This is what USPS did to my package

[johnwhiplash]

 The post office in Seattle did this. Looks like someone deliberately burned it. I shipped it in a plastic bubble mailer. Luckily, my return address was still visible.

[tarpedge]

Does the tracking show delivery before it was returned?

[do.you.read.me]

Looks more like buyer remorse, and a way to guarantee it can't be delivered to them, but will be returned to sender.

[fart20cool]

Person could have been somoking a cecalit

[phcd1]

It may have gotten caught on the belt and has a friction burn. What does DC say?

[johnwhiplash]

Tracking shows it went to the post office in Seattle and then back to me. At first, I thought the buyer did it because he no longer wanted the item, but it never made it to the buyer.

[duchess-at-speakeasy]

The damage occurred en route BEFORE the package reached Seattle -- they had no choice but to send the package to the only visible address.

I agree, it looks like a machinery problem . . . although such precise defacing is unusual and looks more like the original sender burned the plastic, not USPS equipment or personnel.

USPS generally bags and tags damaged packaging and notes the reason for return.  A scratched-out address technically is not damage.  Don't we all blot out extraneous barcodes and images on boxes or envelopes?  Lacking a Sharpie, I can see someone using a cigarette to melt plastic and remove information, can't you?

~~C~~

[phcd1]

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@johnwhiplash wrote:

Tracking shows it went to the post office in Seattle and then back to me. At first, I thought the buyer did it because he no longer wanted the item, but it never made it to the buyer.

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Yeah, that got caught with that tracking. Too bad it doesn't say damaged also. Typically they bag it and tag it though, kind of odd. I would take it to the PO and bring another label with you and see if the PO would ship it with the original label. That way the original tracking and time stamp stays in place.

[uncle-papaw]

Maybe it was in a truck that caught fire or an airplane that crashed.