What do you do when a pin is lost in the mail?
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So in good faith you mail a pin to a trader and their pin arrives to you but yours gets lost in the mail and they never receive it, and of course there is the flipside where your pin never arrives but they get theirs. WHAT DO YOU DO?
This is a good question and while I have asked it, it is actaually from another trader that I tried to explain what should happen. Here is my opinion.
When you make a deal with a fellow trader, you are commiting that you will get the promised pins to them as they will to you. Not many of us use insurance, sure we use delivery confirmation (Most of the time).
If a pin is lost in the mail, it is still your responsibility to make sure the other party receives their end of the deal.
If you decided not to insure it, then you are assuming the damages meaning that if it is lost, you will replace it, otherwise, you should have used insurance. As for delivery confirmation, that only lets you know the other party did in fact receive it.
So lets say you now used DC and it never arrived and the post office also can not produce proof it arrived? Bottom line is it did not get there and you have let down your end of the bargin and shoud resend a pin of equal value. It is not the receivers fault.
So I guess what I am saying is each sending party is responsible to make sure the pins get there and that is what insurance is for. If it did not get there and you sent 50 dollars of pins, your insurance will pay you the 50 dollars and you can resend pins (or replacements) at no loss.
I have only once not had a pin arrive and fortunately it is a trader I have done multiple trades with. We waited 10 days to see if it showed up and then I sent another pin to replace it. No I did not have insurance and the pin and postage was a loss but thats the chance you take.
If you send me a pin and it does not get here, its your responsibility, not the post office. And who knows the reason it did not make it? Maybe poor packaging and it ripped or of course the fact the Post Ofice loses thousands of pieces of mail.
What do (or would) you do? What is the proper precedure in your opinion?
What if I traded with you and used DC but it did not make it? Do YOU still expect a pin?
I really look forward to seeing how people feel about this. let me know if you agree with me and its each senders responsibility and thats what insurance is for.
So in good faith you mail a pin to a trader and their pin arrives to you but yours gets lost in the mail and they never receive it, and of course there is the flipside where your pin never arrives but they get theirs. WHAT DO YOU DO?
This is a good question and while I have asked it, it is actaually from another trader that I tried to explain what should happen. Here is my opinion.
When you make a deal with a fellow trader, you are commiting that you will get the promised pins to them as they will to you. Not many of us use insurance, sure we use delivery confirmation (Most of the time).
If a pin is lost in the mail, it is still your responsibility to make sure the other party receives their end of the deal.
If you decided not to insure it, then you are assuming the damages meaning that if it is lost, you will replace it, otherwise, you should have used insurance. As for delivery confirmation, that only lets you know the other party did in fact receive it.
So lets say you now used DC and it never arrived and the post office also can not produce proof it arrived? Bottom line is it did not get there and you have let down your end of the bargin and shoud resend a pin of equal value. It is not the receivers fault.
So I guess what I am saying is each sending party is responsible to make sure the pins get there and that is what insurance is for. If it did not get there and you sent 50 dollars of pins, your insurance will pay you the 50 dollars and you can resend pins (or replacements) at no loss.
I have only once not had a pin arrive and fortunately it is a trader I have done multiple trades with. We waited 10 days to see if it showed up and then I sent another pin to replace it. No I did not have insurance and the pin and postage was a loss but thats the chance you take.
If you send me a pin and it does not get here, its your responsibility, not the post office. And who knows the reason it did not make it? Maybe poor packaging and it ripped or of course the fact the Post Ofice loses thousands of pieces of mail.
What do (or would) you do? What is the proper precedure in your opinion?
What if I traded with you and used DC but it did not make it? Do YOU still expect a pin?
I really look forward to seeing how people feel about this. let me know if you agree with me and its each senders responsibility and thats what insurance is for.
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