Stolen in the mail Stan Fujisawa custom

HERBIEDUKE

HERBIEDUKE

Feedback: +1 / =0 / -0
Joined
May 19, 2002
Messages
1,108
Had Frederick, and a Fujisawa coming to me from my friend Partialserrations. The padded insured envelope arrived yesterday, with only the Frederick inside with a leather CRK pouch. After close inspection of the envelope, it had been opened with a sharp knife/razor and resealed with priority tape and 6 staples. I thought nothing of it at the time, as a little extra tape/staples never hurts. I checked with Robert as we exchange knives from time to time, and I thought maybe he decided not to send the Fujisawa, but I was still suspicious because the pouch didn't fit the Frederick. He obviously had sent both, and never taped or stapled the envelope. Interesting if someone was going to be a thief A..Hole Bastard, why he took one and not both. It was insured for $300. but the insured tag with $300 written on it was like a red flag. "Something good inside." If any one sees a Fujisawa for sale with a pocket clip on it (the clip normally dosen't come with the knife, and was added by Robert) please contact me, or Robert.. Here is a KF thread of the knife before the clip was added. <http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/688701/post/802256/hl//#802256> Thanks for taking the time to take a look at my thread.
 
Once again I have to ponder what has happened to the USPS in the past 4 months.

One passaround member is taking to sending stuff in a really biug box, so makes it harder to hide and steal from.
 
rosconey, please. With three-quarters of a million postal employees, the rest of us do resent the implication.

Cougar Allen has pointed out an important thread. I've gotten a few knives I'm surprised made it -- loose in a bag or small box, rattling around without any stuffing, when some wadded up old newspaper will keep it secure.

If you're sending it Priority Mail, a box is cheaper than a padded envelope -- it's free. Pick up a few at the Post Office, store a few old newspapers and some glasstape or duck tape with them, and you're set.

"Lead us not into temptation ..." -- and report that loss! Postal Inspectors actually do catch the bastards.
 
I should not of jumped to the conclusion of a theft. This is what I found out.
I went to my little PO today, and started to tell them about the missing knife.
She said that my carrier when he was getting his route ready noticed my envelope was open on the end, and told her. She taped the end thinking everything that was suppose to be inside was there, and stapled it. Soooo that's where the taped end came from. Sounds like because the knives weren't wrapped, the sliding around inside poked a hole, and the one knife was lost. The one that was in a leather pouch excaped, but left the pouch.

And yes you are right to all those that are thinking a Priority box would of been better, but you have to fling it around pretty hard to force it out the folded end.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
rosconey, please. With three-quarters of a million postal employees, the rest of us do resent the implication.

Cougar Allen has pointed out an important thread. I've gotten a few knives I'm surprised made it -- loose in a bag or small box, rattling around without any stuffing, when some wadded up old newspaper will keep it secure.

If you're sending it Priority Mail, a box is cheaper than a padded envelope -- it's free. Pick up a few at the Post Office, store a few old newspapers and some glasstape or duck tape with them, and you're set.

"Lead us not into temptation ..." -- and report that loss! Postal Inspectors actually do catch the bastards.
Click to expand...

You are absolutely right.......I should of made sure I had the whole story before I jumped the gun. I have replied with another post about what I found out. Still missing a nice Fujiawa custom however. Who knows some honest worker will turn it in to the lost, and found. I would not be surprised.
I apologize to any postal employees that rightly were offended.
 
Who knows some honest worker will turn it in to the lost, and found.
Click to expand...
That's why you have to file with the Postal Inspectors. If you don't and the knife is turned in, it will go to the dead letter office and eventually it will be auctioned off!

You would not believe the variety of items that go to auction. :(

When your little post office found a damaged envelope, they should have

1) marked it as having been found damaged in transit so you would have known from the start that it was the post office that sealed it, and

2) asked you to open it and verify the contents for them when you got it, so the Inspectors could have been called in right away if anything was missing.

We used to have an actual rubber stamp "Damaged in Handling in the Postal Service".
 
HERBIEDUKE said:
... but you have to fling it around pretty hard to force it out the folded end.
Click to expand...
The system handles packages WAY better than when I started with them in 1970. Then, we used to toss each package through the air into a laundry tub, sometimes as much as ten feet away. Thud!

Now we handle them with kid gloves, ... oops! until they get placed carefully into the laundry tub which gets rolled onto a truck, and bounced around on the road, with someone else's big heavy box on top of your padded envelope. Crunch.
 
Esav may I ask how does one inquire to the Postal Auctions ??? Do you need to be local to said PO etc. I realize off topic, my apologies in advance. thank you

Loandr.
rnatkin@cfl.rr.com
 
Ask at your local post office. They are held at the Main or General Post Office for the area usually, at intervals determined by regulations and the amount of material to be auctioned off. I don't recall how long we held goods lost in the mail, but I imagine it was at least a year. I don't believe there are any special qualifications needed to join in.
 
"noticed my envelope was open on the end..."

$300 worth of knives sent in an ENVELOPE? Even if not for the "cut or slide out of the envelope" aspect, using an envelope invites crushing the knives, without a solid box to take the pressure of a bunch of stuff bouncing around in transit, heavier boxes on top of it etc.

Sorry re: the person that sent that, but, that is just nuts. Especially with Priority Mail video boxes being free, it takes a lot to crush or rip open one of those little boxes, or for larger parcels their larger free boxes. Argggg.

Frank H.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top