USPS weighs the package at each scan. They will know exactly where it was removed, and if you insured it properly, a supervisor signed for it at each exchange.
Bluegrass vanished during transportation (USPS)
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That’s really good information to know which I wasn’t aware was done by USPS.
Well wonder why there was no one checking what happened?
Know USPS REGISTETED MAIL is best most secure method, but it’s pricy.
Think Cue was stolen, and someone thinks they got away with it.
Hope Postal inspector get involved, and recover.
Because Timothy didn't file a lost mail request?
If it was properly insured ($1000+) and declared, they will run it down to the machine it was "lost" at and probably have footage of the person touching it.
If it was insured for $100, they will just pay off the $100 and move on.
It may have fallen out of the tube if there was enough play for the cue to bang around and break the end. They store all lost items for ~1 year before shipping off to auction
Their insurance is the only good one. All other carriers will straight up rob you. USPS has incredibly granular parcel data and will pay without hesitation if it was their fault.
It's Ok to insure twice the cost, isn't it?
To make whole the seller and the buyer.
That is a pretty cue, not, was a pretty cue, somebody has it.
I suppose it would be some comfort if USPS finds it, fell out of the package, has it, maybe it's not banged up, tossed up on a metal shelf somewhere in the lost and found department, not separated.
...thinking out loud like that isn't helpful, sorry.
To make whole the seller and the buyer.
That is a pretty cue, not, was a pretty cue, somebody has it.
...thinking out loud like that isn't helpful, sorry.
No. You only need to insure it once to make everyone whole.
Well it is good idea to buy insurance for replacement of true value, and have proof of value. Federal Express, and UPS do not provide what I call true insurance value. They beat you up on claims unless you can provide an apparel from reputable source. Also both UPS, and FedX's first hurdle is to look at how item was packed and protected. Then they blame you for their employees being like Zoo Gorella.
My golden rule for sensing anything in Mail is pack like it is going to war zone, lots of padding inside, and use pleanty of TAPE. Know one guy who use to sell many Cues, Tommie1351. He would use DUCK TAPE, the Lots of Clear Tape, took sharpe knife to undo. But his Shoppong Tube were like the Paper Tubes News Print Came on.
No, you need proof of sale for payment and get that amount back
yep,
had to do the one hand too the other hand check thing to realize
my thinking today has had some flaws about it...
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Man With A Golden Arm
OK if one has a taste for prison.
I’m very sorry for you both.To all my AZB friends, I need your help to keep a lookout for me. I had a cue disappearing during shipment via USPS to Colorado.
Here’s the story:
I sold this Bluegrass Cocobolo Merry Widow to a member here, Rack’em (aka Joe Tsirlin) out in Colorado, USA. Cue was shipped on May 3rd, arrived in the states on the 10th, then arrived in CO on the 23rd. On the same day, Joe had the postman showing up his doorstep with the package, only to realized the package (tube) has one lid opened (unsealed), there was no cue inside. Hence, Joe refused to sign the package and this empty tube/package will be returned back to me.
Never in my 13 years of cue business have I encounter such madness. At first, I figure the customs must have opened the package and did not seal the package back properly, resulting the cue falling out during transportation.
But most of fellow dealer friends reckon it’s most probably the mailman that took the cue out.
I know there’s no possible way I would get the cue back, but I’d like you all to have a lookout for me, if this Bluegrass cue shows up for sale or if someone tries to sell you this cue. Do let me know!
Here are some information of the cue:
* Cocobolo Forearm & Buttsleeve
* White Creamy Micarta Ferrules
* Black Spanish Bull Leather Wrap
* Two Shafts
* Full Sets of Matching Wooden JPs
* Year Made: 2016
* Serial: RH09
* Butt weighs: 15.01oz
* Shaft 1: 4.15oz (13.00MM)
* Shaft 2: 4.11oz (13.06MM)
If you check under the bumper, you can find the serial and the year made.
PS: By any chances, if you find the cue, I will also reward you with finder's fees.
Thank you,
Tim (TS’s Billiards)
More information about the cue, this was my original sale thread:
Richard Harris (Bluegrass) - Cocobolo Merry Widow
We’ve been getting a lot of inquiries for Bluegrass Cues for quite a while. Here’s your chance to own one! You don’t come across many Cocobolo cues that are in vibrant red, usually most of them are either brown or at reddish brown. Yet this one is on a Bluegrass! Light used Bluegrass built in...forums.azbilliards.com
A well known cue maker told me he never insures cues when shipping them. He felt it would attract the attention of thieves at the shipping companies. He also ships internationally the same way.
Always boxed to look like anything other than a pool cue. Never had one lost or stolen. Yet, there is always the first time...
Always boxed to look like anything other than a pool cue. Never had one lost or stolen. Yet, there is always the first time...
I've lost an item via USPS that wasn't insured. Luckily it was only a $150 item (Aussie locker for a Jeep) but getting $50 for insurance because I didn't insure it didn't sit well with me. There's no way I would send a cue, regardless of value, without insuring it. The insurance is cheap.
I bought a box of .380 ammo on line and was advised the the package would have no wording on that would lead someone to know it was ammo.
And they were right total stealth pack ageing.
And they were right total stealth pack ageing.
His reasons worked for him and his buyers understood his policy completely. I saw 14 cues heading out in one shipment to a single buyer in Taiwan. Well over $40,000.00 in value, no insurance. Shipped arrived no problem.
With that said. When I ship cues I insure them as well. I have not shipped any in the last five years and do not plan on doing so anytime soon. I prefer to sell locally, in person. I employ a CYA logic when it comes to high dollar items no matter when or where....
I noted this in another comment, USPS holds onto lost items for a while before auctioning. If a Lost Mail/Package Search request is opened, and photos are provided, they will deliver it if it fell out of the box there. If a package was broken into, and it was insured properly, they can see what happened and it will come back.
You got this one dead on the head.
thanks ideologist, good to know. Wife gets into a TV drama type show about the USPS lost to seek its owner on from time to time. I'll give my usual skeptical
comment, get the eye roll., I just move along...
I am the person who bought this cue from Timothy. When the mailman knocked on the door he handed me the package and a label slip to sign. After I signed I noticed that one side of the round tube had not packing tape covering it, and the other side was very heavily taped. The cap on the untaped side came right off and there was nothing inside the tube. I told the mailman that the package is empty. He said that I should mark it as damaged refused, and he took the empty tube back with him. I called USPS to file a claim, but they said that the origin terminal would have to initiate any claim. Since it came from Taiwan the claim would have to start on their end. Anyway I don't know whether it was USPS or perhaps customs that was responsible for the cue going missing. It did spend 10 days in Los Angeles customs before being cleared. Timothy was great through the whole process and refunded me my payment. I hope the insurance on the package reimburses him. And if the cue is somehow found I will gladly buy it again.