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A package, containing an eBay coin auction winning, and mailed from NC to me
on Dec. 4, arrived in my mailbox today. It has spent the past 45 days cycling between the Chicago and Atlanta terminals, having made several round trips. It was addressed correctly. Despite postal officials' delaying tactics and insistence that they were powerless to take action, it is observable that when pressure is brought to bear from both ends, things move. The problem was caused by a window clerk's mis-key of the first digit of my zip code, which then appeared on the meter stamp and barcode. All's well that ends well. Coin life is good! James |
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On Jan 18, 1:15 pm, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:
A package, containing an eBay coin auction winning, and mailed from NC to me on Dec. 4, arrived in my mailbox today. It has spent the past 45 days cycling between the Chicago and Atlanta terminals, having made several round trips. It was addressed correctly. Despite postal officials' delaying tactics and insistence that they were powerless to take action, it is observable that when pressure is brought to bear from both ends, things move. The problem was caused by a window clerk's mis-key of the first digit of my zip code, which then appeared on the meter stamp and barcode. All's well that ends well. Coin life is good! James Congratulations on the safe arrival of your package. I always fret when I order coins, from eBay or anywhere else: there is a small sense of powerlessness that I get when I know it should have been here by now, and it isn't. Les http://life-of-coins.blogspot.com/ |
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On Jan 18, 1:15*pm, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:
A package, containing an eBay coin auction winning, and mailed from NC to me on Dec. 4, arrived in my mailbox today. *It has spent the past 45 days cycling between the Chicago and Atlanta terminals, having made several round trips. *It was addressed correctly. *Despite postal officials' delaying tactics and insistence that they were powerless to take action, it is observable that when pressure is brought to bear from both ends, things move. *The problem was caused by a window clerk's mis-key of the first digit of my zip code, which then appeared on the meter stamp and barcode. All's well that ends well. *Coin life is good! James Well glad that's over. I could hardly sleep at night wondering where your errant package would turn up next! |
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wrote in message news:ad967d5a-ee9b-48f3-a10f- Congratulations on the safe arrival of your package. I always fret when I order coins, from eBay or anywhere else: there is a small sense of powerlessness that I get when I know it should have been here by now, and it isn't. Les http://life-of-coins.blogspot.com/ Kind of scary when I have three packages out there in postal lala land right now, one with a very significant British purchase. I have had stuff from Scotland take 8 weeks by registered and almost as slow as stuff purchased in the USA and sent registered. Too bad Mr. Jaggers package didn't have tracking on it that could be downloaded every night to see where in the USA it was at the moment, San Diego, Honolulu, Miami, NYC etc. |
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"Ukraina Dvi" wrote in message ... wrote in message news:ad967d5a-ee9b-48f3-a10f- Congratulations on the safe arrival of your package. I always fret when I order coins, from eBay or anywhere else: there is a small sense of powerlessness that I get when I know it should have been here by now, and it isn't. Les http://life-of-coins.blogspot.com/ Kind of scary when I have three packages out there in postal lala land right now, one with a very significant British purchase. I have had stuff from Scotland take 8 weeks by registered and almost as slow as stuff purchased in the USA and sent registered. Too bad Mr. Jaggers package didn't have tracking on it that could be downloaded every night to see where in the USA it was at the moment, San Diego, Honolulu, Miami, NYC etc. The package did indeed have tracking, which is how both I and the seller knew where it was (or at least where it had been). We could see every time it left Atlanta and every time it left Chicago, seemingly in an endless loop. However, it left Chicago on Dec. 22, 28, and 29, with no waypoints shown in between. It left chicago again on Jan. 12 and Jan. 13. Where it went between that date and today is anyone's guess. James |
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"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message ... A package, containing an eBay coin auction winning, and mailed from NC to me on Dec. 4, arrived in my mailbox today. It has spent the past 45 days cycling between the Chicago and Atlanta terminals, having made several round trips. It was addressed correctly. Despite postal officials' delaying tactics and insistence that they were powerless to take action, it is observable that when pressure is brought to bear from both ends, things move. The problem was caused by a window clerk's mis-key of the first digit of my zip code, which then appeared on the meter stamp and barcode. All's well that ends well. Coin life is good! James I hope mine come back. They lost one that I sent out over a month ago. Two Guadeloupe coins, 50 centimes and 1Franc. Luckily I had a couple extra 1F. coins I could replace them. I really wanted to keep one of them but.. |
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On Jan 18, 12:15*pm, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com
wrote: A package, containing an eBay coin auction winning, and mailed from NC to me on Dec. 4, arrived in my mailbox today. *It has spent the past 45 days cycling between the Chicago and Atlanta terminals, having made several round trips. *It was addressed correctly. *Despite postal officials' delaying tactics and insistence that they were powerless to take action, it is observable that when pressure is brought to bear from both ends, things move. *The problem was caused by a window clerk's mis-key of the first digit of my zip code, which then appeared on the meter stamp and barcode. All's well that ends well. *Coin life is good! James Yeah!!! Like my second cousin who had her baby boy in a little tuxedo at her eventual wedding to the child's father - the sign on the side of the honeymoon getaway automobile said "Better late than Never". oly |
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James:
You are very fortunate. Most items that are "lost" in the mail end up being auctioned off. I had a "theft" of almost $20,000 in coins. A postal employee stole them (cut open the package, took out contents and resealed with non-USPS tape) and I geuss got scared when they realized what they stole and dumped it at a sorting center. Long story short, the contents were turned in and when they could not locate the original sender or the destination they dumped them in a bin and sold them at auction. They are SUPPOSED to try to find out who items belong to by checking for contact information, looking up the reports filed, etc. In my case, I BOTH filed a claim of theft with the Postal Inspectors AND had my contact information on just about EVERY flip! Obviously not enough. I got back MOST of my coins because the person that won the auction went to the website on the flips and saw that I had posted the photos and noted that they were stolen property. He contacted to postal inspector and long story short, he was honest enough to give them back to the US Postal Service. I am out about $1,500 though. Oh, by the way, insurance is not good enough. If you pay for insurance you basically are agreeing that if you lose something it is then OWNED by the US Postal Service and they have the right to sell it. Even if they find it, you are out of luck. So if you insure something make sure you insure it for what it is worth and make sure that you can actually get compensated. Because if they determine that they can not compensate you and eventually find it, the insurance sticker gives them the right to sell it at auction, NO QUESTIONS ASKED!!! -Alfred Imperial Coins & Artifacts, Inc. http://imperialcoins.com On Jan 18, 4:35*pm, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote: "Ukraina Dvi" wrote in message ... wrote in message news:ad967d5a-ee9b-48f3-a10f- Congratulations on the safe arrival of your package. *I always fret when I order coins, from eBay or anywhere else: there is a small sense of powerlessness that I get when I know it should have been here by now, and it isn't. Les http://life-of-coins.blogspot.com/ Kind of scary when I have three packages out there in postal lala land right now, one with a very significant British purchase. *I have had stuff from Scotland take 8 weeks by registered and almost as slow as stuff purchased in the USA and sent registered. Too bad Mr. Jaggers package didn't have tracking on it that could be downloaded every night to see where in the USA it was at the moment, San Diego, Honolulu, Miami, NYC etc. The package did indeed have tracking, which is how both I and the seller knew where it was (or at least where it had been). *We could see every time it left Atlanta and every time it left Chicago, seemingly in an endless loop. *However, it left Chicago on Dec. 22, 28, and 29, with no waypoints shown in between. *It left chicago again on Jan. 12 and Jan. 13. *Where it went between that date and today is anyone's guess. James- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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