I'm hoping the best for the box from Tom.
I chose US Post Office for delivery. Bad move on my part.
Today I have to go and chew out postmaster.
South Amboy post office has gone from damaging my goods, to stealing them.
The envelope took extra long to get to my mailbox.
The envelope was open. And the gift was missing.
Next couple of days should be fun :evil:
it may not be the post office personel who did it .
Last year, I had a lot of orchid orders , sometimes 2 ,3 boxes within one week, everything is fine .
Until one day near Christmas, there were 3 boxes, I came home and found the largest box with 90 degree large tear at the bottom with packing stuff partially pull out , lucky for me the seller put so much shredded paper in it that the thief was discouraged to hang around at the front porch and messing with the boxes .
Someone told me that near Christmas , thieves driving down from New York , and stealing boxes put at front doors in New Jersey suburbs (specially the Amboys area , which is closer to New York city)
After that , I ask sellers to put a lot of tapes around the box (so it is harder to tear it open by hand) and write large live plants labels ( so the thieves leave it alone) what makes me really mad is the orchids can survive the cold if the box is intact , but when the thieves make a hole or a tear , the cold temperature can get in and kill the plants
