I'm not sure this is an appropriate question for this forum, but I figured you smart, resourceful folks would know more than what my Googling was able to teach me.
A relative sent me a rather expensive and irreplaceable holiday gift via USPS Priority Mail. The tracking log states that the package was delivered to me 12/22, but I have not received it. I live alone, so there's no one in the house to take it in withoit telling. In case it shows up, my relative is not telling me what's in it, but she has been suggesting, via email and phone almost every day, that I go to the post office to guilt the workers, because she's convinced that one of them stole the package.
Instead, I have:
1) asked my neighbors if one of them received it accidentally (no—I even checked the trash bins behind our houses for remnants of a package addressed to me, in case I missed a neighbor)
2) spoken to my postman (he recalls no such package for me, but adds that the USPS had additional help whose job was to deliver only the parcels)
3) checked at my local post office
4) as well as my town's main post office
5) where I've asked the Postmaster to search for it, and
6) opened an investigation via 1-800-ASK-USPS, which will retrace the package's entire itinerary to catch, e.g., whether misdeliveries or thefts are common on this route.
Depending on the result, I may be filing a police report. I feel awful for my relative, and Priority Mail parcels are starting to haunt my dreams.
Is there anything else I need to do? Thanks in advance.
