I had a package go missing. I sent a package full of items, including a quilt to Airedale Rescue in Wisconsin for an auction. I'm glad that I sent it early. After a few weeks, it still didn't show up. Dumb me, I didn't insure or ask for delivery confirmation. Never need it before. After about SIX weeks I got a call from the 'Haz/Mat' department of the US Postal service in San Antonio. Told me that they had a package there from me. I asked how it got there. They said since it was in a liquor box, it could not go through the mail. It was a sturdy box the right size. On the outside, you could see that it was a box from W.L. Weller, which is a bourbon or whiskey. You could definitely tell that there was not liquor in the box. It was not wrapped, just taped shut with an address label on it. I was told that I couldn't use that kind of box because it could be mistaken for liquor. I asked why would a postal employee except it if it wasn't authorized. Her replay was that the employee probably didn't know it wasn't authorized. My reply was 'if your own employees don't know, how do you think I would know'? First they told me I would have to pick up the box and wrap it. I told them I was about 200 hundred miles from there. Finally they did agree to send it on.