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[BigAl52]

I have that ebay guy looking for it on his end and he is suppose to be getting back to me today. If I don't here from him today I will file a claim with ebay and if that don't work the credit card company will get a phone call contesting the charge. Its a barrel for cryin out loud with a tracking number and a signature required. What good is a tracking number if you cant find the package. It aint rocket science. Al

 

[mooman76]

A guy on another board purchased some lead from a private party and had it shipped in a USPS flat rate box. Very heavy and needless to say the postal workers hate them. Anyway he never received it and kept check with the PO and nothing until one time he went more than a month later he saw someone he knew. the guy checked around and it was there the whole time. The PO employee was a small person and didn't want to have to move it being that heavy even though it is a requirement they be able to lift 70#. He just wanted his lead and would have been more than happy to pick it up but the employee got fired.

 

[coloradoclyde]

And yet you can ship live chickens through the mail.... :haha:

 

[Daveco]

You should see how they act when your 3 pound package of bees arrives at the Post Office! :rotf:

 

[coloradoclyde]

I will come spring.... :thumbsup:

 

[MSW]

it's been a while since the UPS guys messed up a shipment to me, but perhaps I am lucky in that regard.

for what it's worth, I like (in order) Post Office, UPS, then FedEx. USPS is usually less expensive, and just as fast.

avoid DHL: they are run by idiots, who supervise inebriate monkeys at the behest of some off shore ultra wealthy gombeen man.

(that's the shipping tirade, for other tirade, please visit my website: www.luddite.com)

 

[Mad Irish Jack]

I've sold and shipped 4 long guns, some with accessories over the last 15 years. I ship them as an antique reproduction and insure them between $10K to $20K value. I have never had any problem with missing, misplaced or damaged packages. My friend in Hagerstown, MD flies to Rendezvous in the North Mid-west a few times each year. He insures his package rifles for $50K each, listed as Custom Antique Reproduction firearms. They hand carry them to his plane, hand up into baggage handlers who place in a secure rack. He's seen them unloaded the same way. He's asked to inspect them at pick up and sign for them. He says the $5 +/- he pays (depends on airline) is well worth the cost and few minutes to do the paper work and inspect. He says you can do that or take your chances. He feels if they loss or damage them the claim may be a softener to the loss (LOL). He right! He has a coupl

 

[Shifty]

I think most of the damage occurs at the first loading at the Airport Cargo Terminal back in my younger days I had a part time midnight shift job loading mail Planes and believe me there was no such thing as fragile when it came to loading you only had so long to get it loaded and as you where getting done the plane was starting up getting ready to taxi out,if you were not finnished your pay was docked,but if the plane was as much as 45 minutes late arriving you were sent home with only gas money.