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For the past several weeks we have been trying to get a book. We have the tracking number but, first, it was detained in a derailed train... and apparently, the mailing address was mangled. Either way, it still can read the zip code, so it gets to our post office where there is "insufficient address" and from there it is sent to "dead letter" place (I think) and then back in a never ending circle. We warned the sender but that the book may arrive but...it is still in a circle. We wonder whether the "system" can even read the sender address.
One would think that since the tracking number is still intact, that someplace there should be the information of who sent it..
And.. it used to be that one could send an email to the Postmaster General but no such information is available. Calling the 800 number again puts us in a circle
Everything is automatic, they told us in the post office so we cannot even ask anyone to flag it. By the time we search for the tracking number online and run to the post office, it is already too late.
Any suggestions?
Bay Boy
(1,689 posts)... why not just tell the people who sold you the book to send you another one?
question everything
(47,418 posts)about astronomy that may be reprinted in 2014 at a higher price.
Everything about this book has been jinxed..
We first ordered from Amazon and went back and forth about it was supposed to have been shipped, but never arrived, then was no longer available. On e-bay, apparently, it is offered at... $400.
So we went to an astronomy supplies store in California and, it appears, was their last copy.
As I said, jinxed. But spouse really really wants it. Now. For the winter skies.
Sigh.
MineralMan
(146,243 posts)The book is doomed.
question everything
(47,418 posts)As we, the "Sputnik generation" age, fewer youngsters are interested in astronomy. Also, light pollution makes it harder to study the sky.
Still, amazing, that every other Saturday, the Minnesota Astronomical Society has a star party at Baylor Park in Carver Co. and many young kids do come. They also camp there.