Shipping horror stories?

ddink

It's a problem when the UPS guy leaves a $700 PCGS slabbed coin in one of those overnight letter envelopes UNDERNEATH THE DOORMAT, without bothering to put a note on the door. Fortunately I got lucky before I stepped on it.

airplanenut

<< <i>It's a problem when the UPS guy leaves a $700 PCGS slabbed coin in one of those overnight letter envelopes UNDERNEATH THE DOORMAT, without bothering to put a note on the door. Fortunately I got lucky before I stepped on it. >>

Crackout PAR-TAY!

ddink

Anyone else have stories?

nankraut

About 15 yr ago: UPS leaves a box with 10-100oz Engelhard bars outside the front door overnight. Of course, it was about 75lb. so it would have been rather hard to swipe.

ElectricEye

The horror part of the story was attributed to the Fedex delivery driver. I was standing at a window at the local USPS office and received a call from a Fedex driver who told me he was standing in front of my door and wanted to know what to do with the package as no one was answering the door. I asked him to throw it over the fence and that I would return in a few minutes to collect it. There was silence for a few seconds and he asked if it was okay to do such a thing. It was then that I remembered why he was a little reluctant to toss it into the backyard. The package had a placard, "Explosives 1.4d". I assured him it would not cause him any discomfort should the box have a hard landing. I then had to explain to the postal clerk at my window that the conversation I just had on my cell was about an innocuous box of 26.5mm flares and to quit looking at me that way.

K6AZ

Who is the maroon shipping a coin of that value via UPS?

EvilMCT

My local post office caught on fire. I ended up losing a couple of different minor things (nothing coin related). But, it caused me to get my one and only negative with ebay. Seller refused to believe me when I explained why he hadn't received my payment. About 2 days after he posted the negative, he sent me an email stating he had received my check in a plastic bag explaining what happened. In his email, he pointed out that he would ship it via FedEx at no extra charge.

Ken

Conder101

Well on at least two occasions I have had numismatic books, insured for several hundred dollars, that I had purchased through literature auctions, left just sitting in the yard, in a puddle, in the rain, for three days or more before I discovered them. (I have a mail box on a vacant lot that I use for a mail drop for correspondence. I have all packages shipped to a business address. I only pick up my correspondence mail once a week. The books were shipped to the vacent lot in error and the mailman just left them sitting there in the open in the rain. It's a vacant lot so there is no one there who can sign for anything, but he left these high value insured packages there anyway. Without getting a signature.) Fortunately they wrapped those books VERY well and even though the package was completely soaked through, the books were still dry.

Boom

No "Shipping" horror stories but I could start now and write till dawn on "receiving" nightmares

and the gross incompetence of the USPS!

K6AZ

Boom, still no sign of that registered package?

1040taxman

Within the past year or so I purchased a coin from Bowers and Merena.They sent it registered mail as usual.I opened my apartment door one Saturday morning only to find the package on the floor.I went to the post office later on to show them what had happened.They said that the mailman "lost it" earlier that day.If you lose registered mail you might as well not go back to work,according to my bother in law who also works for the USPS.Anyway they were grateful that I came over to clear up the matter.Needless to say,my regular mail carrier has been overly cautious since then.

longtimecollector

how 'bout 38 days to send a registered package from Indiana to Colorado??????

RNCHSN

I sent a $400 package of silver coins to a dealer in NY state. The package shipped insured parcel post because the buyer didn't specify that he had any special delivery requirements, and I forwarded him the insurance card #s.

When the package didn't arrive in 3 days, he filed a complaint with Paypal and had his payment pulled from my account, without trying to contact me at all.

When I called him about this, he as much as called me a liar, and that if the package arrived, the payment would be reinstated. "it's just a click of a button!" was his statement.

It took 8 days for that package to get from CT. to upstate NY!

Needless to say, I won't do business with him again!

BigD5

Ron,

I think I would have lost my mind on a dealer like that.....3 days??? No need for that bologna.

Fortunately, I haven't run into any real crazy shipping scenarios. A few lost packages, here and there, but nothing crazy.


There was the Ebay buyer who claimed a postal worker cracked out there 1909-s 1c from the ANACS slab and replaced it with a lower graded example......what a doozy that one is/was.