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

[Mike Miller]

Hello everyone it has arrived!  The package arrived today without the
signature confirmation or the postage intact. The only sticker still
hanging on was the customers address and he was forced to pay the
postage in order to have the package. I wonder how a package got half
way across the country unless at some point it had the postage sticker
on it. Well anyway it has a happy ending. Thanks to all for your
stories and help.


On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Linton Rohr <lintonius at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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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Mike Miller 3835 E Nicole Ave Kingman Az 86409
www.meteoritefinder.com
     928-757-1378