Thankfully there are still some honest folks.

cbxer55

cbxer55

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A fellow member here wanted my Cold Steel Black Rhino more than I did. I shipped it via UPS Monday the 4th. It got delivered to the wrong house on Wednesday. Both of us notified UPS of the incident. They started an investigation.

Meanwhile, today a neighbor from another block hand delivered the package to him. Awesome! I was truly afraid that the knife was gone for good. A knife that is no longer made. Could have been a handicapped person, unable to do that. Or just someone who didn't care.

It's nice that there are still people out there who would do such things. I've done it a few times. But I live in a large apartment complex. I just hand deliver the package to it's rightful owner.
 
We all do that where i live. Accept one neighbor that pretends your package didnt go to her house and tries to keep them. We have the mail branch where they send those they cant fire, but need to.

Whether is paper mail or packages. Its a monthly occurrence at the minimim. Now that amazon has a warehouse locally and uses some third party delivery service for their 1 day delivery deal....., i have to do even more often. Sometimes it's on my street other times the other end of the neighborhood. It is what it is, but im offen tempted to tell amazon and the post office they owe me part of the workers wages since i have to do their job. Yeah ive complained and it goes no where. So i just accepted it.

It is nice y'all got lucky and got a decent person and all ended well. Nice to hear about people behaving as they should.
 
jbmonkey said:
We all do that where i live. Accept one neighbor that pretends your package didnt go to her house and tries to keep them. We have the mail branch where they send those they cant fire, but need to.

Whether is paper mail or packages. Its a monthly occurrence at the minimim. Now that amazon has a warehouse locally and uses some third party delivery service for their 1 day delivery deal....., i have to do even more often. Sometimes it's on my street other times the other end of the neighborhood. It is what it is, but im offen tempted to tell amazon and the post office they owe me part of the workers wages since i have to do their job. Yeah ive complained and it goes no where. So i just accepted it.
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Dang, sounds like you got a crappy postal service or something. Amazon has a warehouse around here too, my family orders, well, dozens of things every month(I buy a lot of used books and CDs) and I've had misdelivered or lost packages maybe 5 times within the past decade.
 
While I've never had anything I've ordered go lost or missing, I have had other's packages delivered to me. Like I said in the OP, I just take them where they belong, or to the front office if no one is home. Sjbmonkey, it sounds like you're delivery services there absolutely suck. Sorry to hear that.
 
I get tracking any and every time that I can. My latest go round with the post office proceeded from formally questioning another missing package, to a formal complaint on the carrier. Low and behold 5 weeks later the carrier "found" my missing package. A little flame under the foot doesn't hurt now and then.
 
It is nice to know there are some people who still have morals left in the world. This is getting more and more rare as we drift away from our moral foundations. (this can equally be said about work. Most no longer embrace the Protestant work ethic, nor remember it.)
 
As long as we're on the subject of honest folks with high morals, and lousy, dishonest customer service from a delivery service, I'll share a story with you. My last transaction on here, a couple of months ago, with another member with 100% positive feedback went something like this. I posted a CRK up for trade for a Strider SNG DGG. We agreed on a trade and maintained constant contact. The CRK arrived first, at which time the other member let me know and said that he was anxious for me to receive the SNG. When the package arrived a couple hours later, I opened it immediately and my heart sunk! There was an old, rusty, piece of junk Case Hunter in the box. Somewhere along the line, someone opened the package and switched knives. I contacted the other member, who was hoping that this was some sort of bad joke. Unfortunately, it was not. Long story short, he had shipped UPS, through a local Staples office supply store. Fortunately for me, the other member believed me and immediately returned my CRK back to me. That's an upstanding, honest, member. I had no way to prove my story, just like he had no way to prove his. I still feel bad about something so bad happening to an obviously good person. I won't mention his name, but maybe he would like to jump in and add to this story. Things could have certainly turned out much worse for me if not for his trusting nature and high standards. I've thought about sharing this story before and hopefully it'll make people appreciate the "good guys" when they encounter them.
 
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jbmonkey said:
We all do that where i live. Accept one neighbor that pretends your package didnt go to her house and tries to keep them. We have the mail branch where they send those they cant fire, but need to.

Whether is paper mail or packages. Its a monthly occurrence at the minimim. Now that amazon has a warehouse locally and uses some third party delivery service for their 1 day delivery deal....., i have to do even more often. Sometimes it's on my street other times the other end of the neighborhood. It is what it is, but im offen tempted to tell amazon and the post office they owe me part of the workers wages since i have to do their job. Yeah ive complained and it goes no where. So i just accepted it.

