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[shostahoosier]

A friend of mine is driving me crazy complaining about his latest setback in Korea.

He had a package mailed from the US.
The package was delivered to the wrong address.

The woman who signed for it said that no one claimed it so she decided to put it back out for the mailman to pick up, but that it mysteriously vanished.

The Korean mail service has already "apologized" and are discussing some form of compensation, however I guess my friend is really angry at the woman who signed for it knowing it did not belong to her and then later letting the package "disappear". He wants to hold her accountable regardless of what the Korean post office does.

I told him to try getting advice from his co-teacher or to look up Korean law, but apparently everyone is saying that it's no big deal and thats what is making him go crazy (which is annoying me).

What can be done?

Can my friend do anything to the woman who signed for the missing package?

...and to think...I was going to have some stuff sent to me for summer. I recently looked up the threads on how crappy the Korean Post Office is.

[greatunknown]

So your friend wants to what? Have her arrested? Thrown in jail? Sue her? I would probably just let it go... Making this womans life miserable because of a lapse in judgement won't get him his package back.

�The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.�

Your friend is already being compensated by the post office, does he really need to create legal troubles for someone for a mistake they made? IMO pursuing this is a waste of time.

I've lost belongings due to neighbor's stupidity (apartment building fire, negligence was a factor) it was frustrating. Good luck either way

[saram_]

[ttompatz]

Goes to show... if you are sending stuff from home, SEND IT TO YOURSELF AT YOUR SCHOOL!!!

There is someone there to receive it, it won't go astray and you will get it promptly.

In regards to your friend - this isn't the litigious states of America.
There is NO recourse against the lady. There is minimal recourse against K-post. What happened is common in Korea. Someone signed for it, couldn't figure out who in the building it belonged to (and he probably didn't look for a note next to the post boxes or couldn't read it if he did see it.)

It was unclaimed by the recipient (reason doesn't matter) and returned to the post office. Since it probably didn't have return international postage guaranteed it would eventually be destroyed at the main post office.

Tell his to get over it.

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[BoholDiver]

But the woman needs to know how badly she MOD EDIT. I get sick of old people here doing stupid shit like that without thinking.

If the woman knows how mad he is, that might knock some sense into her.

Does the post office let anyone sign for anything? Can I go to the OP's house, stand in front and sign for his possessions, then take them? Sounds like a good deal.

[shostahoosier]

[shostahoosier]

sorry let me clarify.

By wrong address it wasnt delivered to someone "across the hall" or "downstairs". It was delivered to a completely different area of town (which is a huge area but still rural).

[Troglodyte]

[BringTheRain]

He'll lose his other package if he doesn't stand up to the postal service in this one.

[shostahoosier]

[NYC_Gal]

I sent a jpeg of my address written in both Korean and English to my family and friends. I've still had problems with packages. One was sent to the wrong building, then sent back to the states. Another came 2 months after arriving in Korea, even though I called the post office often (I use the PO online tracker every time a parcel is sent).

The post office here isn't as efficient as back home. I have the same jpeg of my address on my ipod thingie, and I've gone to the post office asking where my parcels are.

6 have come through. 3 have had problems. I've used fedex as well, and it's far better, though costs a fortune. One larger parcel cost nearly $350 to send, but it was important, so I wired my mother the money.

[Xuanzang]

I would have it sent to my workplace. Usually, never fails to arrive.

[Troglodyte]

[djsmnc]

[shostahoosier]

I think I mentioned earlier that he did have it addressed to his work address (a school) but the delivery person sent it to some place completly unrelated anyway.

Sounds to me like the Korean post office is even less reliable than the USPS.

From what Ive read so far, I'm only having something mailed if I can live with never receiving it (maybe some clothes or a book). If it's something expensive (electronics) I'm having it come Fed Ex.

So much for mailing a money order like someone suggested in another thread.