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  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,774 ✭✭✭✭✭
    So.......if this coin is available all year, and they are lagging behind on making them. an order placed in december, and not filled until next february, will be filled with a 2009 coin stuck in 2010. But yet, thats illegal. so at some point they will catch up.

    see the line or reasoning here...? at some point this will be a no waiting sale.

    not that matters a hill of beans anyway
  • GATGAT Posts: 3,146
    However Pitney Bowes got the contract is beyond me. For you that don't know Pitney Bowes primary business is manufacturing office mail room equipment such as meter postage machines, meters, scales, folders, inserters etc. If I posted what I really think of PB's they would sue me. I competed against them for many years during my work life, retired now.
    USAF vet 1951-59


  • << <i>I cancelled Mine.. I spent my $1,200 for a doublewide in Plains Indy and stocking up on fire arms. >>



    Okay, then: let's make it torches, pitchforks... and SHOTGUNS.

    Seriously, though, between the bailouts for business that screwed up, and bailouts for people who bought way too much house - and all at the expense of those who DIDN'T screw up or buy too much anything - and now this Mint mess, the United States is becoming Land of Let's Screw People Who Follow The Rules.
  • trozautrozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
    To all that have gotten their UHRs or have gotten their shipping notices: You lucky dawgs!

    I'm speculating that the delivery order will be as they are and have been: Luck of the draw for all orders between Jan 22 and Feb 23 (most likely to the current order, though).

    I have no choice but to wait patiently until my order gets drawn (hopefully within the promised 9 months - dang, thats like the time my wife got pregnant then waiting for the baby).
    trozau (troy ounce gold)
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,118 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>To all that have gotten their UHRs or have gotten their shipping notices: You lucky dawgs!

    I'm speculating that the delivery order will be as they are and have been: Luck of the draw for all orders between Jan 22 and Feb 23 (most likely to the current order, though).

    I have no choice but to wait patiently until my order gets drawn (hopefully within the promised 9 months - dang, thats like the time my wife got pregnant then waiting for the baby). >>



    You hit the "nail on the head" with your Luck of the Draw statement. My brother in law ordered his UHR on 1/23 ... 2PM, received his today..
    It's obvious, the UHR, is not being mailed out on a first come first serve basis.
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."


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    << <i>To all that have gotten their UHRs or have gotten their shipping notices: You lucky dawgs!

    I'm speculating that the delivery order will be as they are and have been: Luck of the draw for all orders between Jan 22 and Feb 23 (most likely to the current order, though).

    I have no choice but to wait patiently until my order gets drawn (hopefully within the promised 9 months - dang, thats like the time my wife got pregnant then waiting for the baby). >>



    You hit the "nail on the head" with your Luck of the Draw statement. My brother in law ordered his UHR on 1/23 ... 2PM, received his today..
    It's obvious, the UHR, is not being mailed out on a first come first serve basis. >>




    HAS ANYONE WHO ORDERED IN THE FIRST HOUR RECEIVED THEIR COIN?


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    << <i>To all that have gotten their UHRs or have gotten their shipping notices: You lucky dawgs!

    I'm speculating that the delivery order will be as they are and have been: Luck of the draw for all orders between Jan 22 and Feb 23 (most likely to the current order, though).

    I have no choice but to wait patiently until my order gets drawn (hopefully within the promised 9 months - dang, thats like the time my wife got pregnant then waiting for the baby). >>



    You hit the "nail on the head" with your Luck of the Draw statement. My brother in law ordered his UHR on 1/23 ... 2PM, received his today..
    It's obvious, the UHR, is not being mailed out on a first come first serve basis. >>




    HAS ANYONE WHO ORDERED IN THE FIRST HOUR RECEIVED THEIR COIN? >>







    NO
    Fishing is not a matter of life and death.......It's much more important than that........
  • GATGAT Posts: 3,146
    Everyone is missing the point, Pitney Bowes has no experience or business being a fulfillment center. Who pulled the strings?image
    USAF vet 1951-59
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 32,970 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    mint in dc called about lost package... can't read signature but still claims no person works there by that name... delivery city not in web site and they question if it was really delivered or not... "suspicious"


    "file a claim"



    gave PBGS type excuses for fifo:
    "varying holds" -> hours laters orders may have had shorter hold time... but it is 1 per so why would all these people be passed over due to a "hold"
    "researching 1 per household" -> wouldn't that apply to all orders?

