Ever Have Lost Items/Mail You Sent Returned To You?
I'm not asking if you have had mail returned to you, I'm asking specifically if you have had mail that got lost returned to you. In January I sent a game I sold to a buyer in Russia via the address on the label from paypayl.com. In February he opened a case against me stating he never received the item. Ever since a guy in Canada told me he never received a game package I sent him a few years ago(which I proved to be a lie a full year afterwards when I saw him selling the exact same games he claimed he never received due to them being lost in the mail) I have been very skeptical about people making those claims. And thats one of the reasons why it's now mandatory for anyone buying items from me to have tracking numbers, rather it's sent within the same state or another country. Anyway, when checking the tracking number in February the last update it stated was that it was in the states main receiving facility, which I assumed meant it was going to be sent via airmail to Russia from there or perhaps crossing over to another state first before leaving the country. But he said he never received it and I had no way to prove it arrived because the last update wasn't all encompassing. So in that sense the mail was officially lost.
So today that package was returned to me....approximately 4 months and 6 days later. According to the note left by the Russian post office the address was insufficient, meaning the guy listed the wrong address on paypal. While that makes sense for why it got returned I want to know why it took so long to return to me. I sent it via priority mail international and that wouldn't even take one month to arrive in Russia so I would figure if they held it for a while(probably 30 days max) then it should have been back within two months but no more than three.
I do understand that every countries postal standards and rules are different but I wish that the tracking number would have atleast kept me in the loop of what was going on. Actually, when I called the post office and reported this they told me that getting global express mail was a good way to get around this. So has anyone else ever had a similiar situation where something you sent to someone was lost but somehow was returned to you?
Originally Posted by THE 1 2 P
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