Some of you may remember Sara's Happy Quilt that I posted photos of a few weeks back. I also posted photo of Sara in a quilted jacket I made for her last year. Well Ladies, If any of you have a praying nature, I sure would appreciate it. I mailed the quilt a week ago, Priority Mail. According to the tracking it was delivered on Saturday at 10 am... I had the house number wrong by one digit!! The quilt never got to Sara!! Pray hard that someone will do the right thing and return it to me or track down 1731 Bollinger Rd, not 1730. I can't imagine I could live across the street from someone and not give them a mis-delivered package!!!!

oh no, hopefully you can track down who lives there and tell them where it is suppose to go, good luck!

Your in my prayers...Terrible thing to happen...

Jeannie,

Sorry to hear of your plight. Just an idea. . . why not just send a letter to the same address and request your wishes to the recipient. . . maybe they would be happy to comply. Best of luck. Brenda C

Here is praying for the best. Good luck.

Why wouldn't the person you sent it to knock on the door of the neighbor and ask about it?

I had something that was to be delivered and wasn't. The PO had it listed as "delivered"....a week later it was returned to the sender. I'm praying that's what's happening.

How frustating. I hope it is found soon.
This reminds me of when I ordered something from a craft catalog years ago (before the internet and easier parcel tracking). It was shipped UPS, but never arrived at my house. I called the local UPS office and was told it was left at the door of the porch on the side of the house. Well, my house did not have a side porch, but my neighbor's did. I did not know the neighbors (we were fairly new to the neighborhood), but went to their house and asked. They said: "Oh yeah, we got this package for you the other day. It's sitting here on the kitchen counter"! Argh...
Maybe it's worth checking with the neighbors....

Their keeping your mail is a federal offense. Go to the Post Office and file on this, and they will follow up on it.

I'm thinking positive. The quilt will come back to you. Have faith.

maybe you should send a second item to the incorrect address; a note telling the mistake and where it should go. the neighbors may not know sara is across the street; try telling them.
we will all keep our fingers crossed and keep a prayer going it all goes ok. postal errors are ......so frustrating!

Hope everything turns out right. How awful. Keep us posted.

In any case, the person who kept the quilt knows it is not their quilt.
They should at the very least have told the Post Office that they got the wrong mail, and sent it back.

Praying it comes back to you.
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Aw, hope the person who gets it will return it! Sometimes I get mail for the people over 1 road, and I always leave it in the box for the mail lady to pick up!

I am so sorry. I do hope and pray it gets returned. You worked so hard on it for Sara. Fingers crossed.

Have they gone there and asked for it?

We have had multiple problems with items taking a long time or not showing up. One time it was a tthe postal office for weeks another time it was an apartment address and the apartment complex apparently has a holding box or something. So the postal did deliver them a key but the people did not know what to do with it. After that was figured out they got the package.

Oh that is awful!! But, I too would be going door to door. I have wrong mail left here all the time, and while the mail man should know my name, we often have substitutes . I don't know all my neighbors anymore, so I just give the mail back to the carrier the next day. I sure hope it shows up and Sara gets her quilt, nothing can replace that.

Good Luck!
Many years ago when we first bought our house my cousin sent me 2 real nice afgans that my late aunt had made. She was dividing up her moms things to give to family members. She forgot we had moved and sent them by UPS to our old address. I went to the old house and the family told me they hadn't seen them. I had to go back 2 more times, UPS told me the box had been left there, before the people finally admitted they had them. And they were very hateful about giving them to me, it was obvious they wanted to keep them, as the box was opened and the afgans appeared to have been thrown back into it.
A lot of people think handmade things are a waste of time, but you notice if they get something like that they don't want to give it up!

If you really want to contact the people who live at that address, you could check the county real estate tax rolls for that address. In most states, if not all, it shows the name of the owner of the property. (That may or may not be helpful if it is leased.) Once you have the name, you could send a letter with the person's name on it or you may be able to find their telephone number in the online white pages. If you send the letter with their name on the envelope, they may be more likely to open it than if you just send it without a name. Also, if you know their name, they may be more likely to return or deliver the quilt to the rightful owner.

