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Last week I sold an inexpensive coin. I live in Grafton, WI which is about twenty miles north of Milwaukee. The buyer lives in Brookfield, WI which is about forty miles away, just west of Milwaukee. The coin was mailed on Friday. Today I received an ebay message from the buyer asking if I had sent it to the wrong address because USPS tracking showed it was now in San Francisco, CA. I assured him I had not and sent him the address PayPal sent me. Now, I will admit that's a bit of a side-trip for a forty mile journey. Tracking shows that coin left San Francisco today for parts unknown. I can only hope it is on its way back here. Paul Bulgerin
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Bedrock of the Community
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It will get there. In the meantime, hope it hasn't been Shanghaied at The Barbary Coast. Hope your trading partner sees the funny side of this. I think I posted something on CCF in the last year or two of a tracking adventure but not to this extreme. Good luck!
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02/04/2019 11:42 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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The worst is when you're shipping something a state away and it decides to take a detour through Puerto Rico
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Bedrock of the Community
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Depending on what the tracking shows, it might start "looping" until it is manually fixed. I had a package destined for Colorado (from Texas) and it ended up travelling back and forth between a few cities in California (a bit out of the way!). After a call to USPS Consumer Relations, the very accommodating lady located the package, informed the proper parties, and the package was delivered the very next day in Colorado, somehow.  Keep an eye on the tracking updates. In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Pillar of the Community
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Don't be shocked if it goes to the east coast next.......it'll get there eventually.
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Rest in Peace
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Yes it happened to me a couple of years ago . Tracking said my package was way off the radar in different States other than the State it was shipped from .  I eventually received it . |
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February 18 and the buyer, who lives 40 miles away, still has not received the coin. The last tracking information had it leaving LA on February 9. Nothing since then.
He contacted his local post office last week and I am going to mine to talk to the postmaster tomorrow.
It's only a $2.50 coin, so the comic nature of this tale is not too hard to appreciate. Were it a valuable coin I would have a different opinion on the matter.
Paul Bulgerin
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Pillar of the Community
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The system will eventually spit it out.
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Pillar of the Community
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The story does have a happy ending. After a visit with my local postmaster, who called up a scan of the label and put a search out on it, the coin reappeared in tracking the next day and was delivered two days later.
Paul Bulgerin
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I love when this happens. I had purchased a coin that came from Minnesota, which is where I live. It ended up at the regional facility in Minneapolis, usually it goes to my destination facility after that, but it decided to take a quick hike to Boise IA, and then BACK to Minneapolis. Had a good laugh with that one.
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