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11-05-2024, 07:03 AM
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Not blaming the seller, but I once got a card one year after they mailed it. It was in a non machineable envelope, my guess it got stored somewhere for a longgggg time.
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11-05-2024, 07:13 AM
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Purchased a 1953 Bowman Mickey Mantle graded a 2.5 by PSA (still have the old cert somewhere) It was misdelivered, stolen, and put up on ebay again about a state over from me. I was eventually refunded my money, but I still wish I had the card!
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11-05-2024, 01:46 PM
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Like fifteen years ago I had this high-grade 52T Campy sent to me by FedEx from the US. The guy forget to get signature and the idiot driver left it at the wrong house! If that wasn't bad enough, when I phoned FedEx, and they reached out to the driver, he told them that he had the right house! This went on for a few days and then one day the idiot showed up at my house with the package and apologized. Put me through hell!
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11-05-2024, 03:23 PM
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ouch!
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Made me think about Mize a bit and I don't think alot of folks know that he only struck out 524 times in his entire career! In 2009 Mark Reynolds struck out 223 times!!!!! Not shipping related but the Mize photo made me think of it! The mind works in mysterious ways! 
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11-05-2024, 04:26 PM
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It wasn't a baseball item, but a piece of video equipment. I packed it great, but UPS somehow destroyed it. When I filed an insurance claim, they rejected it due to "my poor packaging," but they lost that case in small claims court when I produced receipts and photos showing that I had packaged it at a UPS store, with the help of the store's manager.
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11-05-2024, 04:33 PM
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You had me at "Fed Ex".
I had a driver drop my item off at the wrong place, insisted it was the right place as addressed, then told me said item was irretrievable. Two weeks later it was dropped on my front porch with no warning or explanation while I was working my way thru the case claim with their own "investigation team". Now I often ask senders to use ANYTHING but Fed Ex and both I and my local Fed Ex driver are happier.
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11-06-2024, 06:33 AM
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11-06-2024, 09:32 AM
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Probably close to 20 years ago at this point, an eBay seller sent me a '55 Bowman Ernie Banks - raw in a PWE, with a yellow sticky note affixed to the card itself. Incredibly - for the condition it was described in - the sticky came right off and it was no worse for the wear.
UPS one time sent me a 1973 Angels Media Guide with Nolan Ryan on it - left on the front porch in heavy rain. Luckily I rescued the package within about 10 minutes of it being delivered - the item inside the packaging had not yet gotten soaked through, but it was well on it's way.
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11-07-2024, 03:28 PM
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I live next to my in-laws and one day I noticed a large box of text books in the street and books all over the street.
I went out and collected the books and box that had fallen off the back of the truck. I called FedEx and told them of the box and they were going to send a truck out to pick up the box and books. The driver said that I need to package the box and address it and seal it. And then proceeded to tell me that I need to call the office back for someone else to pick up because he could not accept it as he was FedEx Global and this was a local shipment. I proceeded to pack up the box and took it to a local Goodwill. Bob
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11-08-2024, 09:25 AM
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11-08-2024, 12:45 PM
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My most disappointing experience was something that was shipped to me by Heritage. It was the actual Topps Rookie "Top Hat" Trophy you see depicted on the 1960s cards (Seaver, Rose, Perez, Carew, etc.)
Joe Garagiola perennially hosted the Topps Rookie Banquet, and was presented a giant version of the famous Top Hat Trophy for being the Master of Ceremonies. As soon as I saw the flattened Box, I knew it was trouble. The box was crumpled almost as badly as a "baggie" within a PSA slab. It looked just like the roof above the Dodger Stadium Bleachers. When I picked it up, I heard the rattle of death. Sure enough, it was completely destroyed by UPS, and subsequently I have never used them since then. Looks like Heritage has removed the piece from their completed items search function, but here is the similar Trophy given to McCovey, for perspective... https://sports.ha.com/itm/baseball-c...ription-071515
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