**STOLEN KNIFE ALERT**

stonesell said:
I wonder if that depends on the Post Office. I am in Oregon, and they are always very cheerful and polite about scanning my package with a PayPal printed label, and giving me a detailed receipt.
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That has been my experience as well, at the 2 different PO's that I use (one near home in MA and one near work in RI).
 
Some good ideas in here. It is of course especially unfortunate that is was THAT knife. :( Thieves absolutely suck.

The horror stories have me on the fence when shipping high $ items whether to include ins anymore. It’s pretty hard to resist when the value gets up there. This is once again reminding me to consider Fedex or another shipper instead though.

I like that PayPal generated shippers don’t print the insured value. When I print from the USPS site and it does show the value, I always take a sharpie and black it out.

Seth, here’s hoping for a quick and favorable resolution brother. I know you’ll keep us posted.
 
Fullflat said:
I’ll stay locked in on this one, like a pit bull on a rope toy.
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It gave me a really sick feeling, reading your OP, Seth. I'm really sorry this happened & wish you the best of luck regarding some type of positive resolution!

It's such a unique, attention getting, one of a kind knife; hopefully, just like in Horsewright's case, it will turn up somewhere, and if & when it does eventually surface, I have no doubt, someone here will see it!



Horsewright said:
You are in for a very frustrating time now dealing with a mindless bureaucracy. They will deny your insurance claim. If you appeal the denial they may pay you. Even with their own Postal Inspectors report attached to the claim stating that it was theft by a postal employee, they denied it. They did pay on appeal.. You will have hours and hours on the phone and a stack of paperwork about an inch high before its all said and done. Little while alter I saw one of the knives and sheaths for sale on Ebay. Notified the postal inspector and........crickets. Feel for ya cause been there. One of the other times, the employee was arrested. Front page of the newspaper had a pic showing him being put in the police car. Never got any of our product back.
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^ This is exactly the reason why, I stopped adding additional USPS insurance to higher dollar knives. I just figured if they're lost or stolen, I'd rather eat the loss, than deal with a never ending headache & unwanted stress.
 
On USPS in DC - I've had packages marked delivered which have not been (usually, they turn up the next day), and have seen tracking updates telling me I've signed for a package on days when I haven't been home. There are good guys, and not so good guys amongst their staff here, but one thing I've noticed here is that they do tend to rotate the routes fairly often, so you don't have the same person delivering your mail for more than 6 months or maybe a year. So often you don't know your postman that well.

Lost parcels are still pretty rare in the big scheme of things, and if you send a lot of parcels, I'm not sure the premiums you pay for USPS insurance make sense, especially as they will try their best to wriggle out of paying for it. One of the parcels that I had go missing was a box of knives I'd sent to a popular kydex bender for sheathing. When he sent the box of sheathed knives back to me, it was left on the porch (despite notices saying not to do so), and stolen. USPS did pay out for the insurance claim, but because I didn't have receipts for the knives (I'd had most for some time), they only paid for the value of the sheaths, not the knives. To me, this is a complete con - if you pay to insure a parcel for a set amount, and it is lost, you should receive the amount of insurance that you paid for. Having to prove the value of the package makes no sense - if they're not willing to accept the value of the package, they shouldn't sell you that amount of insurance in the first place. Of course, if you were dealing with damage or partial loss, then it would be different, just in the same way you need to evidence the value of what you've lost under home contents insurance.

I'm sure USPS will make Fullflat jump through hoops for the claim (that is how insurance schemes make their money, after all), but I'm optimistic they will eventually pay it (and happy to do anything I can to assist the process). That still won't make up for the fact that a really unique knife is lost, and will probably end up with someone who has no appreciation of its true worth.
 
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I ship a LOT of knives as well. NEVER had a fail in 15+ years.

One thing that also helps is disguising the originator source, if it's tempting.

I see a label says 'Urban EDC Supply' It would behoove you to change the source on shipments to something less revealing, like UES LLC or so. Or just the name of the seller.

I never use the 'knife' name in any TO: address. So common.

It's like leaving a box labelled 'DELICIOUS COOKIES' in a 2nd grader's playroom for the teacher while she's out... ;)
 
SharpByCoop said:
I see a label says 'Urban EDC Supply' It would behoove you to change the source on shipments to something less revealing, like UES LLC or so. Or just the name of the seller.
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Thanks for the reply Coop, but I’ve got to clear something up. The padded envelope you see labeled Urban EDC Supply was INSIDE the box, wrapped in bubble tape that was also taped shut. Nobody would’ve been able to see it until after opening the box and removing the bubble wrap. The box itself was labeled simply with the buyers name, and the return address with my own, just as you recommend. Thanks again for the reply, and here’s wishing you another 15+ yr of shipping success!
 
I always ship fedex and I always buy the insurance. If your worry is that purchasing the right amount of insurance will lead to a theft AND the insurance claim will not be paid you need to be asking yourself why you are using that shipper?

That said there is a usps mail product,(certified mail perhaps?)that has signatures every time it changes hands leaving no doubt as to where any shenanigans occur. I miss Esav he could have laid it out off the top of his head.
 
A bennett said:
How terrible. It was a beautiful knife... almost picked it up myself as my first on the forum. Sorry to see this happen.
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Thank you very much. I’d highly encourage you to go for it & grab yourself another Uncovsky if the opportunity presents itself. Excellent knives
Sergeua said:
Damn thieves. Sorry to hear this.
That knife is imprinted in my memory and you got yourself another set of eyes buddy.
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I really appreciate that brother! Thanks for the sympathies and the eyeballs :)
 
Uncovsky said:
Hello Seth, that is so horrible to read! I am so so sorry that this happened to you. :(
Anna
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Hello Anna, no matter the circumstance, it is always so nice to hear from you. Hope you and Matej are doing great over there. Thank you very much for your sympathies. Such a beautiful, well made piece. I won’t give up on finding it, as it is such a special knife. Your work is truly superb, and it makes me happy to see you bringing exceptional new knives to market :) Keep up the great work! The Uncovskys that I am fortunate enough to still have are no doubt my absolute favorite folding knives. I’m quite excited to see what you two have in store for the future. Thanks again for everything!
Seth
 
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