Theft of postal employees is as old as the beginning of the post office, a regularly recurring phenomenon in all states.   It's a great opportunity, it just depends on the rules, the state, and people's awareness somewhere more and more often.  Less so in developed society, but it happens everywhere.

 

For me, when sending our numismatics, it is important to properly wrap it so that it is impossible to tell by hand that it is a coin or shine through under a lamp.

When sending abroad, even tracking mail is the biggest danger between the sender's and recipient's airport.  there is an uncontrollable zone - which cannot be traced legally, and the employees at airports carrying and handling mail are usually hired in a very specific way and not paid enough.

The last level - the delivery person himself - can fail professionally and start checking shipments, letters, often in poorer countries.   Just do the test - put 4 aluminum coins and one 1 dollar bill in an envelope and send the envelope to state.......xyz.   ........not even 10% will run out unopened - that's my opinion.

 

Lists the states.  XYZ??

 

Ivan

Oh, I once bought a rare banknote and when I got the parcel it was half-opened! Luckily, the banknote was secured in a way thanks to which you couldn't see what it was at first. (The foil/holder was not made of clear plastic).

I don't know if I can say I've ever had any mail stolen, but I've run into various other problems.

Postal service screw ups:

- My mail being placed in my neighbor's box and vice versa. He got my package and I got his tax refund check. Similarly, I've had the key to the parcel locker left in my box for one of my other neighbor's larger packages.

A lot more common are problems caused by senders screwing things up:

- Packages mailed with partial address (name cut off and street address missing 2/5 digits), resulting in the package arriving 2 weeks later than normal. I was amazed it actually found me.

- Packages arriving with postage due, and it wasn't even international

- Packages being shipped with signature required for very cheap coins by a seller I've previously bought from

Then there was that one time I ordered a 40 lb dumbbell, which they left at my front door and some porch pirate got spooked away by my neighbors as he was checking it out. I had a good laugh imagining them try to run away with it.

MIMAEL

Theft of by postal employees …

Huge difference. 😁

Sad story (in a way) for us collectors.  We not only have to contend with high platform (seller) fees, the various seller scams (high contrast scans which fail to show a note/coins issues, mislabelled items, etc), we have have our nation's customs nipping for their "pound of flesh" & the high cost of shipping (all for collectible money).

This is why so many couriers & alternative delivery services have become so successful.  They ride on the populations mistrust of the nation's postal system.  This & more recently the emergence of many e-couriers, for e-commerce based businesses, have popped up & have become successful in recent years.

Under different pretexts, shipping fees in the “west” skyrocketed in the past few years. On the other hand, anything you order from China comes either with free shipping or some token fee. Add to this their prices and population numbers and the end result for the “west” will become all too clear. 

Dejan

Under different pretexts, shipping fees in the “west” skyrocketed in the past few years. On the other hand, anything you order from China comes either with free shipping or some token fee. Add to this their prices and population numbers and the end result for the “west” will become all too clear. 

There is an upcoming election to the EU parliament on 9 June 2024. What you're addressing is a topic in this election and it's expected that the new EU parliament will amend the laws on import customs and taxes for private individuals.

The threshold for when customs and VAT on all private import that origins from outside the EU should be collected will most likely be lowered to €0.

Most EU countries has outsourced the calculation and collection of import taxes to the postal service, which means there are added a fee to the declaration of import taxes to shipments of approximately €5 or more per shipment.

Furthermore, it's also suggested that EU authorities should be more vigorously controlling whether products originating from outside the EU imported by private individuals also meet the EU products safety standards.

Glad this has not reached NZ yet. The worst we have is people stealing mail and mostly them being NZ Post employees stealing bills and the like. Usually they explain they have some mental issue (Mental health, particularly Autism and ADHD seem to be a catch all excuse for any bad behaviour now).

I was lucky enough to have some sender send me 2kg of bulk silver coins to me last week and hoped they would arrive by Thursday as I would not be able to answer the door Friday. Of course they had to send it by the budget courier that took 4 days instead of 1 o 2 and it arrived Friday at 12.11pm. It amazingly sat outside my house until 8pm Saturday. No one stole it, but I rattled the seller telling them that when your customers spend thousands and they charge shipping at the end, not to use the budget service.

Had this been America, some ghetto part of Auckland, that package sitting outside in the daylight would have gotten stolen after 1 hour let alone 30. But I am lucky to live in a nice part of Christchurch New Zealand, a city with very little crime and a 90% civilised population.