I've had similar problems, although not quite on your scale of 10-20.
Last year I moved to a small town where I got my first "career" job,
this town's postal service proceeded to promptly lose my first car
insurance payment (i.e. they didn't get it) and one month later, lost
records that I was sending PRIORITY. 4 and a half months later, the
person received their records!! 2-3 days garateed my ass.
That happened the first 2-3 months that I lived here, since then I've
had them lose another 2 packages. But, I've learned my lesson: All
packages that I send, I insure, period. Unless, of course (isn't this
convenient) it is addressed to an oversees addressee. Then I get a
proof of postage or sometimes even register it.
I wish I had a convenient way of using UPS instead for packages. They
really seem to have their act together (being privately owned and all),
but they haven't trully expanded their market to the consumer level
except in urban areas.
Wishing the stereotypes weren't true about U.S. Postal Workers...
Kev.
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