u/AndrewZabar

Hey folks,

Just a TL;DR here, what recourse do I have if the post office did not scan my package which I left in the PO "airlock," trusting them to do their job?

I hope someone can advise. For the second time in recent months, USPS did not bother to scan one of my outgoing packages and it's in limbo. It should have already been delivered. It just so happens in this case I went to the PO and there was one agent only, and ten people on line. After nearly 10 minutes waiting, the agent was still helping the same person. She was working as slowly as a sloth. Myself and another individual motioned to her with our packages already paid and labeled... she indicated to the last booth, and we left our packages in the "airlock" and closed it. My tracking updated the following day, but only one of my two packages. The other one was never scanned in. I guess the agent there got herself a free used smartphone.

Months ago, I left a package in my mailbox (apartment co-op) for outgoing. We have a main carrier who is excellent, but some days there's a secondary, and she's awful. The main guy will always come to my apt. to pickup packages if necessary, but the alternate "doesn't do that," as she phrased it. I had left it in the mailbox with a tag "OUTGOING". I had begun doing this so the main guy could just take it from there, rather than come to my apt. Well, it was gone later, and never scanned. Cost me $50 loss, and fast forward to now, another loss of around $60. Normally I have the guy come to my apt. but we were heading past the PO anyway and it was Saturday. I wanted it to go out rather than wait until Monday. Because of the previous incident I have had to request the guy come to my apt. to pickup all packages. I explained to him what had happened, and he gestured in a way that indicated he knew the alt carrier was a complete POS. I give him some cash every holiday season as a thank you for the amazing service.

But what do I do? In the past the PO agent just shrugged. Many of them do not speak English, so I can't be certain they even understand me. I had gone to the annex building, which is where the main PO told me to go, after having to go to that one to deal with it. Basically, ineptitude and apathy in every direction.

The only reason I have not long ago just changed to using UPS is because I have a disability and it is extremely helpful that USPS does pickup for free. If I had to go to the UPS store near me every time to ship packages, it's very painful in the literal sense.

USPS is becoming completely unreliable and for anything over $150 I always use UPS anyway, even with the inconvenience and pain. Is that my only option? Start using UPS strictly for all shipments? I honestly think some carriers are just stealing shit, because many other people are experiencing the same thing. Unless you stand in line for an hour and get a receipt, you can assume an agent will just take your package home for a free gift to themselves.

I know this was a long rant, and I apologize, but given my condition, it gives me a lot of fulfillment to run my eBay shop, and this situation is pissing me off so much. Is there any way I can even fight this if they didn't scan it and I don't have a receipt because I made the mistake of just trusting them to do their goddamn job?

I don’t know if it is intentional as a reaction to the scuttlebutt about the possibility of the Postal Service being shut down entirely, or if it’s just the workers in these times… I used to be able to really rely upon USPS to get the job done, and diligently.

Recently I have had many packages that they pickup but don’t scan, and I’m assuming the carrier just steals them because the buyer never receives them. The other day instead of a pickup I actually dropped off two items to the post office near me. One of them has updated tracking but the other just says label created awaiting etc. as to say, it hasn’t been given to the postal service. But I dropped two items together right onto the counter inside the shielded “airlock” thing.

To just not bother scanning one is just ridiculous. I mean, they can’t be fired no matter what they do so what is someone supposed to do in this case? They can just not bother doing their job and there’s no consequence.

I’ve lost money because of their apathy and ineptitude. Several times.

Hey all, I'm wondering - some of the Samsung devices specifically the Note phone and the Note tablet come with some pretty nice apps like S-Note, Scrapbook and Story Album. Is there a way to install these once I put a custom or GSI ROM onto the device? Will it still be recognized, let's say by the Samsung Galaxy Store app, and deploy these apps? I know some of them have their own engine and other associated components. I've never been able to get them installed manually.

Has anyone put together a way to put them on?

Hey all, I was just wondering why on XDA is the Galaxy A13 pretty much a ghost? It's not in the Devices listings, and there doesn't seem to have ever been any ROMs or TWRP et all, for this model. Was it just super locked-down?

Hey all, I've been selling online for 27 years now and several years back I sold Mercari for quite a while. When they pulled the auto-destruct move by shifting fees to the buyers and demanding a fee for every transfer of proceeds, I along with some thousands of other sellers ditched. I even had a purchase that never arrived, and my last experience with them was submitting support tickets on a daily basis for a couple of weeks, during which absolutely no response was received. So that's when I actually deleted my account and forgot about them entirely.

That being said, for a short while when I was selling, there were some product categories in which I did extremely well. Made tons of sales and made a handsome profit. Some types of items for whatever reason are very difficult to get sales on eBay, whereas on Mercari I was very successful.

So I wanted to check in with the community and ask, how is the platform faring nowadays? Are they still charging buyers the fees, or have they come to their senses and changed that back? Do they still charge a fee for every funds withdrawal?

I'd love to hear how you all are doing on this platform these days. I never understood why, but it was clear they were trying to bring the company down and bankrupt it; if not then they got the world's dumbest person to enact those changes. Either way...

Last night I put on Takedown (aka Track Down, aka Hackers 2) for my wife to watch, since she had never seen it and is not really part of the tech culture. She was curious about it though.

But then I read that he died of pancreatic cancer in 2023. I had not heard about it. So sad.

Not really much more of a point to the post other than it took me by surprise because somehow I just missed the news about it.