Random Thought Thread

Casinostocks said:
There is an outbound Customs and then there is an inbound Customs, here in the US. Most countries seem to be following the same sorta inbound and then outbound Customs divisions. I may be understanding this wrongly, but my understanding was that the destination country's inbound Customs had kicked those packages back.
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I actually think it's USPS themselves refusing air travel
 
Casinostocks said:
So is outbound Customs catching and kicking back? This is what happened to my UF with eBay but it got confiscated instead :(
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I don't think its Customs. Customs know the rules generally.
My parcel that was refused air travel actually came by ground rather than being returned. It had a sticker on that said something like 'knife! Air travel refused'
I have since had two go through fine
I think its a USPS employee that thinks knives are barred from shipping.
 
Casinostocks said:
I had mentioned it a while ago, 2 or 3 months back? Outbound Customs at Erlanger, KY deemed it as a prohibited item so it got confiscated. The buyer was from Australia and got refunded. I wanted the knife but eBay said no, you can keep the $ and we will keep the knife :(
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Huh? What happened to the knife?
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Huh? What happened to the knife?
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OK, to recap:

I put a UF with sharpened top on the Big Auction Site circa Feb 2020 right before the COVID lockdown. An Australian gent who incidentally turned out to be a member in here who also drops in this sub infrequently, bought it on that site. I only use their Global Shipping Program (GSP) where they do all the Customs and paperwork. All I am obligated to do is to get it to the GSP in Erlanger, KY and thereafter I am off the hook if the knife or anything else destined internationally gets lost which is my preferred ease of mind way to do things.

The buyer gets an email from the Big Auction Site informing him that the item was determined to be a prohibited item so he got refunded. I then received an email that the item was to be confiscated but I was going to keep the proceeds of my sale. I contacted them that I would have preferred to get the knife back and refund the $ but they told me that it was a prohibited item and that I was lucky to be able to keep the proceeds. I had to make some BS promise to read their terms & conditions.

The Australian buyer had insisted that he had several knives with sharpened tops shipped to him which cleared Customs without any issues and further seemed to know the rules in the land down under. That Site disagreed!
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I lost a good friend last October. He was dealing with some mental health issues, and anybody that has ever been around real crazy knows it's no fun. Ex marine with a traumatic brain injury and the medication wasn't working anymore. He was going down into the deep end of crazy. We'd been tight a long time but I wasn't enjoying our visits very much. Our last visit wasn't exactly toxic, but I was relieved when he went home. Then I didn't hear from him for a while and a few texts went unanswered. I wasn't surprised when they called me. I hadn't been particularly nice to him last time we spoke, even knowing what he was going through, and that isn't ideal, but is just being a human being and things are never perfect but your relationship is not defined by the last interaction, it's defined by the entire time. I find myself thinking about it a lot. I wish I didn't.
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Very well said.
 
fkctrjt121 said:
I don't think its Customs. Customs know the rules generally.
My parcel that was refused air travel actually came by ground rather than being returned. It had a sticker on that said something like 'knife! Air travel refused'
I have since had two go through fine
I think its a USPS employee that thinks knives are barred from shipping.
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Maybe next time it could be labeled "machined tools", it's a true statement and wouldn't raise any red flags.
 
Sorry to hear of your loss ronnie. I have lost a sister and my dad to cancer in the past few years and my mom has been fighting it for just over 4 years now. Cancer sucks!

Nathan made a great point that we are human and make mistakes but that doesn't define our life our relationships it's made up of years of good and bad and forgiving on both sides of every relationship. Remember the good that made the friendship what it was.
 
ronnie hood said:
Lost my only friend to cancer today,usps annoyed me.
Ah well,tomorrow will be better
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Nathan the Machinist said:
I lost a good friend last October. He was dealing with some mental health issues, and anybody that has ever been around real crazy knows it's no fun. Ex marine with a traumatic brain injury and the medication wasn't working anymore. He was going down into the deep end of crazy. We'd been tight a long time but I wasn't enjoying our visits very much. Our last visit wasn't exactly toxic, but I was relieved when he went home. Then I didn't hear from him for a while and a few texts went unanswered. I wasn't surprised when they called me. I hadn't been particularly nice to him last time we spoke, even knowing what he was going through, and that isn't ideal, but is just being a human being and things are never perfect but your relationship is not defined by the last interaction, it's defined by the entire time. I find myself thinking about it a lot. I wish I didn't.
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fkctrjt121 said:
I was stupid and 17 when my mum died of cancer. I regret so much.
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Standard78 said:
My condolences.
We laid one of my friends to rest yesterday who lost the battle with leukemia.
Tomorrow will be better.
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JJ_Colt45 said:
Sorry to hear of your loss ronnie. I have lost a sister and my dad to cancer in the past few years and my mom has been fighting it for just over 4 years now. Cancer sucks!

Nathan made a great point that we are human and make mistakes but that doesn't define our life our relationships it's made up of years of good and bad and forgiving on both sides of every relationship. Remember the good that made the friendship what it was.
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I am sorry to hear of everyone’s losses.
My condolences.
 
fkctrjt121 said:
I don't think its Customs. Customs know the rules generally.
My parcel that was refused air travel actually came by ground rather than being returned. It had a sticker on that said something like 'knife! Air travel refused'
I have since had two go through fine
I think its a USPS employee that thinks knives are barred from shipping.
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Lol. The knife might try to hijack the airplane all by itself.

The reason why I mentioned US Customs potentially having issues was anecdotal info about significantly longer delays mentioned by several different people, specifically when their tracking info indicated that the items had reached US Customs (weeks long, instead of days).
 
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