Someone at the post office now has a nice Busse knife...

Maybe UPS would be a better alternative to the postal serv. But I've also heard of handguns that have come up missing, but mostly off of the docks. That's a federal offense if caught. Man 230 and you were having so much fun yesterday hacking stuff up. Looks like your going to have to release some pinned up hostility with your BWBM. Anyway I'm sorry to hear about your loss just hang in there things will work out for you. D,
 
So sorry broh.
Stay positive... you never know, you just might get that Busse back.
 
230grains said:
I wonder how long a PO claim takes.
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From my experience.....a long time. They told me 3-4 weeks but it took 3-4months to get my $300 back on an insured package. It was a knife I sold and shipped and the box came back to me opened and empty with a note saying "contents lost in Indianapolis, return to sender". I think it was simply opened up by someone and removed. It was pretty obvious.

My post office told me the sender has to file the claim and refund the buyer.

Sorry about your misfortune.
 
the post office basically doesn't do insurance. They make money on it, but it's one of their lowest priority functions. I've never done ups, but fedex will get back to you within the week, and as long as you provide them with conclusive evidence of the packages contents (weight, sales receipt, declaired item and value from paperwork), they'll refund you within about 2 weeks time.

I've gotten into the habit of doing the full tape carpet roll method to ensure that if anything goes missing, the package exploded or someone stole it. it involves rolling the knife and sheath in a carpet roll of cardboard, taping the entire edge and both sides so it's a cuccoon of cardboard pressing from every direction ensuring it can't puncture through anything. and all sides of the package get tape to ensure it couldn't possible rip at the seems.
 
Man, sorry to hear. That truly stinks.

I tend to over-package my shipments, but if someone wants in, they'll get in regardless. It's odd that the sheath was still there, but you never know what some people are thinking.

Good luck with the PO.
 
Learned the hard way myself a couple of times. It's all in the internale packing and in the secure taping of every seam and edge on the outside of the shipping box.
 
I think LVC is right you should definately over package it and insure it throughly. Another thing would be to take pictures of the item your shipping for thorough proof that you did ship said item.
 
Greg45 said:
Man, sorry to hear. That truly stinks.

I tend to over-package my shipments, but if someone wants in, they'll get in regardless. It's odd that the sheath was still there, but you never know what some people are thinking.

Good luck with the PO.
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Tell me about it, it took me 20 minutes to open the package i got from you! :thumbup:

One sheath was still there, it came with two.
 
of course, any advice on how to package goods doesn't do much good if your the receiver :(

I had 2 guitars that were packaged.... worse than I have ever seen an instrument packaged and I've received over 40 in the mail. The first one was a guitar that had paper on the bottom, but only peanuts on the top. When I received it the head stock was resting on the concrete -through- the cardboard.

The second guitar... the guy... sigh.... he basically wrapped cardboard around a guitar and taped it with duct tape, and then put packaging paper over the horror to cover it up to meet usps shipping code. there was no padding. It wasn't even a box, it was a guitar shaped pile of cardboard.

such is the danger of internet purchases :grumpy:
 
230grains said:
Tell me about it, it took me 20 minutes to open the package i got from you! :thumbup:

One sheath was still there, it came with two.
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if the buyer is nice enough to go through the process with you, you'll have to provide email evidence that you sent what you sent and that the agree'd price was what it was insured for (paypal receipt). If you can give a weight for the knife and the two sheaths, and then show the boxes initial shipping weight (on receipt) and the end weight once you got it to show that something equal to the weight of the missing items is in fact missing that will be another source of evidence.

expect to fight for it, and wait a long time. keep on it and eventually (hopefully), you'll recover all of your costs. usps is good for speed, cost, and (mostly) reliability. They are not good for insurance, tracking, careful package handling, or customer service.
 
Last Visible Canary said:
The second guitar... the guy... sigh.... he basically wrapped cardboard around a guitar and taped it with duct tape, and then put packaging paper over the horror to cover it up to meet usps shipping code. there was no padding. It wasn't even a box, it was a guitar shaped pile of cardboard.
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That'd be really funny if it wasn't so sad. :(
 
Man that really stinks to hear that your knife went missing - I know the feeling and it just stings...

230grains said:
It just really sucks because I shipped out my ASH yesterday as a trade for the missing knife, now i'm out a mid sized blade.
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PM incoming :thumbup:
 
Every time a thread like this one is begun, my heart skips a beat or two, especially when I have stuff inbound. I'm so very sorry to hear of your apparent loss. Good luck on the insurance part :thumbup:!!

D-R
 
I've definitely shipped a knife or two in the flat rate cardboard envelopes (heavily taped) or the tyvek express mail envelopes. Now ya'll are making me regret doing so. I have wrapped the crap out of them before putting them in those packages, but I am re-thinking doing so in the future now.
 
My dealings with the local PO were less than cordial when a package went missing at one of their sort facilities. The first thing I was told was that if I did not purchase insurance I could go stick myself somewhere unpleasant. When I told them i had purchased it they told me I needed to bring in the original sales receipt and then fill out a form. This turned out to be misinformation as the claims would not be filed locally anyway and 'proof of purchase' included a very broad set of things to indicate the value. After masting months at the local post office, when I finally sent the right things to the right people it still took about 6-8 weeks to get the refund. They did not give me any real hassle once I was on the correct track and, if I remember correctly, they refunded the shipping price along with the rest. In the mean time I repurchased the knife and had it sent to the guy the original was supposed to go.
 
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