Here's the scoop on the packages being ripped or having holes. I spoke to the post master ( not my mailman) today. If the package doesn't have a local addy when it goes to the post office or the return addy is the same as the send to addy the post office checks to see what is in the package but poking or ripping it. They wouldn't even take my package as it has all stamps on it. Now I have to try and resend it. 9/11 is responsible for even screwing up the US mail service.