[78-L] Question about insurance

[David Lennick]

Speaking of missing items, I don't know if it was on this list or elsewhere 
that someone was asking about Dick Gehr (Metolius..CDs, discographies etc). I'm 
told that he's alive and has recently been recovering from surgery and unable 
to answer messages but will be back home some time this month.

We're in a semi rural area and I occasionally receive mail for the wrong 
person, sometimes on the same street and sometimes a similar number but a 
street I've never heard of. And sometimes it's the correct address but the 
wrong name (there's been only one previous occupant at this house). As well, 
sometimes I'll go pick up mail at Lewiston and find a card or letter with the 
wrong box #, so the same thing could easily happen with mail intended for me.

dl

Julian Vein wrote:
> David Lennick wrote:
>> Most sellers have willingly said "It must be lost, here's your money" when 
>> something doesn't arrive. DerWilly was a total putz about this matter and I 
>> believe he's no longer selling.
>>
>> Sometimes it's the Post Office's fault..as I may have mentioned here, I shipped 
>> an album (triple boxed!) from Lewiston to Texas back in October, by Media Mail, 
>> and it didn't arrive until mid December! Safe and sound.
>>
>> The shipment on which I claimed (and got) insurance was for about 180 discs, 
>> not 60..a whole load of near mint V-Discs from someone who'd had them stowed 
>> away since taking possession of them during the war. He did NOT pack them 
>> carefully..he put too many records in too few boxes. All the vinyls were fine 
>> but all the Columbia pressings were cracked or broken. Luckily, the claim was 
>> allowed. I'd still rather have had the discs.
>>
>> dl
> =============
> My experience didn't involve Eplay, but a highly regarded dealer. I bid 
> and won some items early in 2007 which didn't arrive after a couple of 
> months. I contacted the dealer who said he would investigate, but his 
> efforts got nowhere. As the records weren't insured I left it at that.
> 
> About July, I received a knock on the door from the next door neighbour. 
> She was holding a parcel, which she had taken in months before about the 
> time she lost a baby in childbirth. In their grief the parcel was put 
> aside and forgotten for several months, until they were having a sort 
> out, and came across it.
> 
> The good news is that a year later she gave birth to premature, but 
> otherwise healthy twin daughters.
> 
>       Julian Vein
>