bummed: postal mail

[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.

[Pedal Wench]

I attempted to return a purchase to the UK by US then international mail. For some reason, they never picked it up at the post office since I sent it by registered mail, so it was returned by mail. I shipped on 11/16/11, it started its return journey on 12/3/11. I just got the returned item on 2/16/12, exactly 3 months after I shipped it.