My daughter shipped an item USPS but used one of the remote locations in a local grocery store. She insured it, got the tracking number, etc. Somehow the package "disappeared" before the post office picked it up (we assume), so the tracking number never got into the USPS system. Post office wouldn't honor the insurance because the tracking number wasn't valid. She did manage to buffalo the store manager into paying the insurance amount. Moral: if you're using USPS, do it at the post office. Buzz, didn't mean to hijack your thread; hope those barrels show up.
