OK, so little update. I am an idiot. My payment/letter made it to JB yesterday. He just emailed me today. He said he has seen letters take 10 plus days to make it to him, and had even had the priority packages he sent out take 10 days, despite the 2-3 day guarantee... Anyways, James bean patiently put up with a handful of stressed emails from me, returned every email in a timely fashion, and even emailed me on a Sunday afternoon to tell me he got the letter and payment yesterday evening. So anyways, I am stupid... I shouldn't have acused USPS of stealing.... They are just lazy... Lol. And JB is the man. He knew I assumed an untracked letter with cash was missing, and that I blamed USPS... And he was still honest and let me know when he received my payment. He could easily have just pocketed the cash and let me blame USPS...