Does anyone else feel like they waste there money on DC #'s? I now use click & Ship so i don't pay for them anymore, but it always seems the tracking info on www.usps.com is useless.
or is it just me?
or is it just me?
DC #'s.....Why?
- Thread starter rck70
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I don't use them unless it's a MAW where it's expected. If they are cheapie smokes, I'm willing to risk having to send them out again. If they are pricey smokes, I'm getting insurance or using UPS. I do find DC to be fairly useless but it would be helpful in a dispute I guess.
Unless you TELL them to scan it at the post office so they have a record of them having it I think it's worthless.
I know a guy who used click and ship here at the office. The mailman picks up the box and now it's lost. The post office is going to refund his money ONLY because he happened to remember that it was a different carrier on duty that day (that's how they know he's telling the truth). The post office said that the DC# does not help unless you ASK them to scan it in at the time of pickup. It's the only way to cover your @ss that they have the box.
Al
I know a guy who used click and ship here at the office. The mailman picks up the box and now it's lost. The post office is going to refund his money ONLY because he happened to remember that it was a different carrier on duty that day (that's how they know he's telling the truth). The post office said that the DC# does not help unless you ASK them to scan it in at the time of pickup. It's the only way to cover your @ss that they have the box.
Al
I know that....i just think it is useless. When the post office offers tracking of this number on the site, and in some cases you will recieve the package, then get confirmation it was sent.
Just another example of the "man" getting theirs.
:tpd: I can see that angle.....:tu
justinphilly
All You Can Eat
Just a note. I think insurance from either UPS or USPS would be useless since I dont think either allow you to ship cigars.. Not sure how you would file a claim against a company b/c of damage done while shipping something you weren't supposed to be able to ship in the first place.
DennisP said:
You seem to get stuck on things. Yes, you can look at the site and see where your package has been, but it isn't real time such as UPS's tracking. Two different products.:tu
justinphilly
All You Can Eat
LOL, can you really file a claim though? or are you just speaking of DC #, and not my post where i said insurance was useless?
LasciviousXXX
Lucifer
USPS does allow you to ship cigars and I def think Insurance is worth it with USPS :ss
I speak of DC's
Theres a reason I get a DC when shipping something. Its proof that I shipped it. If for whatever reason I am questioned as to whether I shipped it or not on the day I claimed to, I have proof I did. Its to protect me & my word more than anything else, which is why I get it.
There's an old tale of something that happened on another popular cigar board that involved a strictly cuban cigar pass. This sleazeball claimed he shipped that package but it was never recieved (the person it was to be shipped to had a very long & good reputation on that board & still does to my knowledge). When wingnut supposedly shipped it, he never got any proof as to whether he actually did or not. He claimed it must be lost and its not his fault because he swears he shipped it.
The icing on the cake was when he showed up to a herf one day weeks after this incident and in his traveldor was not his usual AVO's, Fuentes, and other NC's, but rather it was filled with Esplendidos, Bolivar Beli's, RyJ Chuchill Tubos, etc.
He was 3" shy of getting his arse whooped by 17 others that were there. Instead, he was just given a verbal beating. Needless to say, after that he and the 83 Havanas from the pass were never seen again.
now that's some kind of dumbass, :r
Does anyone else feel like they waste there money on DC #'s? I now use click & Ship so i don't pay for them anymore, but it always seems the tracking info on www.usps.com is useless.
or is it just me?
It's just you.
:tpd: Obviously with the stupid being replaced with "god like wisdom one".
Add a bit from my perspective....
Transactions here are primarily based upon trust.
Trust is created by our rules and community standards.
DC's are a form of communication and setting a standard of care as much as anything.
The post office is remarkably reliable.
Certain bad folks use "lore" about the PO to defraud.
DC's prove shipment and delivery which is consummation of transactions.
Absent DC's....
I shipped it .. the post office must have lost it.
I never got it... the post office must have lost it.
And an open door for "bad people" to defraud here would be created. And more realisiticly, without them, uncertainty and loss if trust might be created through timing and other issues.
My view is that DC's provide a cost effective means of providing a "standard of care" which is easily accessible to all and by their use very few transactions go awry due to "lost in the mail" issues. I have personally shipped approximately 1000 packages here to other members. To my knowledge, every singe one has gotten to the intended recipient.
What DC's are not ... are real time tracking as compared to some of the private services... yet. The upgrade to the USPS system to include this has been delayed several times.