I do hope Sara's quilt makes it home to the correct address. Everyone has given you VERY helpful information as to what you can do. I'll keep my fingers crossed and keep us informed what develops.

Jeannie, there may not be a 1731- maybe it will come back to you. Please keep us posted.

If you had a tracking number on it the post office has to find the package and return it to you. You need to get in contact with your post office of the mistake in the address and tell them the correct address. The post office has to look into things like this and have the right to search the persons home for the misdelivered package. The post office is very slow when it comes to these situations. Should just go over to the neighbor and ask if the package is there. If they deny it then they have stolen the quilt. If you insured the package the post office has to pay you for the loss.

This happens all the time between me and my neighbors. Our house number is 20890 and theirs is 20980. Sometimes (on both sides of the equation) people get busy and it takes them a couple of days to redeliver the package. Eventually, it gets there. Hopefully, the same thing will happen in this case.

Does she know her neighbors? Can she approach them about this?

you can have the delivery person go back and P/U the package that was delivered to wrong address. It is too bad that that there are dishonest people that take from others. They should be ashamed fo themselves.

Ultimately it is the responsibility of the Post Office.

I had FedEx deliver a package to the wrong apartment building once. Our complex had an A and a B side, we were 1022-A, they delivered to 1022-B. Fortunately the person over there was very nice & we had no problems retreiving our motorcycle gear...

Praying this is resolved and soon.

Not in this case, since it was addressed incorrectly! They did their job! We all need to take personal responsibility and not blame others for our mistakes. Off my soap-box now...

This is what I thought, too.

Good luck.

I really hope it gets where it needs to go. I think you have some great suggestions here. Don't put too much faith in the post office to work miracles, though. One of our packages went missing once. The postal worker claimed that he had delivered it to us properly, even though he had a long history of delivering things to the wrong address. He even claimed he had a signed manifest (since the package was insured and had delivery confirmation), though he never produced it. The package was never recovered, and the post office was completely unwilling to help. I really hope this works out for you guys, and it's recovered quickly.

send a certified letter to them.

Sorry, I understood it was mis-delivered.
My bad.

I get wrong mail for people all over my neighborhood and from several blocks away and who never lived here at all.

This seems really simple to me.

You need to let PO know and see what they say.
The lady you were sending the quilt to needs to put on her 'big girl panties' go knock on their door and ask about it. She needs to take a pic of it with her. Explain the address error. If they refuse to give it back, tell them she knows they received it and that the postman delivered it to them and she is notifying the PO and filing a police report with the Police Dept. for theft of stolen goods. Also, let them know it is a federal offense to keep mail not belonging to them and she will file that too.
If they choose to give it back, all is forgotten.
If not, follow through.

Another good reason to have Delivery Confirmation with a signature (whatever it is called).

Sara should ask her neighbor about the package. In the meantime, will pray they do the right thing.

I was expecting a pkg a while back which didn't come as expected. Called UPS to track and it was delivered to my neighbor (who was not home at the time it was delivered) so UPS man put the pkg in a car parked in their driveway! They didn't use the car. But UPS told us and we went and found my pkg in the old car. God cares about what we care about. I will also pray that the quilt is found.

Okay my friends!!! Look what turned up on granddaughter's doorstep tonite??? Who cares how it got there!! I love this photo!!! Sara spotted fabric from last years birthday jacket and she said it was her favorite part of the quilt!! Thanks for all your prayers and suggestions. You're a wonderful bunch!

SEE WHAT THE POWER OF OUR UNITED WISHING AND PRAYING CAN DO!!
I know we willed that quilt to "come home" and by golly there it is.
I am so very pleased indeed.

Give God the glory! Praise the Lord!

That's wonderful!! And, it's a beautiful quilt!

YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! :D:D:D:D