FedEx “Lost” My Gun—Update 5.3.21; 7.3.21

[challer61]

I leave you to yourselves. The are more subtleties to it than your google search lets on. It's why people shouldn't be their own lawyer.

 

[sigp220.45]

Well, that method has certainly worked well for the OP.

 

[scott1970]

Two days ago my friend's rifle was due to arrive at his FFL's office by FedEx. It was updated on the computer by FedEx as delivered, but his FFL had not received it. The driver dropped it off at a residential address nowhere close to the business suite on the delivery address. It was shipped with a signature required, but the driver simply put down "covid" in place of a signature.

A couple of phone calls were made to the cops, and they went to the house and retrieved the rifle which had not been opened. I have not use for FedEx when it comes to guns.

 

[Beemerguy53]

Two days ago my friend's rifle was due to arrive at his FFL's office by FedEx. It was updated on the computer by FedEx as delivered, but his FFL had not received it. The driver dropped it off at a residential address nowhere close to the business suite on the delivery address. It was shipped with a signature required, but the driver simply put down "covid" in place of a signature.

A couple of phone calls were made to the cops, and they went to the house and retrieved the rifle which had not been opened. I have not use for FedEx when it comes to guns.

Last Spring, I ordered 500 rounds of .45 ACP from an online ammo retailer in the Midwest. They shipped it by Fedex. The driver left the box on a table in the lobby of my condo building, where anyone could have taken it, and indicated it had been delivered to the "front door".

A month or so later, I ordered some favorite snacks from Hickory Farms. Because the order included perishable items, they shipped it, with cold packs, via FedEx 2Day. It went out on a Wednesday for Friday delivery...and was delivered the following Tuesday, also to the lobby of my building. I put the box directly into the Dumpster.

Last week, a neighbor who lives in another building in my development brought over a package addressed to me that a FedEx driver left in her building.

I called FedEx about each of these snafus, but was never able to get anyone to return my call.

I have gotten to the point that if I am going to order anything online, I ask the seller if they use FedEx, and if they do, I implore them to ship some other way. I don't know what has happened to that company, but they seem to be a lost cause, at least in my neck of the woods.

 

[CB3]

Update 7.3.21

I received an email this week from a police officer in the Czeck Republic. My snubnose .38 was intercepted by Customs there, addressed to an American living in the CR. He was arrested for international arms trafficking. After declaring he knew nothing about being sent the gun, he was let go while the cops investigated my situation through FedEx. They have destroyed the gun.

The two parties determined a local FEDEX employee had overlabeled my box after opening it and finding the gun inside, sending it to a friend overseas. I don't know what happened to that employee as FEDEX won't tell me.

FEDEX, through their camera systems and digital recording of scanned packages, had to have been able to identify this theft quickly. That they have never given me any of this information shows they have a deeply ingrained CYA mode as a business model. When originally denying my insurance claim to try to make me go away didn't work, they quickly paid and were done with me.

"Oh what a tangled web we weave."

 

[Onomea]

Interesting.. Far out!

Your 5.3.21 update, in the thread title, seems to have been deleted, and I don't recall it. Ah. Found it embedded in your 4.27 post.

 

[CB3]

Interesting.. Far out!

Your 5.3.21 update, in the thread title, seems to have been deleted, and I don't recall it. Ah. Found it embedded in your 4.27 post.

Being tech ignorant, I posted it at the end of the original post, not realizing that it would not pop up as a new post. Here it is:

5.3.21 I received a check today from FedEx for the insured value. Case closed—gun gone. Thank you all for the many helpful posts.

 

[GaryS]

Sorry for the loss of your revolver. Since FedEx paid you back in May, I expect that they knew what happened to it in May.

As to the employee, hopefully the ATF will charge him.

Too bad that the CR destroyed the firearm as they are one of the most firearm friendly nations in Europe. Apparently they learned from the Russian and before that German occupations.

When I ship a firearm anywhere, including back to the manufacturer for work, I cyber stalk the package until I'm sure it's back.

 

[LVSteve]

The chances that FedEx would have paid for the re-importation of the OPs gun are slim to none. He would also have had to suffer the indignity of a large import mark being applied somewhere on the gun. The fact he got a check in May tells me that FedEx knew back then it was on them and their crooked employee.

 

[s&wchad]

Update 7.3.21

I received an email this week from a police officer in the Czeck Republic. My snubnose .38 was intercepted by Customs there, addressed to an American living in the CR. He was arrested for international arms trafficking. After declaring he knew nothing about being sent the gun, he was let go while the cops investigated my situation through FedEx. They have destroyed the gun.

I'm glad to hear that you were reimbursed by FedEx.

I don't believe for a second that the gun has been destroyed. Can you really imagine any law enforcement agency destroying evidence while the investigation is still active, let alone an "International Arms Smuggling" case?

A high ranking Czech official probably has his eye on it.

"Děkujeme!!"