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HELP!...It's a first for me

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I knew there would have to be a first time. I mailed a $810.00 coin via U.S.P.S. Insured to someone in Georgia on the 11th of this month. It's now the 20th and no package has arrived at the buyer's home. I'm sick about it & she/he's sick about it. I can only conclude at this juncture that 3 things have potentially transpired, it's stolen, lost or simply delayed. She/He has become extremely impatient, as I too, would be. Can someone HELP this newbie? 893scratchchin-thumb.gif

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9 days which covers includes a holiday weeend. Wait and I'm sure it will show up. It took a week for a package to get to me from a forum member who is maybe 200 miles from me.

 

Give the buyer the insurance tracking number and let him talk to the post office. They can maybe track it down. However, I'm sure they'll tell him to wait.

 

Btw, I believe the "break point" is $700 when it is cheaper to send the item registered with insurance rather than standard mail with insurance.

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Get a insurance claim form from your local post office. However, I think you need to wait 30 days after mailing to file it.

 

After those 30 days, fill it out and mail it to the buyer to fill out his part. He can either mail it back to you and you turn it in, or he can turn it in to his local post office. After a month or six they will issue a check if the package is truely lost.

 

 

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The mail seems to be running very slow in spots lately. I had a coin shipped to me in Ohio from Louisiana that took nearly 2 weeks.

 

I wouldn't give up hope just yet.

 

 

I also had a coin that I shipped to Indiana and after a week the buyer contacted me. I emailed him a pic of my insurance receipt and told him he might call his PO and check. He emailed later and said they had the thing there and were sending it back to me! They never left him a darn card that they had even attempted to deliver it!

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Get a insurance claim form from your local post office. However, I think you need to wait 30 days after mailing to file it.

 

After those 30 days, fill it out and mail it to the buyer to fill out his part. He can either mail it back to you and you turn it in, or he can turn it in to his local post office. After a month or six they will issue a check if the package is truely lost.

 

 

Having filed a few of these, the PO will mail a copy of the form to the buyer. Then the buyer mails it back to the PO. Unless it's different in other states, I've never had to mail the ins. form to the buyer. And 30 days is correct, you'll need to wait that time before fileing but I have been able to pick up the form before then.

 

Leo

 

And welcome to the boards Twosenseworth!

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Thank you all...I just received an email from the buyer's wife. I knew the kind & patient individual throughout the prior emails, wasn't the person that blasted me with a slam dunk threatening to contact ebay email this evening which was her hubby (The buyer). All I could express was... PATIENCE. He wants to hear that like he wants a hole in the head, ya know what I'm sayin'. He's pissed! I don't blame him. However, she expressed they had a arguement about his lengthy hours on the computer and he was memely taking it out on me. If it keeps him content until his package hopefully arrives, what the hey, I'll be his dartboard... tongue.gif

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UPDATE:

Just received another email from the buyer. Seems that they're getting a chuckle from our correspondences, which is a good thing, or, I'm controlling what could be a potentially volitile financial situation with charm. On the otherhand, they could've had too many shots and beers on this Friday eve. Anyway, they're happy as of now and that's what counts...:-) Thanks again, all!... laugh.gif

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Perhaps the wife stepped in and relieved the guy! Thank God for women!

 

hmmmm....

 

Lucy

It's not what you think! The guy was just spending too much time on the computer and the wife started to take emails and......and.....well, you know....she took matters into her own hands......so to speak.....well, that what it seemed like! 27_laughing.gif

 

Leo

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