Finally, we’re getting to the answer to my initial question. Thank you. The damages in the instance are having my case put on hold and my monthly compensation check cut off. God knows what I may have to do to get my case turned back on. see, OWCP now thinks that I didn’t send my information in on time, when in fact, I did. I sent it two weeks ahead of schedule and now, thanks to the USPS, it took 13 days to get there and it’s STILL WAITING FOR A SIGNATURE !!
This link states that the United States can’t be sued. So this basically tells me that the Postal Service can pretty do anything they want with your mail and get away with it. That’s not right. No accountability at all. Screw the 3 bucks I spent, I’d rather have the$_____ bucks a month in workers comp payments that may be cut off from me here shortly.
My reference to USPS Express Mail was intended to counter several earlier posts that talked about Priority Mail as a better, and possibly faster, alternative to Certified. In fact, Priority Mail is often no faster than ordinary first class, and has no guaranteed delivery date.
If the OP had used Express Mail, chances are extremely good his envelope would have been delivered the very next day, and if not, probably the day after that at the latest. Certainly not more than ten days later.
A question to the OP: Did you ask the postal clerk about all your delivery options, or did you only ask how long Certified would take? Did you consider Priority or Express, both of which could have provided a return receipt?
I just received a letter yesterday from a US government agency that was posted in February… that is to say it reached my Nevada address yesterday, nearly 5 months after it was sent.
Even in this day and age, many businesses will only act on signed original documents, which rules out fax or e-mail. I don’t know if this is one of those cases, but it may well be.
Save whatever tracking information you can, particularly if it shows the date you mailed the letter. If you write to the relevant office with an explanation that the lateness of the filing was caused by an unusually long mail delay, and back it up with tracking information, they may cut you a break.
Well, I pretty much know about all the options, as I’ve used just about all of them in the past when I used to sell on eBay. I sent it Certified because I knew that it only takes about 2-3 days TOPS to get to Kentucky, plus there is some sort of verification of receipt. That’s all I really needed because I had two whole weeks before the letters that I mailed were due. There was really no rush. If there had been a rush, I would’ve used express or even overnight certified, but I had two weeks to deliver. The whole problem is is that it took them the whole two weeks to deliver a certified mail envelope.
see: www.usps.com and here is the tracking number:
My experience with the USPS on-line tracking system is that they seldom keep proper track of the progress of the package - they often only scan it when it reaches its destination. It’s possible that your letter has actually been picked up and is close to delivery but that they haven’t put that info in the database. Of course, this makes the tracking system next to useless - all you can reliably tell is whether the package has been delivered.
I just saw that earlier. Thank Goodness ! haha, I was ONE DAY late ! I had until the 16th to get my paperwork in there, hopefully my case worker will see what happened. I did send her a letter (overnight) yesterday letting her know the situation and I also gave her usps.com and the tracking number so she can see fer herself. Woohoo ! I’m happy now. lol Thansk all ! I appreciate all the help.
I one time paid extra to have a notebook computer overnight delivered to me. It took the carrier 3 business days to deliver it - I can’t remember if this was UPS or Fedex.
I asked the carrier to reimburse me for the difference between 3 day shipping and overnight shipping. They said they can’t refund it to me since I didn’t pay for it to start with, but that they would refund it to the company I bought the notebook from.
The company that I bought the notebook from refused to find a way to refund that shipping amount to me. Somehow, the place I bought the notebook from (who you know is already outrageously overcharging me for the shipping rate) made an extra $28.94 because I had to wait for my notebook.
I don’t know what kind of recompense a shipper or receiver has against the shipping company.