[meteorite-list] Question about lost shipment and what to do.

[Linton Rohr]

Greetings Mike and Listoids,
I shipped a premium eyepiece to a buyer on the east coast last year (South 
Carolina?) and he wrote that he had not received it a week later. USPS 
Delivery Confirmation showed that it had been delivered. When the postmaster 
called to inquire WHERE they had delivered it, they discovered it had gotten 
mixed in with the enormous load of daily returns that go to the (nearby) QVC 
shopping network! In QVC's own zip code! We had to wait for QVC to process 
through the bins full of returns, but they found the package and returned it 
to the post office, who got a second chance to deliver, in which they were 
successful. Priority Mail, indeed. The whole thing took about a month, but 
all's well that ends well I guess.
I had feared having to refund the purchase price, but I imagine there's a 
similar "happy ending" awaiting you.
Linton


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "R N Hartman" <rhartman04 at earthlink.net>
To: "Gary Fujihara" <fujmon at mac.com>; "Mike Miller" 
<meteoritefinder at gmail.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Question about lost shipment and what to do.


> Example:   Once I purchased a pricy slice of NWA 482 and asked Mike Farmer 
> to send it overnight express, and two weeks later it had not arrived.  I 
> just happened to be at the postoffice talking to the manager in the back 
> where stuff comes in when a bag of parcel post packages arrived.  Right on 
> top was my "express" package!   So there is hope!  Often I find when a 
> package fails to arrive on time it is misdirected to a wrong zipcode 
> thousands of miles away, but it eventually gets delivered, usually after a 
> delay of a couple of weeks.
>
> Ron
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gary Fujihara" <fujmon at mac.com>
> To: "Mike Miller" <meteoritefinder at gmail.com>
> Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 9:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Question about lost shipment and what to do.
>
>
>> Aloha Mike,
>>
>> Sorry to hear about your package going AWOL, but as everyone has already 
>> mentioned, there is hope that it will eventually arrive at its 
>> destination.
>>
>> FWIW, despite everyone's grim perspective of the USPS, I have found their 
>> service to be exemplary, especially when compared to UPS who gouge us in 
>> Hawaii and lose or damage packages on a seemingly regular basis.  Gotta 
>> also remember that its the busiest season of the year for the post 
>> office, who are operating under a constrained budget with less staffing 
>> than in years past.  Good luck getting your package to its destination 
>> Mike!
>>
>> gary
>>
>> On Dec 21, 2010, at 6:18 AM, Mike Miller wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all, I shipped a priority flat rate box on Dec 6th and it was
>>> scanned and left the Las Vegas sort facility on the same evening. Now
>>> ever since it has just said it was in transit to its destination. I
>>> did use a signature confirmation. The bad news is it is a meteorite
>>> that I sold for several thousand dollars.......I know but it is too
>>> late to register and insure the package. I am hoping there is some one
>>> who investigates something like this because I don't think the item
>>> was lost it was in a flat rate box, hard to miss that lying on the
>>> floor. So if it is gone then I am guessing someone has stolen it.
>>> Input would be helpful....and I guess the moral of the story  is
>>> shipped expensive items insured and registered, they can go missig
>>> even from state to state.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Mike Miller 3835 E Nicole Ave Kingman Az 86409
>>> www.meteoritefinder.com
>>>      928-757-1378
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>> Gary Fujihara
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>> 105 Puhili Place, Hilo, Hawai'i 96720
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>> http://shop.ebay.com/fujmon/m.html
>> (808) 640-9161
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