USPS stole my mail. Now what?

khalid · Sep 27, 2013

Best thing I got for free from shipping was a computer case from Tigerdirect. I cancelled it and it ended up getting shipped anyway. I called them about it and they said just to keep it and not worry about it. The one and only time something that was shipped to me vanished (a HDD, wonder what its RPMs were...) Tigerdirect replaced it without a single question.

As for my personal mail, the mail to my apartment gets delivered often in a 3 or 4 house radius. Neighbors are always getting my mail and I am always getting theirs. We have all complained all kinds of times to the post office and nothing has been done. We even all posted names on our boxes because we thought that maybe the guy just couldn't read the numbers or something. Very frustrating.

Friday · Sep 27, 2013

Poseidon thanks you for your sacrifice.

khalid · Sep 27, 2013

Noodleface_sl said:
Edit: Worst part. My brother and his friends found my stash (IN THE WOODS) and were afraid my parents would find it so they threw it in the lake.

Do me a favor man. Find your brother right now and punch him in the face. What an asshole.

Burnesto · Sep 27, 2013

I dunno. They taught him to hide stuff better.

Hoss · Sep 27, 2013

I just wish I'd been this guy. Not sure I would have told anyone. Probably would have taped the box up and put it in the back of the closet for a while to see if anyone came looking for it, and if they did claim I'd forgotten about it and hadn't even opened it up. Then eventually, I'd have found a way to see if the gun had been reported stolen.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...assault-rifle/

Worst part is, it sounds like the guy got fucked out of his TV.

opiate82 · Sep 27, 2013

Noodleface_sl said:
When I was young (13) I went on Ebay to buy some Playboys. This was before free internet porn, and I liked the high-class look of the ladies in Playboy. I found some dude selling all the Carmen Electra issues (my favorite at the time), so I sent him a message asking if he would sell them to a 13 year old. I can't remember the exact circumstances, but he offered to sell them outside of the auction. He mailed them before I paid him. Received them without paying and went along with my business. It was probably like $15 or something, but I felt like shit.

I wish I could track him down and pay him back.

If Ebay was around, then so was free internet porn.

bixxby · Sep 27, 2013

Hoss_sl said:
I just wish I'd been this guy. Not sure I would have told anyone. Probably would have taped the box up and put it in the back of the closet for a while to see if anyone came looking for it, and if they did claim I'd forgotten about it and hadn't even opened it up. Then eventually, I'd have found a way to see if the gun had been reported stolen.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...assault-rifle/

Worst part is, it sounds like the guy got fucked out of his TV.

What kinda weiner calls the police because someone sent them some cool ass shit.

joz123 · Sep 27, 2013

Well I sent the phone company a bad review through amazon and they email me back saying they want my RMA # to see if they can "find" the return and they also give me some BS about how they are just a mom and pop shop and they want me to take down the bad review. I gave them the RMA and told them I would take it down when I get my money back. Haven't heard back from them.

Delly · Sep 28, 2013

joz123_sl said:
Well I sent the phone company a bad review through amazon and they email me back saying they want my RMA # to see if they can "find" the return and they also give me some BS about how they are just a mom and pop shop and they want me to take down the bad review. I gave them the RMA and told them I would take it down when I get my money back. Haven't heard back from them.

The power of the bad review. If you do get your money back just keep the review up for your trouble.

Chukzombi · Sep 28, 2013

if they dont get back to you, give the link and ill chuck a bad review on there for you too

Tuco · Sep 28, 2013

Noodleface_sl said:
When I was young (13) I went on Ebay to buy some Playboys. This was before free internet porn, and I liked the high-class look of the ladies in Playboy. I found some dude selling all the Carmen Electra issues (my favorite at the time), so I sent him a message asking if he would sell them to a 13 year old. I can't remember the exact circumstances, but he offered to sell them outside of the auction. He mailed them before I paid him. Received them without paying and went along with my business. It was probably like $15 or something, but I felt like shit.

I wish I could track him down and pay him back.

Back at that age an adult giving a 13 year old is pretty much the coolest thing ever. Now that I'm an adult it's kind of creepy.

Big Phoenix · Sep 28, 2013

Kids these days literally dont know what it was like to grow up back in our day. If youre under 25 you grew up in a completely different world from those older than you. I mean kids these days will never know the joy and awesomeness of a discarded porn stash. Its all tubes, cam whores and sexts nowadays.

Interesting story; I stole a lot of porn from my dad. Back in the day(late 90s, early 2000s) before the internet was the internet he had one of those huge 10 feet diameter satellite dishes and subscribed to porn to sell it to his coworkers. He would have dozens and dozens of vhs tapes stacked up that he would use to record the porn. Was like taking candy from a baby.

