I ordered an out of print record set and had it shipped registered mail from Japan. It took 3 weeks to get here. Finally arrives Monday August 5. I get a peach slip in the mail, telling me to go to 24 Corliss St. to pick up my package anytime after 6:30 August 5. Tuesday August 6, I go to the p.o. box area of the Corliss St. post office as instructed by my peach slip. The man cannot find my package and tells me to go across the street and look for a blue door and ring the bell for someone to help me. I ring the bell, no one comes to the door, so I ask a passing postal worker if he can help me. He goes inside and tells me to wait by the door with the doorbell and someone will be with me shortly. A woman named Debbie comes to the door and I explain to her my situation and hand her my peach slip and a copy of the shipping manifest the man had given me when i initially tried to retrieve my package at the main post office. She tells me to wait and disappears for a few minutes. She returns without my package, but explains to me that A) Someone else was also looking for a missing international registered package and, even more bizarre B) the woman in charge of this sort of thing, Shawna, was new to the facility and unfamiliar with it and I guess the specifics of... Who knows? I was then told to call Shawna herself at 401-752-5208 at around 11 the next morning because she would be busy with dispatch before then and apparently is gone before noon. I was told that if I did not speak to someone that I MUST leave a message. I called the number exactly SIX TIMES. this is the message I received: "You have reached the voicemail system. However the person at 5208 does not subscribe to this service. Call answering can't be completed. Transferring you to an agent. (a few rings, then...) your session can't be completed at this time. Goodbye." I then called 800 ask USPS and the MOST helpful lady answered, but I did not get her name. She explained to me that she had no idea how this package could be lost because, BY LAW, INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED MAIL IS SUPPOSED TO BE STORED UNDER LOCK AND KEY. She called the Corliss post office herself and spoke with someone, but they were less than useless; "i have no idea whats going on down there" were her exact words to me. She filed an inquiry for me and told me that if I did not hear from someone at close of business the next day (friday August 9) i should call my district consumer affairs number. I didnt even wait and called it immediately. They do not answer calls directly at consumer affairs, so you must leave a message. It has been 5 days since I received my peach slip and over a week that the package has been on U.s. soil. Besides my peach slip, Not one person has contacted me to let me know where this package is or that anyone gives a s*#t. Gee, I wonder why no one uses the post office anymore? read more