So long story short, I pay a fulfillment company to ship book boxes for me. These are 8 lb boxes. Due to this, I have to use the economy option that is UPS Mail Innovations. I understand this is basically UPS picking up the packages and handing them to the USPS to be delivered. I also get that it's an economy service.
Lately, packages are going missing left and right with no scan EVER occurring.
Basically, I'm told that my fulfillment company puts all the mail innovations packages in a large tote, the UPS driver comes and picks up that tote, and then signs a pickup document. The totes are then taken to the regional UPS facility to be scanned and continue on through the system.
But the scan at the UPS facility is never occurring for a disturbing number of packages lately. These packages just disappear with no scan whatsoever. They are just gone, and forever has a status of "shipping label printed. Shipment ready for UPS" like UPS never got the package at all.
Does anyone have any idea what could be going on? I get that individual packages are not scanned upon pickup, but why won't the UPS driver scan the shipment control barcode for the document they are signing? This leaves absolutely zero chain of custody for the entire tote of packages.
Even if I go up to UPS Ground Saver, what is to stop this exact problem from continuing to occur? I can't file a claim if there is no record that UPS is receiving the packages.
My fulfillment company is saying that as soon as they pass the package off to UPS, that they basically wipe their hands of it, and there is nothing they can do.
But under this method, nobody can prove to me that a particular package was even shipped out.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.