OneofOne · Sep 28, 2013

Too true. Home next to my best friend was sold (to be torn down) so we went over after they moved out - found a huge collection of porn mags in the garage. Felt like Xmas in July! Now it's every damn where.

hodj · Sep 28, 2013

I miss the finely combed and tended bushes of the 80s and early 90s magazine porn generation.

Hachima · Sep 29, 2013

McCheese_sl said:
The chances that it was stolen by the USPS are very, very slim. My dad has worked in a major USPS sorting facility for 30+ years, and he has all sorts of stories about lost mail. He occasionally finds mail, including small packages, that are YEARS old which fell into crevices, cracks, etc., and were chalked up as lost and forgotten.

I think that's the most likely scenario, i.e., bad luck. Given the sheer number of mail that moves through the postal system it's really impressive how little is actually lost.

By the way, don't think that using UPS or FedEx or DHS would be any better. I used to work in a large UPS sorting facility and the shit I saw people doing with packages (like knowingly throwing a package addressed for Virginia into a truck heading towards California) was awful.

My sister helped with a sting operation on a USPS worker that was stealing gift cards. She received a letter that was suppose to have a gift card but the gift card was missing on arrival. When she reported it, the post office had a specific worker that was a suspect and to nab him they sent her a gift card themselves to get evidence on the guy. The card was missing again and they ended up catching him.

Noodleface · Sep 30, 2013

Tuco_sl said:
Back at that age an adult giving a 13 year old is pretty much the coolest thing ever. Now that I'm an adult it's kind of creepy.

It was different back then too though, that was a bit before the major pussification in America. If my parents had found out, they probably would've thrown them away (or my dad kept them) and grounded me. Maybe they'd contact the guy to yell at him about it, but most likely not as they didn't know how to use the computer.. maybe they'd make me email him and pay him.

Nowadays if a dude did that shit, he'd probably get arrested and slapped with something like distributing porn to a minor and be put on a sex offender list. His life would be ruined over a couple of playboys.

Jysin · Sep 30, 2013

OneofOne_sl said:
Too true. Home next to my best friend was sold (to be torn down) so we went over after they moved out - found a huge collection of porn mags in the garage. Felt like Xmas in July! Now it's every damn where.

The funniest stashes I had ever stumbled across was in a government Navy building 13 years ago or so. I was an enlisted scrub at the time and was tasked with a few others to re-paint the bathroom. Now, this building had been around for decades and the paint wasnt in too terrible shape. However, I guess we were the first ones to do it properly from floor to actual ceiling. As we were removing the false square ceiling tiles a handful of mags covered in dust fell down. We found someone's secret stash of porno mags from the 80's! A lot of laughs were had around the shop that day looking at full bush. Fun times!

BrutulTM · Oct 1, 2013

I wonder what people did for wank material back in the old days before even Playboy existed.

I had two sources for porn as an adolescent. First I had a cousin who was like a truffle hunting pig when it came to porn. He found someone's huge stash of magazines in an old car down by the river. Then he found out when the local gas station threw out their old magazines and he would go dumpster diving once a month and get more magazines. One time he even found a nasty swinger magazine full of x-rated personal ads under an overpass on the interstate. I was sometimes blessed with his old magazines, which were a huge upgrade to the National Geographics and encyclopedia anatomy pictures I had been beating off to.

Then when I was in high school my grandparents got the old school huge satellite dishes and got an illegal descrambler that made it so you got every channel for free. They went to Arizona for the winter and their house was a quarter mile from ours so I would sneak out in the middle of the night and walk to their house in the snow, move the dish to the satellite that got the Playboy channel and the Spice channel, stick a tape in the VCR and just let it record for 6 hours and then sneak back the next morning and retrieve it and move the dish back to where it had been when they left. Sometimes there was no sound on it because the descrambler hadn't been updated but that didn't matter at all.

The young boys these days will never understand the quest for boobies that we had to go through in the pre-internet age.

iannis · Oct 1, 2013

hodj_sl said:
I miss the finely combed and tended bushes of the 80s and early 90s magazine porn generation.

So much this. But i'm noticing a welcome resurgence of snatch-hair.

I do not understand the appeal (besides hygiene) of a shaved cooch. There needs to be some mystery involved.

Jysin · Oct 2, 2013

BrutulTM_sl said:
...Then when I was in high school my grandparents got the old school huge satellite dishes and got an illegal descrambler that made it so you got every channel for free. They went to Arizona for the winter and their house was a quarter mile from ours so I would sneak out in the middle of the night and walk to their house in the snow, move the dish to the satellite that got the Playboy channel and the Spice channel, stick a tape in the VCR and just let it record for 6 hours and then sneak back the next morning and retrieve it and move the dish back to where it had been when they left. Sometimes there was no sound on it because the descrambler hadn't been updated but that didn't matter at all.

The young boys these days will never understand the quest for boobies that we had to go through in the pre-internet age.

You know you are fucking old when you have to tell a legitimate story that involves "back in my day / walking uphill in the snow..."

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