Folks, a mail order store is real fun. Here's a nice example, how funny this business can be. More cases of that kind and we are closing.
And to get that clear: These are only the milestones in this story. In fact there was a lot more email and mail traffic.
31.08.2015 | We send a Gamerboard A1 to David in California. |
21.09.2015 | The package arrives. Completely destroyed. David makes a damage report at the american mail-service. |
22.09.2015 | Damage report at the austrian mail-service. They say: Compensation has to be claimed by the recipient from the american mail-service. |
22.09.2015 | We send David a new Gamerboard. it arrives some weeks later, undamaged this time. |
20.10.2015 | The american mail-service refuses David the compensation because the austrian mail-service does not send necessary info. |
21.10.2015 | We prompt the austrian mail-service to pay for the damage. After all they are our contractual partner and not the american mail service (which is only their contractual partner). |
10.12.2015 | Mail from the austrian mail-service: They will not pay, because the english(!) mail-service has confirmed that the package has been accepted by the recipient undamaged. |
14.12.2015 | We inform the austrian mail-service that they made their inquiry on the wrong continent and send them again all necessary document including a copy of David's damage claim. |
15.12.2015 | The austrian mail-service promises to check that again. |
06.01.2016 | No message from the austrian mail-service. Repeated request to the austrian mail-service to pay for the damage. This time we threaten to file a lawsuit. |
07.01.2016 | The austrian mail-service refuses any compensation because the american mail-service now says that the package has been insufficiently packed. |
08.01.2016 | We tell the mail-service that we do not intend to send packages in steel-safes. Our lawyer suggests to make an appeal to the Postschlichtungsstelle (mail-arbitration-board?) bevor we file a lawsuit. This we do and get promptly the answer that they will attend to it. |
12.01.2016 | Mail from the Postschlichtungsstelle: the austrian mail-service pays, "as a gesture of goodwill" they say. |
17.01.2016 | After 4 months and 100s of mails and letters: The money arrives on our bank account. |