05-10-2019 02:18 PM
I recently had a purchase from Puerto Rico fail to be delivered by USPS, resulting in the following exchange of messages with the buyer (see attached images). I'm pretty new to this, and I'm not sure what my obligation is at this point, much less what a best practice would be. Any advice?
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05-10-2019 02:42 PM
I would just show your post office a printout of the buyer saying that the address is correct & ask them to put it through again for no new charge. I had to do that a couple of times at my PO in the past and they were good about it and didnt charge anything more. Both things made it on the second attempt.
05-10-2019 02:27 PM
05-10-2019 02:31 PM
I don't know if your buyer will understand that they have to submit more money to have the item reshipped. You've tried to complete the sale but sometimes - it's not going to work. I would inform the buyer that you are cancelling the sale due to an insufficient address - refund them and get your FVFs back.
05-10-2019 02:39 PM
I did just now to check, and it appears the address exists. I got a single result anyways, but I don't know what all the info it shows when you click on the address means.
It gave me the extra 4 digits for the zip code, if that may help?
05-10-2019 02:42 PM
I would just show your post office a printout of the buyer saying that the address is correct & ask them to put it through again for no new charge. I had to do that a couple of times at my PO in the past and they were good about it and didnt charge anything more. Both things made it on the second attempt.
05-10-2019 02:43 PM
Yeah, I guess I may have to.
In this event, do I just have to eat the shipping cost?
05-10-2019 02:45 PM
I didn't realize there was a possibility to resend without additional cost. I'll definitely ask!
05-10-2019 02:45 PM
05-10-2019 02:49 PM
05-11-2019 05:17 PM
@theknightsreserve wrote:I didn't realize there was a possibility to resend without additional cost. I'll definitely ask!
Yeah - I dont know how official that policy is - but I can say that both times this happened to me I just took the returned package back to the PO and said look - I have contacted with the buyer and they said that this is the correct address and do not know why it would be returned - so can you please just send it again? Both times they were good with that and the package arrived. Just be polite and make it clear that you did your homework to verify the address with the buyer.
05-11-2019 05:31 PM
05-11-2019 05:40 PM
@theknightsreserve wrote:Yeah, I guess I may have to.
In this event, do I just have to eat the shipping cost?
Why don't you just speak to the postal supervisor and tell her the address DOES exist and they failed to deliver it. I have had to do this a few times and I've never had to pay to reship it... Heck, one item went round 3 until it finally got delivered.