    "uhhh... I'm not really working on that issue, I'm just offering what could be happening"


    edit: FedEx has a bit more info in their system than on the web site... not only does it show the address of delivery... the driver added "US Mint" image

    so... I got that faxed from FedEx and faxed to the mint person's office who called me... we'll see if they credit me.
    Current maintainer of Stone's Master List of Favorite Websites // My BST transactions


  • << <i>wow 1738 replies and counting .. this is an amazing thread for longevity. >>



    It's impossible to underestimate the Mint's ability to pi$$ off the masses... image
    UHR Ordered on 1/22/09 @ 12:08PM
    Status: Received image ... sent to grading
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 32,970 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mint's next first spouse release is going to be he11


    Current maintainer of Stone's Master List of Favorite Websites // My BST transactions
  • UHR 30828XXX

    NOTHING
  • mbogomanmbogoman Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This sucks so bad it's beyond comprehension. What I am afraid of is that those of us who put up with the website fu&*-ups in the first few hours of ordering will not get ours from the first batch of 29,000 minted. We are trapped in a black hole of no return. They won't get to ours until they have plowed through all those orders after ours. We know that there have been around 49,000+ orders to date and 29,000 or so minted. With the LIFO method that PBGS is using, it looks like the first 20,000 orders will be SOL and have to wait until April or May or whenever the mint can come up with enough slugs to mint more. This really sucks big-time.
  • i ordered mine on 1/23....it will be delivered today
  • Ditto...just got an email confirmation that mine shipped today.
  • smokincoinsmokincoin Posts: 2,636 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I cancelled Mine.. I spent my $1,200 for a doublewide in Plains Indy and stocking up on fire arms.image >>


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  • Official Pitney Bowes Shipping Policy:

    LIFO: last in first out


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  • PlacidPlacid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭


    << <i>This sucks so bad it's beyond comprehension. What I am afraid of is that those of us who put up with the website fu&*-ups in the first few hours of ordering will not get ours from the first batch of 29,000 minted. We are trapped in a black hole of no return. They won't get to ours until they have plowed through all those orders after ours. We know that there have been around 49,000+ orders to date and 29,000 or so minted. With the LIFO method that PBGS is using, it looks like the first 20,000 orders will be SOL and have to wait until April or May or whenever the mint can come up with enough slugs to mint more. This really sucks big-time. >>



    Maybe the early orders were boxed and are sitting in a locked cage with coins already in them.
  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 13,961 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>This sucks so bad it's beyond comprehension. What I am afraid of is that those of us who put up with the website fu&*-ups in the first few hours of ordering will not get ours from the first batch of 29,000 minted. We are trapped in a black hole of no return. They won't get to ours until they have plowed through all those orders after ours. We know that there have been around 49,000+ orders to date and 29,000 or so minted. With the LIFO method that PBGS is using, it looks like the first 20,000 orders will be SOL and have to wait until April or May or whenever the mint can come up with enough slugs to mint more. This really sucks big-time. >>



    Maybe the early orders were boxed and are sitting in a locked cage with coins already in them. >>

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  • 53BKid53BKid Posts: 2,174 ✭✭✭


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    Okay, then: let's make it torches, pitchforks... and SHOTGUNS... Seriously, though, between the bailouts for business that screwed up, and bailouts for people who bought way too much house - and all at the expense of those who DIDN'T screw up or buy too much anything - and now this Mint mess, the United States is becoming Land of Let's Screw People Who Follow The Rules. >>



    That is exactly the problem. People dealing with the U.S. Mint have the expectation of high quality customer service. They follow the rules, and spend a considerable amount of money and premiums with the expectations that their transactions will be handled in a highly professional manner. Unfortunately, the mint again and again proves themselves incapable of even coming close to meeting those expectations.

    In fact, not only with the UHR release but the 20th AGE/ASEs handle customers with disregard, offering virtually nothing but half-hearted apologies. Not only are supposed, "Customer Care Representatives" incapable of offering information, but their supervisors are unable to offer anything of substance as well.

    Well here's something for those of you who want to express your complaints about this: Ask to speak with the Mint's Office of Public Affairs, Mr. Michael White who is in Washington.

