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Wednesday was a bad day. I thought I had some packages mis-delivered by the post office. 4 to be exact. One of which was a Samurai Shodown 1 I picked up from Liquid Snake, and a few other Neo Geo games totaling a little over $185.00.
My first clue was that I was suppose to receive 4 packages, and one had signature confirmation, which I never received a slip for to pick up. I was able to pick this one up in person. This led me to the conclusion, that all my mail that day was delivered to the wrong address.
After investigating for a few days, and doing things like checking the exact opposite address on the east side of my street, knocking on doors, and getting GPS tracking from the post office. Which they do now by the way when all packages come up lost and need to be tracked exactly where they are scanned in at. We came to the conclusion, one of the packages in the 4 package lot was was mis-keyed at the post office, and most likely delivered a few roads over.
So while driving to the said house, I realized the address was on campus. I put two and two together, and thought there was a very good chance since it would likely be a broke college student, that they would sell my games to the used game store down the road. I went to the house anyway, but while in transit, called the game store. No one answered in the house, but the road was full of cars, and I could have swore I heard people in there. I eventually gave up and left a note on her door explaining the situation, and to please call or text me if she had any information.
While on the way home I received a call from the game store, my games were there!
Found out they were sold only one hour after having been delivered. While in the shop the lady texted me and insisted she never saw my packages. I told her I would give her the benefit of the doubt, but I found my games at the game store, sold illegally, and if she had any information I would give her 10 minutes to respond, and come buy my games back to avoid filing a police report on culprit.
So I filed a report. The officer actually came pretty fast. Between the clerk at the store, and my pile of evidence consisting of post office print outs, ebay and paypal transactions, the officer decided to let the game shop sell me my games back for the measley $38.00 they paid for them.
Turns out the lady gave them a fake phone number, but they had her photo ID on file at the game store, and her on camera selling my stuff. Her address on the ID was also different, but the officer figured it was her parents address because it was out of Columbus. The chick was dumb enough to text me back at the game shop while the officer was there, so we got her real number.
So, the officer went there, feeling it would be a good place to start. He called me back shortly after stating he found her, even though her ID had a different address than the one the post office gave me.
So to sum up a long story...
BITCH WENT DOWN!
I filed a charge against her, and even though I may never see my $38.00, I got my games back, and hopefully she learned that she is stupid, and should think twice before stealing mail. Thank god I pestered the post office to get the print outs of her real address.
So for future reference. If you have missing mail do the following.
1. Call game stores asap. Tell them to stay on the lookout, and keep checking every day.
2. Go to post office, and if they are unwilling to help, demand GPS scan tracking, and to see how the packages were keyed in. I live at 177 and they keyed in 117 a few roads over. This took several attempts till I found a postal worker that was awesome and willing to help me. Don't give up!
3. Try the exact opposite address if you live on a street that is East/West side.
4. Last resort, knock on doors at random.
My first clue was that I was suppose to receive 4 packages, and one had signature confirmation, which I never received a slip for to pick up. I was able to pick this one up in person. This led me to the conclusion, that all my mail that day was delivered to the wrong address.
After investigating for a few days, and doing things like checking the exact opposite address on the east side of my street, knocking on doors, and getting GPS tracking from the post office. Which they do now by the way when all packages come up lost and need to be tracked exactly where they are scanned in at. We came to the conclusion, one of the packages in the 4 package lot was was mis-keyed at the post office, and most likely delivered a few roads over.
So while driving to the said house, I realized the address was on campus. I put two and two together, and thought there was a very good chance since it would likely be a broke college student, that they would sell my games to the used game store down the road. I went to the house anyway, but while in transit, called the game store. No one answered in the house, but the road was full of cars, and I could have swore I heard people in there. I eventually gave up and left a note on her door explaining the situation, and to please call or text me if she had any information.
While on the way home I received a call from the game store, my games were there!
Found out they were sold only one hour after having been delivered. While in the shop the lady texted me and insisted she never saw my packages. I told her I would give her the benefit of the doubt, but I found my games at the game store, sold illegally, and if she had any information I would give her 10 minutes to respond, and come buy my games back to avoid filing a police report on culprit.
So I filed a report. The officer actually came pretty fast. Between the clerk at the store, and my pile of evidence consisting of post office print outs, ebay and paypal transactions, the officer decided to let the game shop sell me my games back for the measley $38.00 they paid for them.
Turns out the lady gave them a fake phone number, but they had her photo ID on file at the game store, and her on camera selling my stuff. Her address on the ID was also different, but the officer figured it was her parents address because it was out of Columbus. The chick was dumb enough to text me back at the game shop while the officer was there, so we got her real number.
So, the officer went there, feeling it would be a good place to start. He called me back shortly after stating he found her, even though her ID had a different address than the one the post office gave me.
So to sum up a long story...
BITCH WENT DOWN!
I filed a charge against her, and even though I may never see my $38.00, I got my games back, and hopefully she learned that she is stupid, and should think twice before stealing mail. Thank god I pestered the post office to get the print outs of her real address.
So for future reference. If you have missing mail do the following.
1. Call game stores asap. Tell them to stay on the lookout, and keep checking every day.
2. Go to post office, and if they are unwilling to help, demand GPS scan tracking, and to see how the packages were keyed in. I live at 177 and they keyed in 117 a few roads over. This took several attempts till I found a postal worker that was awesome and willing to help me. Don't give up!
3. Try the exact opposite address if you live on a street that is East/West side.
4. Last resort, knock on doors at random.
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