I've always received the seeds or - once - the letter. But I've had stuff not arrive that I knew was sent, mostly "mail type mail," but a couple of packages, too. I attributed some to local thievery because I later found some of my junk mail along the road. But I've no idea about the rest.
I also end up being the final link in the chain for a few packages and IDK how many random envelopes/magazines/etc. every year, because they wind up in my mailbox instead of the correct neighbors'. But, hey, at least my local mail carriers (there are several, must be an orphan route) try, I guess. Every year, there are a few articles/reports about postal carriers who get caught, one way or the other, either disposing of mail items they were supposed to deliver or with garages/homes so full of the stuff that they qualify as hoarders. And then there's all the stuff that ends up in the USPS' Mail Recovery Center (used to be known as the dead letter office). I don't have more recent statistics, but in 2011, that amounted to 53.4 million items. And it was over 90 million in 2006. I think it's the only place they can (legally) open people's mail without having credible suspicion of a crime (so they can attempt to find intended recipient information). They managed to eventually deliver 43% of that (in 2011), recycled a lot of the rest, gave some to charity... and hold huge auctions each month. Those things got so big that they stopped doing in-person auctions and went to the online auction model. I think "GovtDeals" is the entity that handles that.
In other words, shit... really does happen. The USPS delivered 143 billion pieces of mail last year, so - assuming that both the 2019 delivery and 2011 MRC statistics are typical - then the odds are still quite low (like four hundredths of a percent) that any one item will ever end up in the MRC, though. Statistics on the number of items that get stolen or thrown away by asshole postal employees, mis-delivered and kept by the person who ended up receiving them, and just "lost without a trace" are, of course, impossible to calculate. And I didn't bother to look up statistics for other package carriers (UPS, FedEx, etc.). I also forgot to try to figure out what the estimate is for foreign-source mail/packages that appear to enter one of our ISC complexes and somehow vanish from there.
It was probably suggested as a possibility.
It's amazing how buying a few ads here will make some here to contort themselves into making excuses for strangers. Some like you even jump into months old threads to defend them.
Obviously; had it gotten all the way to "your end," it wouldn't have disappeared, lol - it would have been delivered (to the intended recipient).
Slow reader, maybe
. I give the person credit for not immediately jumping to the very last page of a thread. When that happens, we get questions that have already been answered in the same thread (often multiple times). Or, as with what the rep for The Vault had to deal with earlier this year, a bunch of people attempting to enter contests long after they'd already been concluded and the prizes sent out. Which was funny the first couple of times it happened, then sad, and then merely annoying. DISCLAIMER: I had an issue with this sponsor early on (but that's water under the bridge). I have never ordered from the business, although I suppose I'd be willing to consider them IF I had room in my budget for cannabis seed purchases and was looking for house-brand strains. And I am no one's bitch - although I do try to give the benefit of the doubt, at least initially.
