Postal Service since moving to Florida has been a nightmare. I'm starting to understand why many eBay vendors won't ship to Florida.

My latest experience highlights what you can expect in this place. I had two boxes of books shipped to me last week, one with fifteen and one with twenty books. These from a quality dealer that I've dealt with many times in the past. First box arrived Saturday and perfect condition--packed securely and all fifteen books individually wrapped.

Well four days later my box with twenty books arrived, but since didn't look right I opened the box then and there. The box contained five books and only one of those still had the wrapping on it. Where the other books should have been was filled in with paper, an instant noodle dinner and a pair of childrens jeans. When I had the supervisor come out she started to explain to me that I wasn't supposed to be shipping noodles and blue jeans by media mail. My wife was with me and said I could have explained a little more diplomatically that some damn postal worker had replaced my books with crap. I asked this highly paid postal genius to weigh the package and see how that compared with shipping weight and see if it may have been tampered with. Well the package weighed in at little over thirteen pounds and the shipping weight showed forty three pounds. So they gave me a number to call, but said since media they could do nothing for me. All I can say if shipping to Florida be careful.