Comments on: Gift Card Alert: USPS may have lost the gift card you mailed

By: Gift Cards lost in the mail due to poor packaging | Gift Card Blog

Gift Cards lost in the mail due to poor packaging | Gift Card Blog — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:04:18 +0000

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By: giftcardsstolen

giftcardsstolen — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:52:00 +0000

Are you honestly stupid enough to believe the PO when they told you this story? A slit in it? Loosely closed packagin? Are you seriously this blind? Your car was spent, do you know what that means? Somebody opened it and took it! This happened to me this year. We purposely wrapped a cardboard Priority Mail (don’t let those two words fool you) envelope, in packing tape to prevent the “accidental popping open from loose fastening.” There was absolutely no way this thing could have opened on it’s own. The tape was cut and then the end was crumpled and our family picture we sent was cramped back into the envelope and one of the “I’m Sorry” stickers slapped on the outside. My brother got only the picture, no gift cards. These were spent the day after Christmas. My mom just got her package from my sister, with the Christmas letter in it and no gift card. Now, remind me how stupid you are for actually thinking these things just fall out everywhere on the floor! if this were the case then it would happen with all typed of mail, not just mail that has gift cards, and it wouldn’t happened increasingly during the holidays! It’s obvious these low-life 5th ward residents hired by the postal service are the culprits and we should put these people back on the streets until they can get an education enough to get real jobs and learn how to pay for their own things.

By: GiftCardBlogger™

GiftCardBlogger™ — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:47:19 +0000

Hi Ed, it appears that your cards were stolen at the same place and the common denominator here is at your local post office.

By: Ed Muldoon

Ed Muldoon — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:19:02 +0000

My wife mailed a birthday card with a restaurant gift card in it and the recipient never received it . Now, two weeks later I get a call from my sister asking if I received her card and the two gift cards in it . I didn’t . Something seems very wrong that two incidents within such a short time would happen to the same person . I see that companies are advertising their gift cards on TV , warning ….not a good idea . Send a check .

By: Mary Sneed

Mary Sneed — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:16:27 +0000

More postal employees than you would guess steal from the mailstream. Usually we just force them to resign if caught, but sometimes we fire them, especially for a second offense, and sometimes, though rarely, we prosecute them. It’s actually not too hard to catch who uses a stolen gift card if the cops/postal inspectors, etc really want to expend the effort.

By: GiftCardBlogger™

GiftCardBlogger™ — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:25:41 +0000

Hi Mary, thanks for confirming what I have always suspected

By: Mary Mikula

Mary Mikula — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:21:14 +0000

This is great to know since it just happened to me. On june 19th I purchased $200.00 in gas cards, they were mailed to me on July 2nd, I received them on July 2nd. The envelope they were in was on top of two other letters in my locked mailbox. When I pulled the mail out I noticed the gas card envelope was damaged and there was a slit about size of gift card along the bottom and all gift cards were missing, i went to post office right away, although I do not know office they were sent from yet, they barely even looked at envelope and said nothing they could do. After my going there twice and calling once they finally decided to look in machine and that was 2 days ago and still have not heard back. The damage on the envelope looks man made not machine so that would point directly to postal employee and reading story above about card being used a week later also points toward postal employee since I they supposedly send them to Minn. to be destroyed in 30 days.

By: GiftCardBlogger™

GiftCardBlogger™ — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:16:47 +0000

BA in VA, thanks for stopping by. Great point!

By: BA in VA

BA in VA — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:13:24 +0000

Is this mandated by federal procedure to send the gift cards for destruction to Minnesota? Non-profits take note and tell your lobbyists to get to work on this one! Maybe a registry of these unredeemed cards would help the gifters or issuers to get some charitable contributions to their credit when this happens. I recall a ridiculous number of gift cards my late mother-in-law had stashed away & upon her death at least $700 in gift card value went to who-knows-whereville because no one was interested in figuring out what could be done with them. I consider many of the gift card issuers to be perpetuating a form of conversion which is generally illegal, but I’m sure they’ve worded their T&C to avoid this interpretation. Its a sad case of transactional robbery which well-intended gifters are falling prey out the flagoo. Turning a wrong into a right would be a nice turn of the coin on this horrid situation.

By: Gift Card Fraud & Scam Series Part II: Gift Cards Stolen from Mail | Gift Card Blog

Thu, 29 May 2008 10:32:24 +0000

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