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After reading that article I started reading some of the comments at the bottom. I thought this joke someone posted was pretty funny Quote:Postal worker comes across letter addressed to God, with no other address. Opens letter, and finds a note to God from old woman who desperately needs $100. Passes it around the office and takes a collection for her, netting $80. They send it off to her. A few weeks later, lo!, another message addressed to God. Again, the clerk opens the letter to read: Dear God. Thank you so much for answering my letter. I really needed that money. P.S. I thought you might like to know that those  s at the post office stole $20! |
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How does one trust anyone these days..  |
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at least he made it easy by taking his stolen goods home with him...
too bad there isn't a "stupidity charge" that could be added to the list of things he will be arraigned for.
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Now I like UPS even less. Being a manager at a UPS hub, let me give you a couple of stats. UPS has 424,000 employees. We deliver 4.3 billion packages per year, 16.9 million daily. We delivered 1/2 billion packages over the Christmas holiday season alone. The anti-theft measures and anti-theft education the company takes are extensive. Unfortunately, with 424,000 employees, human nature dictates, there are going to be a couple of bad apples. Stealing is one thing, getting away with it is entirely a different thing. The journey of every package is meticulously documented.  |
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He could have just replaced them with fake bars and the shipper would get all the heat.
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Now I like UPS even less. Really? I take one person at a time..not the entire company. This guy is out of a carrer and hopefully going to jail. That's good enough for me. If he had a family, especially children, that's the part I don't like. Quote:
Unfortunately, with 424,000 employees, human nature dictates, there are going to be a couple of bad apples. That's with any career or job. swcoin.ecrater.com
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Probably caught him because of how saggy his pants were do to the weight of the bars.
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From gold bars to iron ones ...
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too bad there isn't a "stupidity charge" that could be added to the list of things he will be arraigned for. Well fortunately being stupid isn't illegal. If it was we would need a LOT more prisons and there would be no way those few on the outside could produce enough to support those on the inside |
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Now we know how that ups guy on "king of queens" had Leah Remeny for a wife  |
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This is one of the main causes of anxiety in my life lately. Every time I'm waiting for a delivery, I'm wondering if someone's going to rifle through my mailbox or the driver is just going to help himself to my bullion. Even though I always get my package in the end, I still get anxious because of stories like this.
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Welcome to the CCF, Ed52151. I share your concern, and that's the principal reason that I utilize a PO box. Some years ago, I won a rare coin in a Heritage auction. I was out-of-state at the time, so I asked Heritage by phone to ship it to the address where I was staying. Instead, they shipped it by UPS to my home, 1300 miles away. When I realized what they'd done, I called upon a buddy to check my front porch. He found the package sitting in a foot of snow ... western NY! Now, every time I look at that coin, one of my personal favorites, I recall that fiasco.
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Hiya Ed2151 and  There's always the human element that you have to deal with and I feel your pain. No matter how many precautions the bullion dealers take, *someone* outside of the organization knows what the shipment is. It's unlikely the delivery guy (and those guys make some GOOD money as it is - I can't imagine them risking their jobs for something like that) knows. But the pickup guy? Or the shipping room clerk? At least with shipping today you have tracking #'s and guarantees and such. But for priceless, unique, irreplaceable coins, even if you have insurance, the coin can't be replaced. Ugh... it's a risk. And yes, every time I order bullion, I wonder if it's going to make it to my mailbox and stay there. It has to date.... |
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