    HAPPY COLLECTING!!!
  • mbogomanmbogoman Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭✭✭
    <<Maybe the early orders were boxed and are sitting in a locked cage with coins already in them. >>

    I don't think this is the case, chiefly because of the book problem. If they were already boxed up and ready, they would be out the door. But we are reasonably sure that the reason for the delay was that the books were defective. People now are receiving UHRs both with and without the book. The only constant is that nobody here that managed to get their order in during the first couple of hours has received anything.
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 32,970 ✭✭✭✭✭
    until there is definitive proof with full order numbers and full tracking numbers....

    then none of this is happening as far as anyone can prove.


    Current maintainer of Stone's Master List of Favorite Websites // My BST transactions
  • UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,346 ✭✭✭✭✭
    For what it's worth I ordered mine about midnight EST (12 hours past the start time) Order #: 308647XX.

    Got the confirmation last night that it has been shipped.

    I used to be somebody, now I'm just a coin collector.
    Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
  • DeepCoinDeepCoin Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭
    Dont forget the distance from Indianapolis compared to where you live. Shipping is also related to how good your local delivery people are, no matter the delivery system used. I suspect most everyone will have their coins by this time next week, including people who bought well after the first couple of days.
    Retired United States Mint guy, now working on an Everyman Type Set.
  • Well I just picked mine up off my front porch where it was left by UPS. Had to leave work, lucky I only live a few miles away. Still can't believe they are leaving $1200 gold coins unattended! It's a heavy white square box. Order #3087XXXX, ordered 1-23 around noon.
  • mbogomanmbogoman Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Distance from Indy has nothing to do with the date shipped. I don't care how long it takes to get here. I do care about when it ships.
  • phehpheh Posts: 1,588


    << <i>Dont forget the distance from Indianapolis compared to where you live. Shipping is also related to how good your local delivery people are, no matter the delivery system used. I suspect most everyone will have their coins by this time next week, including people who bought well after the first couple of days. >>



    Just no the few of us that managed to order in the first half hour.
  • Another funny thing. I have a subscription for American Presidential coins. I made this subscription probably day one it came out. My father does NOT have one and placed his order the second day they went on sale. He has his in hand already and I just received an email yesterday stating I'll receive mine in two to four weeks. I mean what is the point of having a subscription to these and receiving them after someone placing an order after they go on sale. Complete and utter incompetence going on at the mint.
  • One thought I had was: perhaps the planned, original packaging was dependent on BOTH the coin and book being included. Once they realized the book was a NO GO, they halted shipment because of the prearranged packaging that, without the book, was also useless until new books were printed. They hurriedly had to arrange new boxing for the coin alone, now we're seeing the results. That result being these unsealed, white boxes like Sumorada's buddy received and another person also mentioned. I still would like to know why/if PCGS is really accepting unsealed boxes for FS designation. What a joke.


    btw, did we ever find out if the white boxes are arriving with signature required?

  • veryfineveryfine Posts: 1,763 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I still would like to know why/if PCGS is really accepting unsealed boxes for FS designation. What a joke. >>


    If the coins arrive by the PCGS first strike deadline, why would it matter if they are unsealed?


  • << <i>One thought I had was: perhaps the planned, original packaging was dependent on BOTH the coin and book being included. Once they realized the book was a NO GO, they halted shipment because of the prearranged packaging that, without the book, was also useless until new books were printed. They hurriedly had to arrange new boxing for the coin alone, now we're seeing the results. That result being these unsealed, white boxes like Sumorada's buddy received and another person also mentioned. I still would like to know why/if PCGS is really accepting unsealed boxes for FS designation. What a joke. >>



    Why do you consider it a joke ???
    The policy has always been that if post marked to PCGS by the cut off date , the coin can be sent in a flip ,
    or capsule . The coin only needs to be shipped in the original mint box , still sealed if post marked after the
    cut off date ( be it 1 day or 1 year ) .



    Dan
    Fishing is not a matter of life and death.......It's much more important than that........
  • relicsncoinsrelicsncoins Posts: 7,905 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>For what it's worth I ordered mine about midnight EST (12 hours past the start time) Order #: 308647XX.

    Got the confirmation last night that it has been shipped. >>



    Yours was about 10,000 orders after mine. I ordered around 4 or 5 Mountain time on 1/22.
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  • edgaredgar Posts: 886 ✭✭✭✭
    deleted sorry

    (l8-)>>

  • "If the coins arrive by the PCGS first strike deadline, why would it matter if they are unsealed?"


    evidently you haven't saved orders in their OGP for future sales (and hopeful FS desig.)...

    they've got to be sealed, SUPPOSEDLY.

