A short summary and valid warning to all those who order things online using "TRACKED DELIVERY!"
THE FOLLOWING POST IS LITTLE KNOWN AND DISGUSTING.
It points out the logic behind TRACKING NUMBERS on parcels that do NOT need a signature.
All tracking does is guarantee, at YOUR expense, the sellers finances; YOUR money. YOU lose it if the parcel goes astray.
Tracking ONLY protects the seller BUT incredibly YOU have to pay for it.
TRACKING NUMBERS... We assume the extortions charged for tracking so that we can go to an idiots screen and excitedly watch where our parcel is guarantees it will get to us.
In the case of ALLIANCEHOBBY.COM (Legal issues in that declaration welcome) Tracking numbers may be paid for (by you) but a signature is not required.
This is a very cheap way of getting out of paying money for higher security postal services, making your goods look like they're cheaper to get to you and if the goods do NOT get to you the seller is high and dry because apparently (unless you have bank insurance.) the seller doesn't need to take the issue up legally with his postal service afterwards.
You Lose.
Your parcel will be logged as DELIVERED but it is untraceable as to WHO delivered it WHERE and to WHOM.
SAFEGUARD YOURSELF.
Make sure that the seller you buy from uses a "SIGNED FOR DELIVERY" service because nothing else will protect YOU. This will make THEM liable if the parcel goes astray. It also FORCES the postman to get a signature from SOMEONE from SOMEWHERE.
Tracking ONLY protects the seller but at YOUR expense. That's right. YOU just paid for THEIR safety if the parcel gets lost. YOU get nothing.
In the UK, a Postal Delivery Driver will throw that parcel away and save 2 hours on his travel time simply by marking it as delivered because it needs no signature.
This is common practice in the UK AND the States and many people argue over.
Postman and their services are strictly timed and given near impossible schedules and hence... parcels go missing by their £millions because its easier to lose it and keep your job than post it late and get a warning.
The topic stinks.
Its one ALL postal services wash their hands of.
TRACKING secures ONLY YOUR money in the sellers hands. It pays for NOTHING in your favour.
LEARN THIS. REMEMBER THIS.
You can relax about it as much as you like.
But when it happens to you, you read about it here first.
THE FOLLOWING POST IS LITTLE KNOWN AND DISGUSTING.
It points out the logic behind TRACKING NUMBERS on parcels that do NOT need a signature.
All tracking does is guarantee, at YOUR expense, the sellers finances; YOUR money. YOU lose it if the parcel goes astray.
Tracking ONLY protects the seller BUT incredibly YOU have to pay for it.
TRACKING NUMBERS... We assume the extortions charged for tracking so that we can go to an idiots screen and excitedly watch where our parcel is guarantees it will get to us.
In the case of ALLIANCEHOBBY.COM (Legal issues in that declaration welcome) Tracking numbers may be paid for (by you) but a signature is not required.
This is a very cheap way of getting out of paying money for higher security postal services, making your goods look like they're cheaper to get to you and if the goods do NOT get to you the seller is high and dry because apparently (unless you have bank insurance.) the seller doesn't need to take the issue up legally with his postal service afterwards.
You Lose.
Your parcel will be logged as DELIVERED but it is untraceable as to WHO delivered it WHERE and to WHOM.
SAFEGUARD YOURSELF.
Make sure that the seller you buy from uses a "SIGNED FOR DELIVERY" service because nothing else will protect YOU. This will make THEM liable if the parcel goes astray. It also FORCES the postman to get a signature from SOMEONE from SOMEWHERE.
Tracking ONLY protects the seller but at YOUR expense. That's right. YOU just paid for THEIR safety if the parcel gets lost. YOU get nothing.
In the UK, a Postal Delivery Driver will throw that parcel away and save 2 hours on his travel time simply by marking it as delivered because it needs no signature.
This is common practice in the UK AND the States and many people argue over.
Postman and their services are strictly timed and given near impossible schedules and hence... parcels go missing by their £millions because its easier to lose it and keep your job than post it late and get a warning.
The topic stinks.
Its one ALL postal services wash their hands of.
TRACKING secures ONLY YOUR money in the sellers hands. It pays for NOTHING in your favour.
LEARN THIS. REMEMBER THIS.
You can relax about it as much as you like.
But when it happens to you, you read about it here first.
