I've had two situations with the mail that were interesting. The first was
a 50/2 Macro that was mailed to a former, and infamous, list member in
Australia. He claimed it was lost and I, unfortunately, had somehow managed
to not insure it. I refunded his money, always suspecting it wasn't lost. A
year later I get an email that it had finally shown up and he would ship it
back if I paid the shipping. Surprisingly that shipping cost US$90 for about
US$15 in postage, but I needed to cut my losses, so I paid it. Hope he
enjoyed using it for a year and profiting. The lens was then sold to a list
member in Europe and posted airmail. It showed up, if I remember correctly,
about 5 or 6 weeks later. Guess that particular lens is jinxed.
My other experience was the only truly lost box I've had and it was a
shipment to me, including a mint OM-1 and an MD-1. Post office marked it as
delivered (delivery confirmation) when it reached our post office. I've
found out that for packages delivered to a business, 'confirmation' only
means it made it to the closest post office. I eventually tracked it down
that it had been delivered to a building across the street, interestingly to
another 'Scales'. In repeated attempts to contact the person, I was shunted
from various person to various person and never could get in contact with
them. Surprise, surprise. The Post office finally paid on that one.
Tom
> Some years back I purchased a Zuiko 35-80, OM3ti, Motor Drive 2 and other
> less expensive items from a seller in the US. I am in Sydney, Australia.
>
> I asked for them to be posted in two separate packages as I was concerned
> about loosing everything if it went astray. The seller obliged and in two
> weeks I received one of the parcels.
>
> The second containing the 3ti never arrived and some ten weeks later it
was
> returned to sender, address unknown, although it was addressed exactly as
> the first. He found it on his door step when he came home from work. It
> had been to Sydney, and for some unknown reason, it was returned to the
US.
>
> The seller contacted me and was as flabbergasted as I was. He went back
to
> USPS and they kindly sent it again as an EMS parcel, free of charge, and
it
> was delivered in five days.
>
> So don't give up hope when things seem to be lost in the post. I am of
the
> opinion that 99.990f people are honest and through years of
international
> and domestic dealing I have never lost an item. (close though)
>
> Michael.
>
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