I sent a pretty sizable certified check to Colorado for a vintage .22 target tool. As always I took a photo of the check, the package and the receipt with the tracking number and sent it to the seller. It sat in IL for almost two weeks before I put a stop on the check, got a replacement check and sent it next day air Fed Ex, cost me over $60 extra. The seller sent me a message saying both checks arrived and that he’d put the original in the box with my purchase. When I picked up my package the original check and envelope were in a clear envelope. The original had fork truck tracks on it and almost a third of the envelope had been torn off. When I opened it most of the account and routing numbers were torn off the check. So I take it to my local PO and the post master looked at it and said “I don’t see anything wrong with it”. My reply was, how could they cash it without all the account information? She refunded my original postage, about $15 and that was it, no apology, nothing. I have several similar experiences with our inept postal service.