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<p>[QUOTE="say_it_slowly, post: 121126, member: 50"]It will be interesting to see what the PO can come up with regarding theft. I don't know if anyone on this board knows the inner workings of the system and I certainly don't but I recently did find out something I didn't know.</p><p><br /></p><p>After the big snow last month we didn't have mail delivery for a week. During that time I had three packages that tracking showed had made it to town and actually two were showing as out for delivery which I doubted since they weren't delivering our mail. Anyway I went to pick them up at the PO warehouse that handles mail these days and they retrieved my mail and two of the three packages. They were having a hard time finding the third one so I gave them the tracking number. They entered it in their computer and it brought up a photo of the whole package including the label. I don't know if they routinely photograph packages and if so if it is done at all transfer points but I had no idea that they had such good detailed information.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found it to be interesting and I'm wondering if it might play into investigations of theft and damage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="say_it_slowly, post: 121126, member: 50"]It will be interesting to see what the PO can come up with regarding theft. I don't know if anyone on this board knows the inner workings of the system and I certainly don't but I recently did find out something I didn't know. After the big snow last month we didn't have mail delivery for a week. During that time I had three packages that tracking showed had made it to town and actually two were showing as out for delivery which I doubted since they weren't delivering our mail. Anyway I went to pick them up at the PO warehouse that handles mail these days and they retrieved my mail and two of the three packages. They were having a hard time finding the third one so I gave them the tracking number. They entered it in their computer and it brought up a photo of the whole package including the label. I don't know if they routinely photograph packages and if so if it is done at all transfer points but I had no idea that they had such good detailed information. I found it to be interesting and I'm wondering if it might play into investigations of theft and damage.[/QUOTE]
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