I hate to break a trend but over the last three years I've mailed six rifles and three barrels from N.Y. to Montana and Iowa and have had no problems with the U.S.P.S. in sending them or having them returned. Maybe I'm just lucky. At any rate I try not to complain about things that I have no control over and as to the idea that if everyone called or voiced their complaints things will change, well they won't. By the way, my post office serves about two hundred customers so maybe that has something to do with it.

Had good & bad with USPS. One good one was an expensive tang sight I sent to Vall. From S. Jersey all the way across the U.S. to Oregon. When they told me that it would be there in 4 days, I laughed. Yea right. Well, it got there in 3 days. I couldn't believe it. I just couldn't believe it. Go figure.  Dale.

Mailed a package from Kansas to San Antonio Tx March 6 it was lost for 8 days, finally got an update yesterday, it arrived at the St Paul Mn distribution center. Only USPS would route a package from Kansas to San Antonio thru St Paul.
Mike

I mailed a man a check for a scope about 4 days ago.

According to the tracking information the envelope was received by the recipient at 11 AM today.. 
GREAT.. !..right.... Well no not so great, the intended receiver called me tonight and said he got the same info from USPS but he did not get the envelope. 

I had included a AirTag for him to include in the return package with the scope. I was able to give him the address where the package was last seen, which was only a few blocks away, he went there while I was on the phone with him, gave him the street address (where it had pinged 4 minutes earlier) and the approximate location (NE corner of the house address).

I sent a signal to the AirTag to beep / ping the device, Sure enough it was right there. I could actually hear the ping thru his cell phone from half across the country. So score another point for the benefits of AirTags.

It's also worth noting that UPS has started to put RFID tags on their packages. 
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Searched, : UPS, Yes, UPS has widely implemented "
Smart Label" RFID technology in their network,

A package sent to me has been stuck in the Kansas City distribution center 40 miles away for a week now.

Anytime you "HAVE TO" deal with a government agency, you are pretty much screwed.

They don't give a hoot... Because they have job protections that the private sector does not have.

Got a notice in my POBox that a 'package' could not fit in my box and that it was being held in the back. OK, Great, Thanks.

When I returned from a out of town trip I went to retrieve the 'package' and was told 'ahh we can't find it right now, there is a line of people waiting, come back another day..!'

Went back a couple of days later and was told 
by a rather rude surly Postal employee that, oh we only keep packages for 7 days, we probably returned it to sender. !.. WTHeck?

OK, I'll call them and get them to mail it again, who was the sender... Ahh we don't have that information.. OK, Really?.. So why am I paying you $300.00 a year for that Box?

Very frustrating.. Going forward I try to use UPS via Pirate Ship.
Just for comparison purposes, 

A package (*8X6X14"box) weighing 3.7 lbs) was sent to me via USPS. It cost the sender $24.10. ground.

Unfortunately I had to send it back. I did so using Pirate Ship's / UPS relationship. It cost $15.xx, same box, same weight, same route but this time it has a UPS RFID chip.   

[quote author=4B5F4851513D0 link=1769398800/70#70 date=1775037471]I wasn't going to comment on this thread until I got a final answer to a loss that occurred back in December.  I sent 2 rolls of Tin wire via insured USPS priority mail.