STOLEN IN TEXAS: 1978 GMT 1675, serial 5515833

[stanc1]

Incredible!
Sorry for this.

[Chunky]

Good to hear that there was a happy ending!

[timedate]

i cant believe people trade such items through the post,

i would rather not have it or sell it if post was the only option.

[dbhak22]

Is the owner going to give USPS the reward? :)

Glad to hear the story ended happily.

[WIN.308]

Originally Posted by dbhak22

Is the owner going to give USPS the reward? :)

Not bloody likely. I’m still trying to decide whether I’m furious they lost it for 3 months or thankful they delivered it after losing it for 3 months. I’m hung up on the former for the time being but more than grateful it turned up.

[dbhak22]

Originally Posted by WIN.308

Not bloody likely. I’m still trying to decide whether I’m furious they lost it for 3 months or thankful they delivered it after losing it for 3 months. I’m hung up on the former for the time being but more than grateful it turned up.

I would certainly hope not. (It was a joke.)

[77T]

Originally Posted by WIN.308

Not bloody likely. I’m still trying to decide whether I’m furious they lost it for 3 months or thankful they delivered it after losing it for 3 months. I’m hung up on the former for the time being but more than grateful it turned up.

It is a puzzle wrapped in an enigma.

Glad you’re “whole” again - but the curious will want to know if you’re driving to pick it up later when it’s ready.

There are no guarantees in the shipping business.


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[WIN.308]

Originally Posted by dbhak22

I would certainly hope not. (It was a joke.)

Never thought otherwise!

[WIN.308]

Originally Posted by 77T

It is a puzzle wrapped in an enigma.

Glad you’re “whole” again - but the curious will want to know if you’re driving to pick it up later when it’s ready.

There are no guarantees in the shipping business.


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I’m tempted to make that 7 hour drive, for sure, though a good guy on here offered to make sure it got to me when it’s been serviced.

[77T]

Originally Posted by WIN.308

I’m tempted to make that 7 hour drive, for sure, though a good guy on here offered to make sure it got to me when it’s been serviced.

I’d take him up on that offer.

I can tell you from experience, while I was a package pitcher on graveyard shift while in College, (Mailhandler in P.O. parlance) that it is easy for 100 packages a day to get lost across the Country at sorting centers. Usually in the Outgoing SCF is where a package gets wedged under a float, or left in an unlabeled bag until someone is cleaning up.

How, you may ask?



My section in Miami was 3 times larger than that. During Christmas season (when yours prolly was shipping) I was pitching 300 an hour and during any night (12 hours) you can imagine the error rate.

So now the obvious reason for Registered Mail where all packages are signed off every step of the way.

BTW, UPS & FEDEX have newer, smarter centers 10 times that size but they also screw up due to human error.


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[WIN.308]

Originally Posted by 77T

I’d take him up on that offer.

I can tell you from experience, while I was a package pitcher on graveyard shift while in College, (Mailhandler in P.O. parlance) that it is easy for 100 packages a day to get lost across the Country at sorting centers. Usually in the Outgoing SCF is where a package gets wedged under a float, or left in an unlabeled bag until someone is cleaning up.

How, you may ask?



My section in Miami was 3 times larger than that. During Christmas season (when yours prolly was shipping) I was pitching 300 an hour and during any night (12 hours) you can imagine the error rate.

So now the obvious reason for Registered Mail where all packages are signed off every step of the way.

BTW, UPS & FEDEX have newer, smarter centers 10 times that size but they also screw up due to human error.


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That’s pretty much the picture I had in my mind of the central mail facility where the package fell off the radar. Only worse since it was in Corpus Christi, TX!

What’s interesting is when the All-Mighty Glorious Postal Inspector finally returned my call after two weeks or so he admitted they really had no safeguards for theft, no cameras, etc. And at the time the only conclusion I could draw from the facts at hand was that it had been stolen by a USPS employee. As it turns out, I was mistaken and I have some regret for jumping to the only conclusion that made sense at the time. And I’ll most likely never know where the package resided for nearly three months, although after reading of your experience it’s starting to make sense. They sure didn’t make it a point of calling me to explain. Gotta love a federal beaucracy!

[ExPADIdiver]

that is a crying shame.

[Runnin' Rebel]

We use to do the USPS mail shipping and receiving at Eastern Airlines from LAS while in school, the mail truck would come in drop off or pick up the mail in the baggage area underneath. The overnight signature mail was in bright orange bags. Not even locked up. One opened up and inside was a over night envelope that was open too and inside was 10,000 in freshly minted 100.00 bills. No one ever had to sign for pick up prior to loading the cargo or unloading from the plane. It was ridiculous how it was handled back then