[meteorite-list] Unbelievably late package - is UPS better?

[E.P. Grondine]

Hi all - 

I am greatly enjoying everyone's tales of woe with
government mail services - sharing the burden of a
frustration does make it lighter - sometimes there
really is nothing one can do but laugh.

But I am wondering, is UPS better?

good hunting, 
Ed


--- Martin Horejsi <accretiondesk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Walter,
> 
> Not this Martin. But I seem to remember the tale as
> well.
> 
> I hope I won't have a story to add here, but I might
> have one in the
> works. I mailed a meteorite to San Diego about a
> month ago and, you
> guessed it, we're still waiting.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/18/06, Walter Branch <waltbranch at bellsouth.net>
> wrote:
> > Hi Bernd,
> > >(sometimes it is good
> > >people do not know much about meteorites
> >
> > You are right.  This is how I judge whether to
> dismiss these stories that
> > make it to the list.  Sort of like Hollywood vs.
> reality.
> >
> > Who was it that had their apartment broken into
> and items where stolen,
> > except the meteorites?  Was it you, Martin?
> >
> > -Walter Branch
> >
> >
> >
>
-----------------------------------------------------
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
> > To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> > Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 1:57 PM
> > Subject: [meteorite-list] Unbelievably late
> package - my story
> >
> >
> > > On Wednesday, October 01, 2003, Mike Farmer sent
> out my NWA 1909 (AEUC)
> > > and my NWA 1943 (AHOW) specimens. The package
> did make it safely across
> > > the Big Pond but on October 21, 2003, I wrote to
> Mike that the German
> > customs
> > > authorities were withholding the specimens and I
> was battling with them
> > over my
> > > comment that there was no commercial value
> involved and their idiotic
> > response
> > > that everything had a value.
> > >
> > > By November 10, 2003, the package had got lost
> somewhere between Tucson
> > and
> > > my home town here in Germany after the customs
> idiots had agreed they
> > would
> > > send it to us via mail. It never arrived. Lots
> of telephone calls but to
> > no avail
> > > although I had the photo copy from the customs
> dudes with all the details
> > (sender,
> > > contents, etc.). More calls and the information
> that the package was
> > probably on
> > > its way back to Tucson. The customs dudes said
> that if it didn't show up
> > here or
> > > in Tucson sooner or later, the sender would have
> to start a "tracer".
> > >
> > > Wednesday, December 17, 2003, Mike wrote that
> the meteorites had just
> > arrived back to
> > > him and that the customs idiot had removed the
> packaging so that the
> > meteorites (worth
> > > $600!) were loose in the box which was smashed -
> fortunately the
> > meteorites were fine,
> > > not damaged.
> > >
> > > The customs people were not the culprits this
> time. That honor goes to the
> > German mail
> > > company. There must have been a potential thief
> who opened Christmas mail
> > that looked
> > > promising (precious metals, jewelry, money,
> etc.). Meteorites were just
> > worthless and
> > > meaningless stuff so he chucked them back into
> the torn package (sometimes
> > it is good
> > > people do not know much about meteorites :-)
> > >
> > > My meteorites were shipped again, and,
> unbelievable but nonetheless true:
> > Tuesday, Dec.
> > > 30, 2003, NWA 1909 and NWA 1943 finally arrived
> (again) after this
> > transaltantic odyssey
> > > which lasted "only" three months!
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Bernd
> > >
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