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I have NEVER, and will NEVER send anything that somebody has paid me money for, without delivery confirmation. $.70 to be able to PROVE that they got the item, is worth it.
Delivery confirmation from USPS doesn't mean much. It does NOT guarantee it was put into the hand of the recipient or someone living at that address.
All it means is that it went through the postal system and was delivered to a mailbox.
It might not even be the right mailbox (we get other peoples mail all the time in our box and others get our mail...this happens several times a year) If they do put it in the right mailbox, if that mailbox is not locked, then anyone can steal it from the box, just look at all the meth heads raiding unsecured mailboxs.
If you want to make sure it gets there, you need signature confirmation (about $2) and someone will have to sign for that package or letter.
This said, DLMB needs to give it more time to arrive, I've had priority mail packages get lost in the system for months and I bet with a 1st class letter that isn't tracked, it happens even more often.
Without proof of delivery, there is really nothing to dispute unless Trevor has a history of this same thing happening to other transactions of his, he needs to be given the benefit of the doubt that it never got to him, without tracking and a signature confirmation a many different things could have happened to the letter, it could just be slow getting there, it could have been mis-delivered, or someone could have gotten into his mailbox before he did.
Right now I've got a package from a customer that is lost in limbo. The customer sent his pointer to me back in December for cleaning and it still has not arrived after almost 5 months and without any tracking, there is not even any proof that it was shipped, but I do believe him as this kind of thing has happened in the past.
I know it's drag, but at this point all that can be done is wait and see if the letter gets to Trevor.
The postal system is far from perfect. I doubt someone from the USPS stole the letter as most are honest and those that are not tend to go after packages that look like they have something of value in them.
The USPS handles millions if not hundreds of millions of letters and packages each day and with their automated handling and sorting, some letters will get mis-routed or mis-delivered and some will fall off the sorting machines and get lost for a time and others still may get jammed or shredded in the sorting machines and never get to their destination.
I hope this helps and with some luck your payment to Trevor will arrive soon.