Originally Posted by Vintage Schwinn

Do you have a riding pal that is an attorney?........or a relative or in-law or perhaps next door neighbor that is an attorney?

The reason that I mention that it seems to me that due to the fact that the young lady at the UPS Store, skipped the scanning process for whatever reason, and then told you that she would enter the numbers manually......and then gave you a the proof of payment/shipping receipt-tracking receipt WITH THE WRONG TRACKING NUMBER!
***Check with an attorney pal of yours, as they the UPS store has a burden to complete what would legally considered a "contract" with you the (customer) having some legal protection, as you paid fully in good faith with full expectations that ordinary expected(normal) receipt and tracking code would be provided to you at that time.
THE FACT THAT THE YOUNG LADY(clerk) DEVIATED FROM NORMAL PROTOCOL PROCEEDURE, WOULD SEEM TO OPEN THE DOOR TO FORCE THE UPS STORE TO PROVIDE RESTITUTION!
Basically, and I don't want this to sound harsh, but you've got to go after the independent UPS Store proprietor with immediate pressure from your attorney pal. It is just business proceedure! When you make it so that they (UPS store owner/proprietor) has to spend his/her time responding and incurring legal costs from his/her own attorney for consultation etc on this matter, YOU GET THE ATTENTION OF SAID BUSINESS OWNER(in this case, the UPS Store proprietor).
The store probably has recorded video, and either way if your attorney were to bring that up, as to have the store show that they (the store) did not screw up with respect to the young lady (clerk) deviating from normal proceedure. The store owner will probably have one of three possible responses: (a) we don't record video (b)its already erased as it deletes older material (c) our recording cameras haven't been broken for a long time.
Either way, the fact that they cannot provide undisputed visual evidence that your account of the matter is wrong and has no merit, will very much build your "pressure-squeeze" of the proprietor. Yes, it essentially where your attorney pal, attempts to stress out the store's proprietor. It is completely legal and it goes on thousands of times a day as nobody said attorneys were the greatest role models. The UPS Store proprietor likely will want to do what is necessary to alleviate this pressure, and thus will likely wake up to trying to help you possibly locate your missing bike and resolve this issue. They won't give a damn otherwise, but make it known (legally) to UPS corporate and the chairman/CEO, that UPS Store xyz , doing business as "--------------", owned by "-----------", and perhaps then maybe you'll get their attention.
It isn't a good thing for such a business to have serious complaints with customer documentation that seem to substantiate those allegations. Potentially seriously unhappy customers aren't a great thing for a business like that, or any business.


Perhaps there was no nefarious mischief at all from the young clerk as that would probably require them to be smart and that is highly doubtful given that they toil in a very low paying job with little opportunity for advancement. It just does not seem that they are likely to be criminally brilliant, but more likely, just an ordinary, honest, good natured person but just so dumb or uncaring in her job, that things got messed up with no malice at all.
Still, the UPS Store did seem to screw up and fumble the ball, giving you perhaps an opening..