NEVER send CASH

For what it's worth, I sent something out with a tracking number to San Jose and it wound up being delivered in Cheyenne, Wyoming from here in Denver about six months ago.

This was with USPS tracking.

If I ever send anything of $50+ value through the mail or anything difficult to replace of any value, I insure it and hand it to the Postal worker at the Post Office.

The only thing I set a flag up on my mailbox for are checks that I can cancel with a phone call.

I think it's BS that the end user has to insure their own packages because of risk taking when a service is being provided. I mean, yeah, I'm going to look out for myself and all, but how is it orthodox of the Post Office, which is a private institute that is contracted by the U.S. Government, get away with not having mandatory insurance? I mean, how would you feel if you dropped your car off at a shop and have it returned to you, missing one of the seats or the hubcaps? Would you just accept it with a shrug? Even worse if it was a Government contracted and regulated shop.

I know they have laws in place, but I think USPS as well as any other parcel service should be held monetarily accountable for missing mail that was recieved with a date stamp.

I will say, though, that I avoid UPS like the plague. I will use USPS ten times over, before making the choice to use UPS after the boxes I've recieved from them. FedEx is the worst at lying about deliveries sent and recieved in tracking.