[meteorite-list] Lost/Stolen meteorites

[Gary K. Foote]

I have had two small meteorite mailings disappear in the last few months.  Both were sent 
via the USPS.  One was a purchase and the seller was kind enough to offer a refund.  I 
offered to split the loss and it was done.  The other was a gift that never arrived.  Not 
sure if it really got sent tho...

I can understand someone ID-ing a large shipment like you lost as valuable, but why would 
someone, or how would someone know a small package contained a chondrite?  Maybe the USPS 
is simply falling apart.  Either that or someone is running an x-ray machine for them and 
using it for their own gains.

I hope you find your missing shipment.  What you have 'lost' is a huge investment - at 
least to me it would be.

Good luck!

Gary

On 8 Dec 2006 at 20:04, Michael Farmer wrote:

> I need to report that a shipment from the Munich show
> has been lost/stolen. 
> Jim Strope and I shipped via UPS Supply Chain
> Solutions a large Muonionalusta weighing 174 kilograms
> and a large Gibeon, highly sculptured, weighing 36
> kilograms. It also contained some kilos of chondrites.
> The shipment has been lost for a month. It seems to
> have made it to Los Angeles via United Airlines, and
> simply disappeared after that. We are told that it is
> likely simply buried in the United Airlines bonded
> cargo warehouse and may be found soon, but on the off
> chance that this shipment was stolen, we must make
> public the weights of the meteorites.
> If anyone has been offered any meteorites of these
> weights, please notify myself of Jim Strope as I will
> be in Japan until Dec 19th. It seems that shipments of
> this type have been stolen before. Let this be a
> warning to anyone shipping material like this. It CAN
> BE LOST/STOLEN even when weighing over 500 pounds!
> INSURE YOUR SHIPMENTS.
> 
> Michael Farmer
> 
> 
> 
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