The Case Of The Mysterious Disapearing Package!

[Cmosfm]

Figured I'd share this here...

About two years ago, July 2003, I won a Famicom/Famicom Disk System/Games lot from eBay. Cost me about 250.00 after SAL shipping (slow, cheap method). It was shipped in 3 packages from Japan, one was the Famicom & Adapter for FDS, one was Games, one was FDS itself, power adapter & a few more FDS games.

The 3rd package never arrived.

The guy was very nice about it though, he agreed to replace it for me, I'd just have to pay for EMS (Fast, trackable method) shipping. It cost me about 50.00 to have it shipped. It arrived, I was happy, but there was still a lost package.

Yesterday my brother comes home from school, tells me that his friend claims he has a package of mine that got mistakenly delivered to his house. That his mom opened it and shoved it in the closet a long time ago. O_O So we go pick it up, and of course, it's the missing Famicom DIsk System...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/Cmosfm2/noaddress.jpg

If you could read the ship date on it, you'd see that it says 7-3-2003.

So, my package get's delivered to someone's house by mistake, and instead of putting it back out by the mailbox with a note saying "wrong address" or taking it to the post office....3 MINUTES AWAY...they open it and keep it. When the open it and realize it's nothing they can use or hawk at a pawn shop for a few bucks...they shove it in their closet. The bubble wrap around the system and games hadn't even been undone!

Sometimes I wonder what our society is coming to, deceitful, everyone's always out for themselves. Really makes me sad ya know. :(

Well, I just thought I'd share. :)

[MarioAllStar2600]

LOL That sucks, but at the same time its kinda funny. At least he gave it back to you, just dont understand why he waited so long. You should smack a bitch.

[JJNova]

Good! Maybe this will happen with my wife's Digital Camera that mysterious disappeared somewhere between handing her Suitcase to the Clerk and getting it at the turnstile in Oregon. Perhaps it mistakenly got shipped to Ohio, to Scooterb's house, where he can take nudie pics of himself and then send it back to me in 2 years. That would suck, but at least I'd have the camera back!

[norkusa]

Wow. Incredible. What are the odds?

That was pretty lame that they opened it up shoved it in a closet instead of returning it to the post office. But hey, at least you got it...even if it was almost 2 years later.

[RockyRaccoon]

Now THATS one intresting Story.... So..2003... it's 2005 now...sheeeshhhhh!

At least you GOT it... I'm wondering if I'll ever recive the Coleco I ordered a month and a half ago some 3 years later now. XD

~Rocky

[scooterb23]

Good! Maybe this will happen with my wife's Digital Camera that mysterious disappeared somewhere between handing her Suitcase to the Clerk and getting it at the turnstile in Oregon. Perhaps it mistakenly got shipped to Ohio, to Scooterb's house, where he can take nudie pics of himself and then send it back to me in 2 years. That would suck, but at least I'd have the camera back!

You'll really enjoy pictures 16-24 :)

[DDCecil]

That gives me hope that the 4 packages I have lost in the last couple months return to me someday!

[xaer0knight]

Cmosfm @_@ Now i gotta think of whats going to happen if i want to Import a PC-FX, PCE Core Grafx II, or a Duo-RX... well i think its going to be EMS. Glad you got it tho, i know someone in my family would of not kept it for so long... or my luck wrong address, return to sender, or never showed up

[badinsults]

Wow, good thing it wasn't something really important and whatnot. How dishonest.

[vision89]

You know, a while back I won a Duo on ebay. Well, about a week or so later I received a somewhat large package. I assumed it was my Duo wrapped in an insane amount of bubble wrap or something and brought it inside without looking at the address. When I opened the package I was astonished to see a box full of catheders! (I don't remember buying these, well what the hell, I better use them LOL ) Instead of contemplating hawking the catheders at the local pawn shop and then keeping them in the closet for two years and laughing about how my neighbor would have to "hold it", I immediately checked the address, retaped everything so it looked like it hadn't been opened and took it to their house. They were very grateful and said it was his medical supplies and they arrived just in the knick of time as he had just run out. Well I thought I'd throw that out there as it seemed to go along with the thread. My Duo arrived the next day (to my neighbors house and they brought it to me - I think my mailman smokes pot) and has certainly brought me much more joy than the box of catheders ever would have.

[Lemmy Kilmister]

So, um.. is this Famicom for sale now that you have two?

[Cmosfm]

So, um.. is this Famicom for sale now that you have two?

Well, this Famicom Disk System isn't complete, it's missing the adapter that hooks to the Famicom. I'm keeping it anyways, just in case something happens to the one I use.

