Adventures in shipping coins...
ursabear
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Folks,
The day I left for vacation, I receved payment for one of my Kennedys. Although we were getting in the car, I figured that I'd pack it up and send it out while we were on vacation - and make an adventure of it. I dropped the buyer an email to let him know to look for it... I stopped packing, carefully packaged up the coin, filled out the insurance paperwork and placed the package carefully in my wife's pocketbook.
Tuesday (after Columbus day) we were out cruising around in the New York state countryside and saw a wonderful town called Akron (near Buffalo). Their post office was one of those older types that look like something you would expect in a rural town, but with a stately brick and marble facade. We decided that we'd mail the coin there because it looked so neat. There was no one in line, and we dropped it off without delay. The clerk was friendly and nice.
The buyer got his coin within two days (to Idaho!) in great shape.
It was a wonderful adventure in a neat town.
The day I left for vacation, I receved payment for one of my Kennedys. Although we were getting in the car, I figured that I'd pack it up and send it out while we were on vacation - and make an adventure of it. I dropped the buyer an email to let him know to look for it... I stopped packing, carefully packaged up the coin, filled out the insurance paperwork and placed the package carefully in my wife's pocketbook.
Tuesday (after Columbus day) we were out cruising around in the New York state countryside and saw a wonderful town called Akron (near Buffalo). Their post office was one of those older types that look like something you would expect in a rural town, but with a stately brick and marble facade. We decided that we'd mail the coin there because it looked so neat. There was no one in line, and we dropped it off without delay. The clerk was friendly and nice.
The buyer got his coin within two days (to Idaho!) in great shape.
It was a wonderful adventure in a neat town.
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Last Sat morn I wake up @ 11;45 and it's oh wow I got 15 minutes to get to the PO to mail a coin return and some checks that I been putting off all week. My head feels like it's a beating drum and my stomach has wildcats running around in it. I'm still wearing the shorts I worked in all day Fri and partied in all night. I had been building a house for a suit, he's the DA so I was wearing the most rotten cuttoffs I had, the ripped up ones with my butt hanging out so he wouldn't give me any problems and threw on my flipflops, didn't brush my hair or wear my hat. Looked like a wild idiot. Grabbed a cup of coffee & hauled butt.
Got to the PO @ 11:50 and left my truck running with ac on full blast cause it was hot. There was an eBay dealer in front of us in line mailing about 500 different packages and he was filling out delivery confirmations for each one. I made some small talk with this guy I knew in line in front of me then @ 11:55 loudly announced lady you need to get some help. She says Randy do you need to pick up something or buy some stamps? (meaning if I had some registered to pick up she would have got it for me right then or sent me to the store part to get my stamps) I say no I aint got nothing better to do on Sat morn so I go stand in line @ the PO and drink coffee @ talk to people.
@ 12:00 I loudly announce that I'm out of coffee and fixing to get grumpy.
The 25 people waiting in line are ROFLMAO about now.
@ 12:05 she calls a guy out of the back to go stand @ the end of the line and keep anymore people from getting in line. I loudly announce that she should put him working the other unmanned station because I done drank all my coffee and was now full blown grumpy and just wanted to get out of there.
Another lady comes from the back and goes to the closed stamp store and my clerk send me and the rest of the line over to her and I mail my insured letter @ buy 3 stamps.
@ 12:20 I get back in my truck which has burned about 5 gallons of expensive diesel by now. The eBay dealer was still in there. heehe
<< <i>he's the DA so I was wearing the most rotten cuttoffs I had, the ripped up ones with my butt hanging out so he wouldn't give me any problems >>
Bwuahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Russ, NCNE
At my post office there's a poster in the lobby with a picture of a gun on it. We're all too scared to complain.
Russ, NCNE