Stolen Knives - Reward

Originally posted by edw11
2 Ron Lake knives were stolen in the Boston area.

Knife 1 - All gold folder with white pearl interframe

Knife 2 - Steel folder with black pearl interframe, reverse logos,
reverse escutcheon plates

REWARD of $2000 per knife, no questions asked.

Email me at edw11@aol.com

edw11
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Thank you for all your support. I am waiting for the area manager to
call me. Here is what happened. I shipped two knives to a friend for
Saturday delivery. He along with two other people were anxiously
awaiting delivery of this package on Saturday morning. They were in
the house looking out the window over the driveway waiting for the
delivery truck. The truck never appeared. The driver claims that he rang the doorbell, no one answered, so he left the package at the door. There was no release on file authorizing a package to be left without signature so the driver violated procedure and THERE IS NO WAY
ALL THREE PEOPLE WAITING FOR A VALUABLE PACKAGE WOULD NOT SEE THE TRUCK OR HEAR THE DOORBELL.
edw11
 
Phantom 4

I am covered with insurance on my homeowners policy. Therefore,
I took no insurance through Federal Express. The recipient of my
knives frequently sends and receives valuable packages so perhaps
the driver had a "hunch".
edw11
 
Not trying to defend FedEx here, but perhaps the driver went to the WRONG house and left the package on the wrong porch? Of course, he's still violating procedure if there was no signature-release on file...
 
Frank,<p>You may have hit the nail on the head. I had such an experience when shipping a limited edition Osprey via FedEx Ground from Los Angeles to San Diego area. In my case, the receipient at the wrong address (a business) actually signed for the package, but when the FedEx driver went back a few days later to retrieve the package they claimed it was nowhere to be found.<p>Insurance will cover it, but the customer loses the serial number he ordered specially to match his birth year.<p>By the way, you guys may not know this but FedEx Ground drivers are independent contractors and my driver told me that if he messes up the full amount would be deducted from his pay. They even deduct from their pay for customer complaints. OUCH... especially since FedEx CHARGES shippers for insurance, I don't have a clue why they would make the driver responsible for any sort of loss?<p>Good luck in retrieving the knives. It's a heartbreaker.
 
I ordered a spiked battle axe from Starfire Swords a couple years ago, and it never arrived. Called Starfire, called FedEx, called the cops. Turned out that it got delivered to my retard neighbor (who apparently never thought of giving me the package with my name on it that he never ordered :rolleyes: ), and the FedEx driver dropped it off at my house almost a week and a half later. It cost like $90 - not a whole lot now, but a heck of a lot to me back then. :mad:

Hope you find your knives, edw11. :(

Asha'man
 
Originally posted by HermanKnives
why would anyone initially think this was a troll? i think many here have trolls on the brain:(
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edw11, sounds like "The Salem Witch Hunt of 1692"
i guess if you have under 10 posts you better watch out :(
 
man, this is horrible it's always sad to hear stuff like this, but my question is how did the driver know what was inside?
 
Back in 1998, I had sold some stock top buy a car and the broker was supposed to send the check by Fed-Ex to my house, signature only, etc. The car dealer had delivered the car with the both our expectation that I would have the check w/in 2-3 days, but when I hadn't seen it after 5 days, I was in a real panic. Forunately, we had dealt with the dealer a number of times and they were being understanding about it. In any case, it turned out that the damned Fed-Ex driver had delivered the check to a Hecht Company store at the same number but a different street from mine. Fortunately, the bank was more than a bit suspicious when a person who spoke no English tried to cash a $25,000 check made out to "Hugh and Georgia E. Fuller as Joint Tenants". It took a few days to sort it out, and Fed-Ex was having a fit over it, as was the broker who had chosen to use them as a carrier, but we did work it out. Koons Dodge was also very relieved to get their money after about 10 days instead of the expected 2-3 days.
 
Ugh! I feel your pain. I had a lefty Sebenza for sale with dual thumb studs and a swedge. I sent it via FedEx. Because it was a Saturday, I sent it through the Mailboxes, Etc. (ME) place I often dealt with instead of a regular FedEx office. It never got to the recipient. Either ME lost it or the FedEx driver did. ME claimed that they handed it to the FedEx driver later that afternoon. I wrote to FedEx about it and they said that so long as it wasn't scanned, they would not take responsibility for the loss. Since I didn't didn't fill out the declared value portion of the airbill, ME said they'd reimburse me for only $100. Never lost a package via FedEx before or since. I learned my lesson. I'd watch a FedEx clerk scan the airbill every time since then so I could rest assured that it was in their system and that they'd be responsible for the package. I also now declare the full value of the item.
 
I think someone already mentioned it, or something similar, did you (or the sender) verify the address to which it was actually delivered? A simple question, but it may be that it was delivered to an incorrect address, in which case someone got a helluva nice windfall...
It could be something as simple as the driver (or someone at FedEx) mis-read the address. That would explain it...
 
grnamin, I have a friend that lost the contents of a package worth hundreds of dollars when he sent it through Mailboxes Etc. It wasn't exactly something he should have been sending... but when it got to his other address, the heavily wrapped/sealed nested boxes had been opened, and his "stuff" confiscated. Only a little smidgin of vegetable matter :) was left in the cookie tin.

He hasn't gotten into any trouble with the law, so I'll assume that it was a Mailboxes Etc. employee that opened up the package. Better be careful what you send through that company.
 
A year or so ago, I sent a package Fed Ex via Mailboxes Etc. (note that MBE stores are actually independent franchises). When it didn't arrive the next day, I surfed to Fed Ex's site, entered the tracking number, and was shocked when Fed Ex's computer reported "no such number." I called the local MBE store the next day and they swore up and down that they'd submitted the package to Fed Ex just hours after I'd given it to them. They remembered it since it was a tube of rolled drawings -- kind of unusual. Fed Ex said, by phone, "We have no record of receiving it." So, I plotted new copies (it costed about eight dollars per page at the time to plot them making the drawing package in question worth about $200 in materials alone.) This time, I took my tube to the post office and paid their obscene overnight rate. The next day, the receipient called and said he'd received BOTH tubes. When I checked Fed Ex's site, it said that they'd received the package the previous day and delivered it normally. When I confronted MBE, they insisted again that they'd handed the package to Fed Ex several days earlier. After quite a bit of argument, they finally did agree to make an exception and refund my postage.

Remember, MBE stores are independently franchised. So, the quality of service you may experience at your local MBE may vary dramatically.
 
Geez..... all these stories about MBE makes me think that we should just take on the hassle and just take the thing to FedEx ourselves.
 
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