bummed: postal mail

[limewave]

My parents sent cards to all the grandkids for Valentine's Day. They put $2 in each card. Only half the cards were delivered with the cash still inside

[NbyNW]

Don't get me started about Canada Post ....

[Irulan]

Don't get me started about Canada Post ....

hahaha
I was just going to say the same about USPS.

[Owlie]

Funny. My grandmother used to send us cash for birthdays/Christmas ($20+), and it never got stolen. (She's since switched to sending my parents a check and telling them to distribute it.)

[Kiwi Stoker]

Most of the time I can feel plastic cards in letters. I wish that banks, people etc would find someway to put in card or something so you cannot feel a credit card sized piece of plastic.

Really it's like putting a $20 note on the table in front of someone and leaving the room.

[ny biker]

I don't know anything about Canada's mail service, but for US mail you should report theft (including mail delivered with contents missing) to the Postal Inspectors.

https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/c...complaint.aspx

The USPS is a huge organization employing a huge number of people. Unfortunately not all of them are honest. If incidences of theft are reported to the Postal Inspectors, they can look for patterns that can help them track down the criminals.

[Koronin]

Hence the reason I've kept a bank account in Ohio. That way my parents can just deposit money in that account and I can get to it without money/checks/gift cards ever going through the mail.

[NbyNW]

hahaha
I was just going to say the same about USPS.

Having experienced both ....

• CP lost/damaged more of my mail in 2 years than USPS has my entire life.
• CP charges extra to pick up mail from residential addresses. In the middle of the city, at addresses they are making deliveries to, anyway.
• For a fee, CP will forward mail to the U.S. USPS does not have a comparable service to forward mail to Canada.
• Actually, CP charges for mail forwarding anywhere in Canada. I have never had to pay in the US to have my mail forwarded to another US address.
• CP charges you for Hold Mail service; USPS does not.

Even with the budget cuts and layoffs that I've seen happen at USPS over the decades, for what they charge the service is good value. Yes, I've had my share of deliveries gone wrong, and while inconvenient and unfortunate, not the end of the world.

[badger]

the worst for me was when FedEx "lost" one of my packages (lost, my eye, how does a box get lost? it got stolen is what happened). It had a tracking number and got stuck at Mississauga and never advanced from there. And when it came time to filing a claim, they only paid $100 Canadian (maximum allowable), even though it was paid in US funds and cost more than $150.

I recently sent a Starbucks gift card to my friend via Canada Post, and fearing that employees can feel a card and be tempted, I put in a very stiff cardboard so you couldn't feel anything inside. She got the card.