New USPS Scam.

[turnJBup]

In the never ending chapter of drymounting thieves trying to steal from me here’s a new one.
I sold a poster on Facebook $275.
***SEPT 12, 2021
Good & Services. I printed out the label as usual via PayPal and shipped it right away.
Friday I get a message from the bottom feeding scammer saying he never received it.
Yes… we are 10 days away from it being 5 months since it was shipped.

He sends me the tracking numbers, I punch them in.
It says label created, not yet in system.
I re-check my records. Guess what? Those aren’t even my tracking numbers! So I punch in the correct tracking numbers to our transaction and. … same message!
Every last one of my tracking numbers via PayPal, eBay, and the usps counter say that.
DOZENS.
From July - September. They apparently expire?
I go down to the post office and waste an entire morning on this scam.
The postmaster types in the numbers.. “ Oh. Weird “
He does not believe me about every last one of my receipts stating label created not in system.
He kind of blows me off. So I go down there again with a stack of paper receipts from HIS Post Office.
He enters every last one of them. 11 in total all say the same thing.

The Facebook guy is threatening to open a case against me.
The postmaster says he’s busy but he hopefully will have time to look into it.
WTF.
Help.

[ygolohcysp]

I see the same thing with September shipments. I actually noticed this about a year ago when I had to follow up on an order I hadn't received and overlooked. When I initially made the inquiry it had the status of label created not dropped off yet. Then when the seller responded to me a week later and I looked at the tracking again it had the status that you are seeing.

[turnJBup]

Ugh.
What happened?
Did he forget to send?

If this post master blows me off, I don’t know what to do.

[turnJBup]

The Postmaster stood there confused as all hell.
I don’t think he knows how to proceed.

[ygolohcysp]

Ugh.
What happened?
Did he forget to send?

If this post master blows me off, I don’t know what to do.

Right I ended up getting a refund but I wondered to myself what tracking status they saw on their end when they checked and whether they thought I was trying to scam them.

[jamel-d]

So, maybe it’s me, but when I ship USPS, I always put in my email address so as to be informed each time it’s scanned. When it’s delivered, I get a final email telling me the item has been delivered.
Sorry to hear about your experience, JB.

[turnJBup]

I had no idea I my ass was in the wind.
Why the drymount do I pay for tracking if it doesn’t track the damn thing?
I guess I’ll go down to the main office in Ventura at some point.

[selfishstyle]

Yeah, unfortunately I do believe USPS tracking numbers do expire. I have saved loads of tracking numbers for the last 1 and a half years for my own records and if I sporadically check some of the older ones they will all show up as "not yet in system". I do not know how long it takes for them to expire, I just know they eventually do. My guess is they are wiped out 3-6 months after they are created (from doing some online searching). I also believe tracking numbers are re-used. If I remember correctly it happened to me once that I had an old tracking number which I checked later on and the history was for a completely different package.

[turnJBup]

Yes. That appears to be the case.
Postmaster said it would probably say something different if it was not delivered.
But this guy..: He actually sent me someone else’s tracking numbers. He’s going down the list seeing how we can steal from. He can’t keep track of who’s who.
Let me know if I can post his name in here.
Guessing some cases we should be able to make an exception.

[haven]

If the tracking numbers expire before 6 months then it’s complete horseshit that PayPal gives 6 months to file a claim.

[turnJBup]

Bingo.

[ygolohcysp]

So, maybe it’s me, but when I ship USPS, I always put in my email address so as to be informed each time it’s scanned. When it’s delivered, I get a final email telling me the item has been delivered.
Sorry to hear about your experience, JB.

This is a great way to mitigate this risk, thank you!

[jamel-d]

So, maybe it’s me, but when I ship USPS, I always put in my email address so as to be informed each time it’s scanned. When it’s delivered, I get a final email telling me the item has been delivered.
Sorry to hear about your experience, JB.

This is a great way to mitigate this risk, thank you!

Once I get the ‘delivered’ email, I put it in a folder, if needed. So far, so good.

[turnJBup]

So, maybe it’s me, but when I ship USPS, I always put in my email address so as to be informed each time it’s scanned. When it’s delivered, I get a final email telling me the item has been delivered.
Sorry to hear about your experience, JB.

Where do you put in your email address? At the counter? I’ve seen the keypad prompter asked if I want an email receipt. Is it there?
Or eBay/ PayPal? Thank you!

[jamel-d]

So, maybe it’s me, but when I ship USPS, I always put in my email address so as to be informed each time it’s scanned. When it’s delivered, I get a final email telling me the item has been delivered.
Sorry to hear about your experience, JB.

Where do you put in your email address? At the counter? I’ve seen the keypad prompter asked if I want an email receipt. Is it there?
Or eBay/ PayPal? Thank you!

I put in the tracking number at the USPS website online. From there, you can get text messages or emails as the package is scanned.