[78-L] First eBay problem

[L78rpm at aol.com]

A few years ago I received, on loan, an audio cassette holding a live  
performance of a modern classical composition.   Eventually it was  returned to 
the sender in a timely manner and arrived smashed to pieces.   The carrier 
apologized and explained that he had run it over with his  truck.  At least 
he didn't throw it away, press "delivered" and shrugged  off a request to 
learn why it never reached its destination.
 
paul charosh
 
 
 
In a message dated 12/28/10 2:54:22 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
dlennick at sympatico.ca writes:
 
Gee, I  didn't know the USPS was using the Toronto Police Department's 
Special  
Investigations Unit guidebook.

That's like the little bastard who  delivers (sometimes) the local paper 
three 
times a week, which is of  interest only for the store flyers. When one's 
missing, he says "Kids must  have stolen it."

dl

On 12/28/2010 2:28 PM, L78rpm at aol.com  wrote:
> An underlying problem is that the "investigation" conducted by  the USPS
> seems to be completely self-contained.  It appears that  all the carrier  
needs
> do is punch a key indicating "delivered"  and that is their proof that it
> reached its intended  destination.
>
> The carrier could have run it over with his truck  and thrown it in the
> trash, but if the computer says "delivered," that  satisfies the USPS.  
They
> are answerable only to  themselves.   A standard answer from the  USPS:   
"It
> must have been stolen from your doorstep."  Prove that  it  wasn't!   And 
given
> that they "conducted an  investigation" and are  satisfied that it had 
been
> delivered,  they won't pay the insurance.
>
> paul  charosh
>
>
>
> In a message dated 12/28/10 2:19:24  P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> ekluwer at gmail.com writes:
>
>  I can't  understand why Archeophone didn't send such a rare and  
significant
> record  with a Fedex or DHL!!!
>
> On  Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Tim Brooks<tbroo2 at yahoo.com>   wrote:
>
>> Sorry you had this problem. I  related a very  unfortunate case like this
> in
>> my ARSC Journal column  a  couple of issues ago. I had sent an extremely
> rare
>>  1916 Starr record  to Archeophone for reissue, and they returned it  via
> USPO
>> insured. As  with yours, it never arrived.  The PO said it had been 
scanned
>> into the  zip code, and had  been "left at your door." However I was at
> home
>> at   the supposed time of delivery and no one rang the bell; I went out
>  that
>> door a few minutes after it was allegedly delivered and there  was  no
> package
>> in sight.
>>
>>  Rich Martin of Archeophone did  everything humanly possible to try  to
> track
>> it down, including  repeatedly contacting  the postmaster, and filing
> claims.
>> I talked to  my  carrier and he said there was a substitute on the route
>  that
>> day.  Bottom line, they were all
>>    very sorry but did nothing whatever  (as far as I can tell) to try  to
> find
>> it. They also refused to pay the   insurance.
>>
>> They've lost other things too, like  magazines, and  they really don't
> care.
>> They've got  guaranteed jobs, no consequences  if they screw up, etc. 
etc.
>>  What makes it doubly unfortunate is that  this was probably the  only
>> surviving copy of a rather historic black  recording. My  best advice to
>> everyone reading this is if it's  important,  either use UPS or Fedex, or
> at
>> least signature  required.  USPO insurance is worthless. Hindsight is
>>  wonderful.
>>
>>   The one bit of good news in  this case was that Archeophone made a
> digital
>> transfer  while they had the record, and it is now out on Ken   
Flaherty's
>> excellent new Fisk Jubilee Quartet CD called  "There  Breathes a Hope"
> (with
>> notes by myself and  the estimable Doug Seroff).  So the sound survives,
>  even
>> if the Post Office has made sure that the  record  didn't.
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original   Message
>>   -----
>> From: "Taylor  Bowie"<bowiebks at isomedia.com>
>> To:
>>    "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>  Sent:
>>   Monday,  December 27, 2010 5:12  PM
>> Subject: [78-L] First eBay   problem
>>
>>
>>>
>>   I've  always posted on here  about all my good eBay experiences as  a
>> buyer,
>>> so thought  I should alert all to a  probelm I just had
>> which resulted in  my
>>>  being out  $140.
>>
>>
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