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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: electrobossman on July 10, 2013, 04:09 am

Title: Undeliverable as addressed WTF!!
Post by: electrobossman on July 10, 2013, 04:09 am
I know I made a topic about this a couple of days ago but would like a broader amount of feedback from both buyers and vendors dealing with this problem. I understand most that receive this have used a fake address. I'm going to go ahead and assume that my vendor knows what he's doing and wouldn't fuck up my address due to the waste of time it is for him plus the fact that he's a perfect 100. Now I've got the tracking and have watched it being scanned, and if it were a bad address why would it have shown up in my town. I just saw an update saying this after the undeliverable as addressed update....

Your item was processed through and left our facility on July 9, 2013 at 10:41 pm. The item is currently in transit to the destination. Information, if available, is updated periodically throughout the day. Please check again later.

My main question is has anyone ever received their package after receiving a undeliverable as addressed to a correct address? The more I think about this the more pissed of I get because I know USPS fucked up obviously because they can't provide any sort of assistance. Though it's being scanned just fine, I'm just trying to figure out if it's just going to make a big loop or what the hell is going on. Never had a problem like this when getting packages. I had a package airmailed from the UK with my first name only and made it here fine so I know USPS screwed up. Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
Title: Re: Undeliverable as addressed WTF!!
Post by: Lorimer on July 10, 2013, 05:40 am
If you don't do anything it'll be returned, which would suck.  If the vendor used a real return address the owner of the address might (depending on what you ordered) call the police when your parcel ends up in their mailbox. If he used a fake one, it'll get opened up at the dead letter office. Either way someone else will be opening it, which is kinda the last thing you want.  (Also if it's the vendor's word against yours it'll be too easy for him to claim you were the one who gave an address that didn't check out & refuse a refund/reship based on that).

So you just need to make sure it's not returned. Act like someone tracking a normal package would -  call (burner phone plz) the post office & find out why it's undeliverable. (Contact the vendor too).  Some places won't deliver if the name doesn't match up, or maybe the vendor accidentally put the wrong street address on it or something. If you have the tracking number & your name checks out in most cases they'll just let you come pick it up. Otherwise they'll tell you to have the shipper contact them to update the address & they'll reroute it back. Every time I've had something get turned around this way it's usually not taken more than a call or two to sort things out.

I know it sounds crazy, but this way is much better than doing nothing & guaranteeing that someone else open it, esp if your actual name/address is on the package. It also saves you the headache of fighting things out with the vendor and (if you're lucky) waiting another week for a reship.

Also for future reference this page has a list of all the reasons something might not get delivered:

http://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/507.htm