  • Does anyone have the contact names and phone numbers of some people actually at the us mint offices in washington?
    Not the yahoo's that answer the usmint catalog 800 number...
    I recall a couple years ago that they were listed here and I was trying to find but have been unable.
    To get to the bottom of anything we have to call them, only they would have the power to change shipping order.
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 32,970 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Does anyone have the contact names and phone numbers of some people actually at the us mint offices in washington?
    Not the yahoo's that answer the usmint catalog 800 number...
    I recall a couple years ago that they were listed here and I was trying to find but have been unable.
    To get to the bottom of anything we have to call them, only they would have the power to change shipping order. >>




    until there is definitive proof with full order numbers and full tracking numbers....

    then none of this is happening as far as anyone can prove.

    Current maintainer of Stone's Master List of Favorite Websites // My BST transactions
  • ElynnElynn Posts: 137 ✭✭


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    << <i>Does anyone have the contact names and phone numbers of some people actually at the us mint offices in washington?
    Not the yahoo's that answer the usmint catalog 800 number...
    I recall a couple years ago that they were listed here and I was trying to find but have been unable.
    To get to the bottom of anything we have to call them, only they would have the power to change shipping order. >>




    until there is definitive proof with full order numbers and full tracking numbers....

    then none of this is happening as far as anyone can prove. >>



    Can anyone provide this info for us on the board?
  • edgaredgar Posts: 886 ✭✭✭✭
    .

    (l8-)>>



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    << <i>Does anyone have the contact names and phone numbers of some people actually at the us mint offices in washington?
    Not the yahoo's that answer the usmint catalog 800 number...
    I recall a couple years ago that they were listed here and I was trying to find but have been unable.
    To get to the bottom of anything we have to call them, only they would have the power to change shipping order. >>




    until there is definitive proof with full order numbers and full tracking numbers....

    then none of this is happening as far as anyone can prove. >>



    Why not email the president of PBGS? Or someone with some pull there. Tell them to ship our F ing orders and to follow mint policy for FIFO. Not that it'll do any good..
  • ElynnElynn Posts: 137 ✭✭
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 32,970 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>

    << <i>Does anyone have the contact names and phone numbers of some people actually at the us mint offices in washington?
    Not the yahoo's that answer the usmint catalog 800 number...
    I recall a couple years ago that they were listed here and I was trying to find but have been unable.
    To get to the bottom of anything we have to call them, only they would have the power to change shipping order. >>




    until there is definitive proof with full order numbers and full tracking numbers....

    then none of this is happening as far as anyone can prove. >>



    Why not email the president of PBGS? Or someone with some pull there. Tell them to ship our F ing orders and to follow mint policy for FIFO. Not that it'll do any good.. >>





    until there is definitive proof with full order numbers and full tracking numbers....

    then none of this is happening as far as anyone can prove.
    Current maintainer of Stone's Master List of Favorite Websites // My BST transactions
  • INXSINXS Posts: 1,202
    So unless you call the Mint directly you don't know if your order is still active or it has been lost in the computer someplace. The website for order history should be up by now. This is a total disgrace to the Mint.
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  • DON'T YOU PEOPLE THINK YOU ARE BEING A BIT TOO CRITICAL OF THE MINT?!?
  • Hello all, my order was placed within 35 minutes on 1/22 and have not received an email about UHR being shipped. Spoke with customer service earlier and asked when mine would ship, was told by 4/24. I mentioned other customers with higher numbers have either rec'd their coin or rec'd an email that it is being shipped. She denied that this was happenning and I informed her again that it was and someone needs to investigate this.


    Also, this is the president's email address at Pitney Bowes, got if from their website: matthew.broder@pb.com

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  • didn't the Mint "re-align" their computer operations back during the period when the first First Spouse or two had come out? it's a vague memory now...help!

  • i just got mine...thought the coin would be a little bigger
  • I just sent an email to Broder at PB explaining the issues with LIFO shipping. Let's see if anyone responds.


  • << <i>I just sent an email to Broder at PB explaining the issues with LIFO shipping. Let's see if anyone responds. >>



    You should send one to President of PBGS. Doubt PB president will do anything even though they own PBGS they have different management I believe.
  • phehpheh Posts: 1,588
    My guess would be that those of us who ordered early have our coins; in boxes; with the original and "fouled up" book ... either being torn open and having the books removed and subsequently repackaged. Or being ignored until such time as they get the other shipments which hadn't already been boxed out the door.
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