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Blue-Jay
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I would like to get an opinion from many of you about a package that I sent out to a fellow in California. He told me he wanted to join the Little Easy Bean Network. He chose 25 varieties of network beans. Among them were the last seeds I had of three of the varieties. He also purchased 50 packets from the pages A-Z. I talked to the fellow on the phone Friday and he told me he was basically a grower of cactis and supplied all sorts of places all over the country that sells. that sort of stuff. So he lives in a rural neighborhood with everyone having very large parcels is my understanding of his living situation. He was planning on planting these beans in August having a year round growing season with no frost.
I had mailed the package of 75 varieties on a Tuesday and the post office told me they would be at his address on Thursday. The package cost was nearly $19.00 to mail so it was going the fastest way outside of paying a small fortune to have it delivered overnight. I had emailed him immediately and alerted him of the delivery date. On Saturday afternoon he emailed me stating the bean package was not at his address. I could not get any info on the package on the postal service website by typing in the tracking number. Saturday afternoon the local post office was closed. So on Monday morning I went to our post office and told them that my recipient claims the package has not arrived. He took my receipt and when into the postmasters office and said they looked it up on their system. The counter fellow told me that the package was delivered as I was originally told on Thursday at or near his mailbox.
So I emailed this fellow again and asked him if he had questioned his local post office to find out who was his delivery person that week and where the postal person had deliverd the package. I have not heard a word back from this fellow.
I am wondering if there was someone who follows the postal trucks in his town in the background and steals packages after they are deliverd.
So in that package there are three varieties of network beans that I have to take off the pages as we don't have them anymore. Do I owe this fellow at my cost another package? Am I responsible for packages that the post office handles. The post office won't give me the $50 minimum in insurance on the package as they claim it was delivered.
I had mailed the package of 75 varieties on a Tuesday and the post office told me they would be at his address on Thursday. The package cost was nearly $19.00 to mail so it was going the fastest way outside of paying a small fortune to have it delivered overnight. I had emailed him immediately and alerted him of the delivery date. On Saturday afternoon he emailed me stating the bean package was not at his address. I could not get any info on the package on the postal service website by typing in the tracking number. Saturday afternoon the local post office was closed. So on Monday morning I went to our post office and told them that my recipient claims the package has not arrived. He took my receipt and when into the postmasters office and said they looked it up on their system. The counter fellow told me that the package was delivered as I was originally told on Thursday at or near his mailbox.
So I emailed this fellow again and asked him if he had questioned his local post office to find out who was his delivery person that week and where the postal person had deliverd the package. I have not heard a word back from this fellow.
I am wondering if there was someone who follows the postal trucks in his town in the background and steals packages after they are deliverd.
So in that package there are three varieties of network beans that I have to take off the pages as we don't have them anymore. Do I owe this fellow at my cost another package? Am I responsible for packages that the post office handles. The post office won't give me the $50 minimum in insurance on the package as they claim it was delivered.