It's Been a Long Time Coming....

Lone_Wolfe

Lone_Wolfe

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Almost 2 years, in fact. June of 2016, I have 3 knives coming at once from different senders. One was not insured, it got to me luckily. 2 were insured, but never arrived. The regular mail carrier was on vacation, the substitute did something with them that didn't involve proper signatures and delivery. The senders both filed claims, got paid, gave refunds, all was good. Except I never forgot, or stopped looking for the knives. One was an Annual, I'll be looking for that one for a long time to come. The other was a large Regular CGG 3-In-Line, coming from a day at the spa and a re-ish birthcard.

Fast forward to yesterday morning, a "reeves folder knife" shows up for sale locally. Terrible pics, the backspacer, lanyard and clip missing. (How the hell do you lose the backspacer?!?) I made contact with the seller, we agreed on a public place to meet, and I ended up with the knife, but no leads on the Annual in spite of my efforts. I brought it home, and a previous owner, Ryan Raben, and I compare notes and determine that it is in fact the same knife.

It's not the pristine beauty that TChapman414 sent off all that time ago, it's got some scars to show for it's adventures. One gash on the blade and one on the scale look too deep to be removed. And the blade looks like it was used to cut rocks, then sharpened with a chainsaw. So off it goes to someone better with a sharpener than I am, then into my carry rotation. As much as I hate seeing nice knives treated as badly as this one apparently was, I can't say the thought of a nice CGG in my pocket is all that bad.

Welcome home at last, 3-In-Line! :)

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If that one finally surfaced, there’s still hope the annual hasn’t left town.
Were questions asked about the knife from the local seller? Did the seller indulge on how the knife was in his/her possession?
Hell of a knife for a daily user :eek:
 
Ajack60 said:
If that one finally surfaced, there’s still hope the annual hasn’t left town.
Were questions asked about the knife from the local seller? Did the seller indulge on how the knife was in his/her possession?
Hell of a knife for a daily user :eek:
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That's my thought, the hope that they traveled together for at least a time, and maybe the Annual isn't far away. The seller's story of purchase was innocent and plausible, I think he was telling the truth. I did tell him that I like knives like this, and would gladly buy any others like it that he comes into.
 
It drives me crazy that there is no accountability from USPS in these situations. This happened to me once, not with a CRK, but with another knife. Tracking was updated with delivered and signed for, and it certainly wasn't delivered to my house, or signed for by me. I live in the country. Being off by one house means being off by half a mile. Plus, everyone knows each other. When I brought the issue to my local postmaster, he basically just shrugged and said, "well it says it was delivered". That's it. Didn't offer to do anything else. No explanation given.
 
humblerodent said:
It drives me crazy that there is no accountability from USPS in these situations. This happened to me once, not with a CRK, but with another knife. Tracking was updated with delivered and signed for, and it certainly wasn't delivered to my house, or signed for by me. I live in the country. Being off by one house means being off by half a mile. Plus, everyone knows each other. When I brought the issue to my local postmaster, he basically just shrugged and said, "well it says it was delivered". That's it. Didn't offer to do anything else. No explanation given.
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First paragraph, claims were paid.
 
Wild ride ... and sad the knife seemed to be abused but glad it found it's way to you ... and like you said it will make a nice user ...

nice to hear the claims were filed and paid and thing worked out that way too ... so often it doesn't.
 
Lone_Wolfe said:
First paragraph, claims were paid.
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Right, I meant personal accountability. There are 3 people that work at my PO, and no one could offer any explanation of what happened to the package, or offer to look into it. Sorry, you just brought up some painful memories with this story.

Anyways, I'm really glad this one made it home to you after a long journey. It'd be really interesting to know what it got up to.
 
humblerodent said:
Right, I meant personal accountability. There are 3 people that work at my PO, and no one could offer any explanation of what happened to the package, or offer to look into it. Sorry, you just brought up some painful memories with this story.

Anyways, I'm really glad this one made it home to you after a long journey. It'd be really interesting to know what it got up to.
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If it could talk.... But then it might singe my ears!
 
I'm pretty surprised to hear that USPS paid out claims on knives. Everything I've heard is that it's pretty difficult if not impossible to get them to pay out claims even on insured items, knives in particular.
 
Pompous said:
I'm pretty surprised to hear that USPS paid out claims on knives. Everything I've heard is that it's pretty difficult if not impossible to get them to pay out claims even on insured items, knives in particular.
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