USPS money order advice

[antelopedundee]

Certified mail is trackable and $4. First class mail is trackable and under $3 if you put it in an envelope and make it at least 3/4 of an inch thick using bubble pack. Get your label at usps click n ship or www.paypal.com/shipnow and get tracking FOR FREE!

 

[mike a]

Nuts, post# 62

 

[antelopedundee]

Nuts, post# 62

I'm guessing that you don't have a lot of experience mailing stuff. Just the other day I sent something certified so I know what it costs and that it was delivered. IIRC I believe it also has to be signed for. So I got the same service for about half the price. I expect that tracked mail is not mixed in with untracked mail so the likelihood of loss is smaller. Why would you pay $7+ for priority mail when with a little shrewd thinking you can get the same service for less than $3?

Postal regulations require that a package be at least 3/4 of an inch before you can use tracking. Ever try buying tracking for a letter? This thickness also means that they won't be run through a sorting machine.

I was told that if you put a PayPal printed label on a letter that they'd probably just let it go.

 

[carlsbad]

OK. for years I had a business an ebay shipping 5000+ small packages a year, mostly 1st class. I never insured anything under $5000. I printed every label out with a zebra bar code and taped every package up securely. I never had a package lost or damaged domestically. The barcode is the key. As stated above you can print out your labels on paypal.

--Jerry

 

[69mach]

Update. I finally received my lost usps mo reimbursement check in the mail today. Thanks for everyone’s suggestions. I only mail with a tracking number.

 

[fantastic]

If you mailed it regular mail then its possible that the mail would not be found, next time send via priority mail with a tracking number. no matter what happens. they will be able to find the mail and deliver it to you.

 

[antelopedundee]

If you mailed it regular mail then its possible that the mail would not be found, next time send via priority mail with a tracking number. no matter what happens. they will be able to find the mail and deliver it to you.

Or certified mail which has to be signed for.

 

[243Lapua]

I just quit sending the merchandise I sell here via USPS. To many problems and no solutions.

 

[JRanum]

The USPS 'tracking' in real time is a joke. Manys the time Ive had it show the initial mailed from address and then never an update til it reaches its destination. And several times a package that shows a delivery date doesnt arrive and the following day it still hasnt updated. And when it does it gives me a 'no delivery date scheduled' message. I wouldnt trust their tracking with anything.

 

[antelopedundee]

The USPS 'tracking' in real time is a joke. Manys the time Ive had it show the initial mailed from address and then never an update til it reaches its destination. And several times a package that shows a delivery date doesnt arrive and the following day it still hasnt updated. And when it does it gives me a 'no delivery date scheduled' message. I wouldnt trust their tracking with anything.

Pretty sure that express mail and certified mail are the only services where real time tracking is assured.

 

[JRanum]

I guess I assumed that if a package had a tracking number it had the same quaility of tracking regardless. Ive never heard a teller make a distinction between levels of service in regards to tracking.

 

[Centuriator]

As a seller I stopped accepting USPS Money Orders. My bank, Bank of America, automatically puts a 12 business day holds on them due to counterfeit issues. Plus I can not deposit them via my smartphone app but have to go to the bank to deposit. All the way around pain in the butt. Always frustrates buyers who assume money orders are "as good as cash" and I should mail as soon as I get a money order. In spite of warning buyers in the past about this, they don't pay attention, not worth the hassle. Now it's only cashiers' checks and personal checks and I do not ship until they clear through into my bank account. No PP for me due to their anti-firearm policies.

Always mail payment with some kind of tracking number.

 

[antelopedundee]

I guess I assumed that if a package had a tracking number it had the same quaility of tracking regardless. Ive never heard a teller make a distinction between levels of service in regards to tracking.

Possible nobody ever asked them.

 

[Danoh]

I sent a large check to a member here via USPS Priority envelope with tracking. They still lost it.
In fact, I just received an email yesterday from USPS that they had canceled the search after six months.
He did receive it after about three months. After I had sent another via regular snail mail of course.
USPS only refunded me about half of what it cost me to stop payment on original check plus the postal fee.

 

[antelopedundee]

As a seller I stopped accepting USPS Money Orders. My bank, Bank of America, automatically puts a 12 business day holds on them due to counterfeit issues. Plus I can not deposit them via my smartphone app but have to go to the bank to deposit. All the way around pain in the butt. Always frustrates buyers who assume money orders are "as good as cash" and I should mail as soon as I get a money order. In spite of warning buyers in the past about this, they don't pay attention, not worth the hassle. Now it's only cashiers' checks and personal checks and I do not ship until they clear through into my bank account. No PP for me due to their anti-firearm policies.

Always mail payment with some kind of tracking number.

Your PO can verify if they are on the list of stolen money orders or there is a way that you can do it yourself. If not stolen they are good for as long as there is a postal service. I know one person who instead of keeping his money as cash instead bought USPS money orders and kept them blank for that very reason. I received a MO Saturday from a member here and deposited it yesterday and my bank cleared the deposit into my account by midnight. As I said before checks can bounce months after they supposedly "cleared".

 

[antelopedundee]

I sent a large check to a member here via USPS Priority envelope with tracking. They still lost it.
In fact, I just received an email yesterday from USPS that they had canceled the search after six months.
He did receive it after about three months. After I had sent another via regular snail mail of course.
USPS only refunded me about half of what it cost me to stop payment on original check plus the postal fee.

I sent a check to someone that he got over a year later with a note that it was found in a supposedly empty bin.

 

[Danoh]

I sent a check to someone that he got over a year later with a note that it was found in a supposedly empty bin.

Kinda figure that’s what happened to mine. It was the large, flat priority envelope.

 

[Centuriator]

There are some PP users who don't know or understand what PPFF is.

Just wait until some idiot either fails to use FF and flags the payment as "gun part" or some other jerk reports you to PP for selling firearm parts...and...boom. Account banned and locked and you wait six months to get any money you had in the account with PP.

It happens. I know.

 

[fantastic]

Or certified mail which has to be signed for.

Yeah, Basically send a mail or check without a tracking number is like sending a sheep to the woods and hoping it finds its way back home.

 

[fantastic]

I had a mail that should have delivered since friday but did on Monday. i was a little concerned that it was taking too long. i Emailed USPS and they responded really quick and delivered the mail on Monday. the customer service is great.