Sent a bow USPS.... Priority....Fragile....Insured (luckily!) Owner received it terribly damaged...looks like 500lbs landed on the riser from the side, splitting it. Waiting for claims to respond.

Dam!

There are just no excuses for that. Sorry it had to happen to you and the owner of the bow.

Tragic! I used to love the USPS. Reliable, quick and cheap. In the past year or so it has ALL changed, drastically. So sad.

Nemah man i know what it feels like i,ve had it happen 3 times over thr years.Thank goodness it was insured!

USPS is not the best at paying claims, good luck

James

yea sent a hershal house flintlock through usps one time and insured it for 5000$. they will not pay... said improperly packaged....now i just send in a wood crate..

yea sent a hershal house flintlock through usps one time and insured it for 5000$. they will not pay... said improperly packaged....now i just send in a wood crate..

I have not had much luck lately with USPS.

Good luck collecting, USPS is poor at claims.

I don't even get the concept of USPS "insurance". We pay them to not break the things we mail? Sounds like voluntary extortion to me. If you take a jacket to get dry cleaned, do you pay extra to ensure they don't wreck it? You take your TV in for service, do you insure it? NO. They lose or damage it, THEY pay. As stated above, even with your paid "protection", the US gov. tells you "too bad", what are you going to do about it?

Good Luck with the claim. I sent a bow recently and they lost. I filed the claim and they denied it!! Luckily the bow showed up about 3 weeks later.

well file a claim with u p s sometime they are no picnic either .i received a bow from martin with the box ripped open .well after all was said and done martin replaced it because u p s said it was not packaged properly .the bow had the tip broken martin said they would make it right .

My local agent at USPS says: "Forget the insurance, they aren't going to pay anyway"

Better ship in a Schedule 40 PVC tube from now on! I've been lucky so far, nothing damaged, sent or received. But I'm hunting used pvc pipe nowadays!

that's a shame. that bow was subjected to some serious abuse to crack like that.

the post from seahorse hit it out of the park wrt to buying insurance from usps.

good luck.

I had the same thing happen about 3 months ago, except mine looked like it had been run over by a fork lift or something. It was shipped in a long square box, not a tube. It was a long drawn out process. I had to prove the value, then send copies of my check and the receipt where I paid for the bow. I had posted pics on here when it happened. Good luck with your claim. Charlie

What's the other side of the bow look like? Damage that could break a bow that way would have let a mark for sure. What about the packaging? Riser looks pretty clean on that side.

Well guys, last December I sent a bow in a pvc pipe, well packed and insured. To make a long story short, it never got there, the tracking # said it never left Phoenix just 90 miles away from where it was mailed. We opened a claim about a month later. They said we had to show what was in the package, we showed pics, they said we had to prove the value, we got a recite from the bowyer and sent a copy to them. They sent us a $26.00 check. We told them we wanted the bow back, and sent the check back to them. They said we couldn't have the bow back. We told them the bow was worth the insured value if not more. They told us, sporting goods depreciate. I told them Bull S--T. This whole process took about 4 months. Well I was sitting at my computer, looking at bows on ebay when I saw a heading that read, Robert Allen "Archer", which is what was inscribed on my bow, blew my mind to say the least, next morning my wife called the case handler and told them we found the bow. They said it can't be. We said we got pictures, don't you morons remember that? Well it turns out that they sold it at an auction. The guy that bought it put it on ebay. They said they would have to buy it back. We told them, well buy the dog gone thing back. They did. When the bow arrived home it was falling out of the box they shipped it in. Checked out that sellers other items, and it seems he makes quite a good living selling peoples undelivered mail that he buys at usps auctions. Oh buy the way he was selling a very nice Drake at the same time for $500.00, in case anyone was missing one of those. This is a true story guys. I ship bows by fed-X nowadays.

I was gifted an old Pearson,1967 model, with a cracked riser and some of the riser lams had also opened up. I filled them all with Loctite 420 until they were completely filled. Thinking I would use this old beater bow to shoot fish with. After refinishing the bow the cracks had completely disappeared. It turned out so good that the wife grabbed it up for her arsenal.

James

Pretty sad that we buy the insurance in case they break it? Scam! That's like paying your neighbors car insurance in case he runs into you. I've had a couple of bows damaged in shipping. One was in pic tube and the guy I sent it to said it looked like a truck ran it over.

It is pitiful that the usps treats its customers like they do. Everybody else does also. Customer service does not exist for the most part. I have my theory on that but it would certainly "offend" somebody who is just looking for a reason to be "offended".

Devil's advocating, what if I send a cracked bow to a friend, then claim that it was damaged in transport? Can I collect the insurance?

Patrick, likely so. I received a bow from a seller that had an issue that was certainly not handling oriented. I notified the seller and they said it was "fine" when they shipped. They filed with the P.O. and was paid within a week, and I received a refund. They even told me to keep the bow...which by the way, was a wreck anyway.

Likely also that yesterday a million packages were delivered unharmed by that same awful USPS system. The worst shipments I ever got was through FedEx so good luck with them also. I'm always suspicious of screaming and ranting since we only ever hear one side of the story. Sure, the USPS has some issues, but they also deliver more safe packages by a long shot. I'll stick to them for my mailing and receiving. Our local employees go out of their way to help you out.

I had a bow delivered with a very similar crack to this one, and a matching hinge on the box that is was delivered in. The box in my case WAS not strong enough to the handling what it had to go thru to get to me. I opened at the post office because Postmaster noticed the hinge. He said and I agreed that it should have been in a sturdier box. The odds just weren't with me on that one,on a different day it may have been delivered unharmed! The seller did replace it with another bow.

George is the voice of reason again. Living in the NW means all my shipments come and go long distances, and I've only had one issue with the USPS. I received a Harrison LB with broken tip which was insured for $600. Post Office paid in 30 days with a simple filing of the paperwork.

Pack your stuff properly and send priority insured and 999 of 1000 parcels will make it.

Do you need a "before" inspection and photographs taken at the post office?

Couldn't a buyer break a bow after it was unpacked?

Only sure thing would be to have USPS open it on the buyers end and USPS photograph it right before it was shipped.

Got to be a lot of con artists bilking everybody if it as lax as it seems.

Talk about USPS u delivered stuff. There is a large facity in Georgia I believe that sell unclaimed or lost airline luggage as well.

That's sickening, I hope they make good on the claim.

The riser is split from the arrow rest downward for about 2-3 inches, on both the front and back of the bow. The glass is also split. The shipping box, made of extra heavy duty cardboard, was broken in half at the riser area. I struggled for two days trying to complete the on-line claims form, especially the proof of value. It would not accept any documents, photos, or files I entered. Finally I requested a mail-in claims form after waiting on the phone for 20 minutes. Stayed tuned for further details........

Nemah sorry about your bow again,i hope you get your money back! I've had 2 bows destroyed and one gone from a busted PVC pipe.I did get my money back from one of thoes bows,but it took several weeks.

The Claim 13 Page Battle Is Coming. USPS will consider your claim as a fraud. But don"t give up on them.. They are super slow when it comes to paying out, Good Luck To Ya.

Please keep us updated. Be interesting to see how this goes. God Bless

That's the reason I drove 9-1/2 hours to pick up some bows two weeks ago. Seller is into vintage fishing gear, lost a lot of rods in shipping, any shipper or method- he really was against shipping those bows.

So I drove, and if it's 12 hours or fewer that's what I'll do for any bow I really want.

For a bitter laugh, google "United Breaks Guitars"- of course, that's airline travel, not pure shipping. But same mentality.

More damage photo..

Last one...Thanks to all of you for your input! It is much appreciated!

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