It is nice y'all got lucky and got a decent person and all ended well. Nice to hear about people behaving as they should.
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Happened to me not too long ago. I said I need to open a claim, and they fixed it real quick. FYI, the GPS that the USPS gives their carriers, is accurate to less than 3 feet. They know where they delivered it to.
 
The Fort said:
As long as we're on the subject of honest folks with high morals, and lousy, dishonest customer service from a delivery service, I'll share a story with you. My last transaction on here, a couple of months ago, with another member with 100% positive feedback went something like this. I posted a CRK up for trade for a Strider SNG DGG. We agreed on a trade and maintained constant contact. The CRK arrived first, at which time the other member let me know and said that he was anxious for me to receive the SNG. When the package arrived a couple hours later, I opened it immediately and my heart sunk! There was an old, rusty, piece of junk Case Hunter in the box. Somewhere along the line, someone opened the package and switched knives. I contacted the other member, who was hoping that this was some sort of bad joke. Unfortunately, it was not. Long story short, he had shipped UPS, through a local Staples office supply store. Fortunately for me, the other member believed me and immediately returned my CRK back to me. That's an upstanding, honest, member. I had no way to prove my story, just like he had no way to prove his. I still feel bad about something so bad happening to an obviously good person. I won't mention his name, but maybe he would like to jump in and add to this story. Things could have certainly turned out much worse for me if not for his trusting nature and high standards. I've thought about sharing this story before and hopefully it'll make people appreciate the "good guys" when they encounter them.
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I don't use 3rd party branches anymore. A few years ago, I traded a Falkniven A1 away. The USPS slapped a sticker on the box, stating the package was open when the carrier delivered it. Long story short, the insurance check came in a couple of weeks later. I ordered the recipient a new one in the mean time, to be delivered directly to him. Worked out in the end, but it still sucked. I have no doubt that a thief working for Probest Pest Control (the company contracting with the USPS) saw the insurance I put on it, and stole it.
 
I had a trade with a fellow forumite two years ago in which I was sending him a NIB Rajah I for his Black Sable. We shipped at the same time. I used FedEx, as I'd never had a problem with them and I knew that I could track the package. Two days after shipping, I get a call from a woman in a neighboring city telling me that she and her husband had been driving on a local road and found a FedEx package in the middle of the road. My name and number were on the return address, so she called to ask me what she should do with the package. I thanked her profusely for her honesty and requested that she take the package to a local FedEx office. It took her a couple of days, but she did so.

Meanwhile, I'm frantically contacting my trade partner to let him know what had happened. This was the first time we'd traded and I didn't want him to think I was ripping him off. He was quite gracious. He got the knife about a week after I received his.

Best we could guess, the package got left on the bumper of the FedEx truck when it was picked up and eventually just fell off in the road. There's no way you can track that! Thankfully, everything worked out because that woman was honest and diligent. If she hadn't been, things would have gone very badly for me, as I would have had no way to explain what had happened to that package. Plus, how would I ever go about replacing a NIB Rajah I?!

For what it's worth, I read FedEx the riot act over this. It finally took a letter to the Atlanta headquarters to get any satisfaction. But when I reached the right person at Customer Service, he genuinely seemed appalled at what had happened.

-Steve
 
I don't know about other cities. But here in Oklahoma City, I've seen countless big rigs driving down the highway, or a city street, with the damn door on the back of the trailer wide open. I'm talking local delivery rigs here, not long haul trucks. Watched one day as a semi went by my place of work, and his dang pallet jack flew out the back of the open door. It was a truck from a place I had worked at several years previously, so I called my former boss and told him where to find said pallet jack. I wonder if they ever fired the driver for that one? If there had been another vehicle behind him (heaven forbid, a motorcycle), that could have gotten quite ugly. I did this once on a cold snowy night , returning to the dock (OOPS!!!). BUT, the truck was practically empty and everything was at the front of the 53 foot trailer. And I also tied my pallet jack and two-wheel dolly to the sidewall, because I didn't want them sliding around, damaging anything that was in the truck.

So yeah, I could understand a box being in the road.
 
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Yeah I really was surprised I got it,but the guy was super nice about it,I offered him a few bucks for his troubles but he wouldn't take it.....Thanks for everything cbxer,got the teflon washers today and put the knife together after epoxying the lock pin so it wont slide forward works super also polished the aluminum w/flitz came out nice....totally getting into the CS alum/g10 knives
 
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