Missing In-Coming Package from the States

[i*m-still-here]

I  bought a $600 item from the States near the end of August and it was shipped on August 29th via Registered FCI Lettermail.

That was the seller's choice of shipping methods and not necessarily mine.

It shows that it entered Canada on September 3rd and "Was sent for further processing at customs."

That was over 3 weeks ago and customs is in the neighboring Province where shipping time would normally be a few days.

I've contacted the seller who is as perplexed as I am.

We've both called our respective POs.

The person I talked to just said that it's extremely odd............. and so it is.

I don't want to escalate the case but what choice do I have?

Since it was shipped registered mail, and since eBay recently increased coverage to $650 (whatever that means)............

Does anyone have any idea what that means for the seller and me?

[i*m-still-here]

Maybe, it will still surface.  I hope so.  I paid $600 but an easy sale at twice that amount.

However, it actually is lost and not delayed.

It reached Canada.  The building it was last scanned in is shared by CPO and customs.  It made it to the CPO portion of the buidling but not to customs.

It just says "Sent for Further ProcessIng" but customs tells me they did not scan it in.

That also makes no sense to anyone because as the custom's rep told me:  It's not something they'd ever hold for consideration or pay special attention to.

It's an antique nic nac type thingy.

They may find it ................. Maybe it slipped behind some racks somewhere in the building ..............or maybe someone who needed a gift for someone was drawn to it because of the $600 value on the package ......................  but it's lost (or stolen).

[mr.elmwood]

Suggesting it is stolen is irresponsible as you are smearing an entire company. $600 is not a lot of money to them

I doubt it is STOLEN. I do not think it is lost either. It is simply not scanned.

Parcels can take ten days of they can take weeks. Why? Just because. Do your procedural stuff and keep the seller informed.

[i*m-still-here]

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@mr.elmwood wrote:
Suggesting it is stolen is irresponsible as you are smearing an entire company. $600 is not a lot of money to them

I doubt it is STOLEN. I do not think it is lost either. It is simply not scanned.

Parcels can take ten days of they can take weeks. Why? Just because. Do your procedural stuff and keep the seller informed.

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Elmwood:

I'm smearing no one.

This happens so rarely, and that fact............... if anything............ attests to the honesty of the community and not the other way around.

I've been on the phone about this a number of times and so has the seller.

The Feedback we're getting is that it's LOST.    It may yet be found......... but at the moment it's lost.

This is coming from the people at CPO and customs as well.  I went right to the source and spoke with customs in the building it went missing in.

Give me a Break here Elmwood...................   

Irresponsible????   Smearing and Entire Community?????  

You are suggesting that things never get stolen.  Of course items get stolen now and then.  Why pretend otherwise?

I didn't take you for someone so naive or sheltered before your post above.

[pocomocomputing]

Off topic but related.

In the 1960's, my mom received a letter from 10-20 years earlier that had been lost in the mail. It was Christmas and Canada Post had hired extra help to process the Christmas rush in the sorting center. It was all manual back them. One of the extra help was the younger son of a next door neighbor.  While sorting, he dropped a letter and went to pick it up and found several old letters jammed under the work table he was at. One of the letters was the old one to my mom. So he hand delivered it to her when he got home. He took an interest in finding this and looked under the work tables and found many letters jammed under them in nooks and crannies and got them into the mail. Many were years old.

In the 1970's when the old post office was replaced with a modern structure and modern equipment, the dismantling of the old post office turned up many more old letters that were sent on their way.

[i*m-still-here]

Nice Story.................. and something you hear about now and then.

That's probably similar to what happened to my item but it's much bigger than a letter ............. that, or there's a very small possibility it was "you know what."

I always get a little nervous with those declarations out in the open like that especially when shipping to some countries.

In the meantime the 45 day deadline is looming.

[mr.elmwood]

You said:

someone who needed a gift for someone was drawn to it because of the $600 value on the package

You said:

stolen

I said company, not community. You are accusing Canada Post employees of theft. Read what you wrote. Those are irresponsible statements.

"Sheltered". Back off the remarks. I managed an inner city liquor store. I know a lot more about life than the vast majority of people. I know a lot about not making accusations that are non-supported.

Yeah, I get it, you are sitting by the mailbox waiting for a parcel that is not showing up. Anxiety creeps in. Yes, I understand. I have had little parcels, non taxable, take 4-5 weeks. Mail moves as it does.

[bb_cool_stuff]

Ellice & Hargrave Store I imagine ?

[i*m-still-here]

Elmwood.......... I did say those things....................

..............  in the midst of a long thread on this subject about the item being lost I very briefly once and only once suggested that the item may also have been stolen.  

I did not say it WAS stolen.  I said it's gone missing but there are only so many ways an item can go missing.

Maybe it crosses almost everyone's mind, however briefly, when an goes AWOL?

Why so offended?

OK....... so maybe you're not naive, but to suggest that there this type of behavior never exists at the PO is naive.

[i*m-still-here]

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@mr.elmwood wrote:
Suggesting it is stolen is irresponsible as you are smearing an entire company. $600 is not a lot of money to them

I doubt it is STOLEN. I do not think it is lost either. It is simply not scanned.

Parcels can take ten days of they can take weeks. Why? Just because. Do your procedural stuff and keep the seller informed.

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I didn't think is was stolen either.......... but all fingers are pointing in that direction.

The item was re-listed a few hours ago.  The new seller has taken her own photos but used the original description word for word.

It was either delivered to her by mistake or it was stolen at the Montreal custom's hub where the tracking stopped.

The new seller's Postal Code and city are completely different city than mine are.

The chances that this tracked packet was delivered to an ebay seller by mistake and showed up as lost at customs is close to zero......... but still not impossible.

How else did she get my item?

[kh-leslie]

I am locking this topic as a new topic on this subject was created by the OP. Please direct all further replies/posts to the new topic, Insurance Fraud OMG