Random Thought Thread

Casinostocks said:
Mr. Elliot, apparently Jo is a very good singer but that's beside the point. Thinking about it, Nathan needs all the luv and encouragement to keep us knuckleheads happy like swines rolling in shyte! How the Eff is he even making it with his business's accelerated purchasing (machines, material, etc), materials burn rate, machine shop expansions and specialized human resources hire(s) based on Fridays' sales every 2-3 weeks plus biannual preorders? OK, the preorders are no $louches but still, he does drive sh*tty Ford trucks because he sacrifices it all for Abbey, Harrison, Sadie and most importantly for us! Yes, I will sing for him eventhough I often literally sound like the pig who equals on its way to the slaughter.
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yoko said:
Oh crap I hope it'll get figured out

Damn
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Mendoman said:
The wrong address may be able to be “intercepted” if the sender creates an account online with USPS. I just went through that with a knife. They only gave me the option to return it to my address on pick it up at a Post Office, but not send it to a new corrected address. Good luck.
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Casinostocks said:
I am very sorry to hear this and I genuinely hope that it all works out for you. I don't wish to add to your angst and anxiety but I can only share a similar personal experience on an expensive item from many moons ago (I believe about 15-16 years ago!).

I sold a Rolex President and a matching bracelet for almost 10K back then and had the package processed through a UPS (I know that your case is USPS) store. Many UPS stores are franchises unlike USPS so there are potentially more risks involved as opposed to going directly to a UPS owned depot and initiating shipment from there. Risks like an employee deciding to steal a high value item and then bail! The paperwork back when indicated the contents and the insured value, whatever. This package then went into a proverbial blackhole and did not appear for almost 7 days making me shyte bricks in the meantime. Ultimately it just showed up at the buyer's sorting hub back East (shipped from CA) and during that time, I was getting passed around like a football between the drop off and the UPS main. I believe to this date that the package went to some special inspection facility to check for stolen merchandise which no one ever confirmed to me being the case.

Since in your first scenario we are talking about a high value gun (double whammy) it is possible that it got flagged somewhere and once the power that be are satisfied there are no malfeasances, it will show up again on the radar. I am just very surprised that the seller/sender did not use FedEx / UPS (despite the story above!) for better chain of custody track record or even adding Certified / Registered when using USPS. Yes, this slows things down a bit because the chain of custody within USPS will need to account for the merchandise handling but highly recommended when things tend to go to the "blackhole" locations!

The second scenario can simply be the FFL addressing issue. All the best with your situation and any one who has come across similar knows only too well how anguishing these are. My hunch is that you will have positive outcome to both but it's very tough going in the meantime!
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Update: First gun just appeared, and I got the call from my dealer!
 
madcap_magician said:
Guys, I'm panicking about the post office. I have $12,000 in irreplaceable pistols in the mail. A custom that was sent priority express last Wednesday with scheduled delivery Friday that hasn't been seen or scanned since Wednesday night, and a WW2 Colt that the sending FFL sent to the wrong address. (Though in fairness to him, there were two addresses on the receiving FFL's certificate... but on the other hand, one was clearly labeled the store premises.)
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Casinostocks said:
I am very sorry to hear this and I genuinely hope that it all works out for you. I don't wish to add to your angst and anxiety but I can only share a similar personal experience on an expensive item from many moons ago (I believe about 15-16 years ago!).

I sold a Rolex President and a matching bracelet for almost 10K back then and had the package processed through a UPS (I know that your case is USPS) store. Many UPS stores are franchises unlike USPS so there are potentially more risks involved as opposed to going directly to a UPS owned depot and initiating shipment from there. Risks like an employee deciding to steal a high value item and then bail! The paperwork back when indicated the contents and the insured value, whatever. This package then went into a proverbial blackhole and did not appear for almost 7 days making me shyte bricks in the meantime. Ultimately it just showed up at the buyer's sorting hub back East (shipped from CA) and during that time, I was getting passed around like a football between the drop off and the UPS main. I believe to this date that the package went to some special inspection facility to check for stolen merchandise which no one ever confirmed to me being the case.

Since in your first scenario we are talking about a high value gun (double whammy) it is possible that it got flagged somewhere and once the power that be are satisfied there are no malfeasances, it will show up again on the radar. I am just very surprised that the seller/sender did not use FedEx / UPS (despite the story above!) for better chain of custody track record or even adding Certified / Registered when using USPS. Yes, this slows things down a bit because the chain of custody within USPS will need to account for the merchandise handling but highly recommended when things tend to go to the "blackhole" locations!

The second scenario can simply be the FFL addressing issue. All the best with your situation and any one who has come across similar knows only too well how anguishing these are. My hunch is that you will have positive outcome to both but it's very tough going in the meantime!
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I haven't shipped a pistol for awhile, but I thought you HAD to use certified/registered for firearms? 🤔
 
ferider said:
Pretty much the only song I sing in public, and only when under the influence :)

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madcap_magician said:
Dealers can just ship, I don't know if there's any special requirements. It was moving from out-of-state FFLs to my local FFL in both cases.
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Maybe that's why? 🤷‍♂️ Glad to hear at least one of them showed up!

I currently share in your consternation about having thousands of dollars worth of goods in limbo!!! 😬
 
steelcitysixteen said:
I feel like the frequency of CPK sales on here has slowed down considerably since the switch to the main sale forum...
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Our output on the regular sales threads is down right now while we service a special customer. Once this special order is complete we will step back up to normal levels.
 
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