[I Am Humanoid]

Yesterday my brother comes home from school, tells me that his friend claims he has a package of mine that got mistakenly delivered to his house. That his mom opened it and shoved it in the closet a long time ago.

Lawsuit!

Your brother's friends mom's

fingerprints are on the box.

Maybe you could try to teach her

some common sense, although it

really can't be *taught* -

you have to be born with it.

Messing with the post office is a federal offense!


his mom opened it and shoved it in the closet

Shove her big fat ass in the closet.

Butter up the door frame so she can slide right in.

[tholly]

at least you have a spare now

i think its time to tell them that their stealing your package cost you $50 and if they don't pay you, you will report them to the post office authorities

being a federal offense, i think you'll get your $50 (although, being neighbors, this probably isnt an option)

[XxMe2NiKxX]

The human condition never fails to amaze me sometimes... Oh well, it could have been worse, half of it could have turned up in a pawn shop two weeks later.

[Cmosfm]

The human condition never fails to amaze me sometimes... Oh well, it could have been worse, half of it could have turned up in a pawn shop two weeks later.

Which would have, in turn, been bought by me and I would have questioned if it was really mine or not. LOL

But I doubt any pawnshops would really take in a Famicom Disk System. LOL

[kirin jensen]

A lot of people seem to be assuming that the package was sent to you via USPS (Postal Service). Was it?

Because I have to tell you that doesn't match up with my experience with the Postal Service. They have always left me a note if the package delivery was incomplete. UPS, on the other hand is pretty notorious for leaving packages on doorsteps, with neighjbors, etc.

And, yeah, recieving and opening others' mail without permission is felony.

[Cmosfm]

A lot of people seem to be assuming that the package was sent to you via USPS (Postal Service). Was it?

Because I have to tell you that doesn't match up with my experience with the Postal Service. They have always left me a note if the package delivery was incomplete. UPS, on the other hand is pretty notorious for leaving packages on doorsteps, with neighjbors, etc.

And, yeah, recieving and opening others' mail without permission is felony.

USPS is correct, their address was 217 something street, mine was 217 on another street.

[esquire]

Sometimes I wonder what our society is coming to, deceitful, everyone's always out for themselves. Really makes me sad ya know. :(

I assume you in turn are going to do the right thing by emailing/contacting the seller and tell him the package did arrive and that you are willing to ship the item back to him or offer to buy the FDS from him?


I'm keeping it anyways, just in case something happens to the one I use.

Ahh, the irony of it all. :hmm:

[Videogamerdaryll]

All I can say is WoW!!!.. @_@ ..(((Thanks for sharing that)

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I'm the type of person that would go ask the mom!!..What the F was she thinking(?)...Just to see what she had to say,Just to see what type of scum she is.
And if she denied it I'm beating my brother's friends ASS!!! :angry: :D

[Cmosfm]

Sometimes I wonder what our society is coming to, deceitful, everyone's always out for themselves. Really makes me sad ya know. :(

I assume you in turn are going to do the right thing by emailing/contacting the seller and tell him the package did arrive and that you are willing to ship the item back to him or offer to buy the FDS from him?


I'm keeping it anyways, just in case something happens to the one I use.

Ahh, the irony of it all. :hmm:

I already contacted him about it, he told me to keep it because he's out of the buisness now and has no use for it.

Thanks for trying though.

[SoulBlazer]

Yeah, I would argue you allready paid for that second system anyway, so no worries.

USPS DOES screw up the mail sometimes.....about once a month a letter comes in to our apartment building that is ment for another street. I just drop it in the mail box at work.

But you're right, your friend's mom was a ass for even opening it, and not telling you about it or taking it back to the post office! I'd demand further answers.

At least you finally got it. :)

[esquire]

I already contacted him about it, he told me to keep it because he's out of the buisness now and has no use for it.

Thanks for trying though.

Yeah I figured you'd say something like that. But I was basing my opinion on the facts presented at the time of my post.

[Crush Crawfish]

Yeesh, what kind of person opens other people's mail like that, let alone not even return it? Crap, can people even tell the difference between right and wrong anymore? Whatever....glad to hear you got your stuff back, though!

[joshnickerson]

My mom and her sister had a similar encounter... my mom sent my aunt a bed comforter as a Christmas gift (apparently it was pretty snazzy, about $150), but my aunt never got it. Then they found out that the package was delivered to the wrong house, and my aunt got the address it was sent to. She and my uncle actually went to the house, knocked on the door and demanded the package. Of course, the people had already ripped open the box, but fortunately the comforter was still sealed in it's wrapping. From what I heard, my aunt yelled at them for a good ten minutes before they finally gave up the comforter. LOL

[nik]

people like that need to lose the ability to see, nosey pricks.