He wants his money back
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I tend to agree with you on this. I've shipped stuff for people, but only people I know really well and can trust.
This kind of reminds me of a couple of years ago when I was standing outside of a ball park waiting to go in. A young guy walked up to me and told me he lost his cell phone. He asked if he could borrow mine to call his friend. I told him no. He walked away while pulling a cell phone out of his pocket to make a call.
There are scammers everywhere.
This kind of reminds me of a couple of years ago when I was standing outside of a ball park waiting to go in. A young guy walked up to me and told me he lost his cell phone. He asked if he could borrow mine to call his friend. I told him no. He walked away while pulling a cell phone out of his pocket to make a call.
There are scammers everywhere.
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ColbyBruce
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He messaged me today and asked how he could get his boxes back. He also asked for my new address and phone number. I told him to visit his local Postmaster. I told him he had no use for my contact info.
He should not of insisted the post-op seller ship these boxes and the seller shouldn't of agreed to it. I learned a good bit myself.
He should not of insisted the post-op seller ship these boxes and the seller shouldn't of agreed to it. I learned a good bit myself.
OMCHamlin
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Yeah, this.
CCHGN
Member
WOW this is VERY strange: You used to live at address X and had a neighbor. You BOTH moved to Y and Z addresses. HE made a deal with a 3rd party and wanted you to pick up Parcel A and mail it to him, being that you're a Postal Worker( Mail Man), former neighbor and "friend". SO, being that you're the nice guy that you are (and you ARE a Mail man and that's what you do), that he's older and had Heart bypass surgery and for "old times sake", you agreed to go to 3rd party, pick up Parcel A and mail it to former X neighbor at address Z. He was shorted and sent it back to you, but to address X.
Hmmm, I know, Hindsight is 20/20 and armchair Quarterbacking is lame, BUT I wonder why he just couldn't have the Parcel mailed straight from 3rd party? Also, he HAS to know that because he didn't ask you for your new address, BEFORE he returned the parcel, that's on him. So I wonder what happened to the Parcel?
Well, kudos to you for trying to be a good person. I hope that doesn't change you. I'm the same way, I like to do things for people, even if they don't reciprocate( read that, shaft you). We that are like that, don't do things for people, with the expectation of a reward from them. IF you expect that, you will be disappointed, most of the time. Nope, we do it for a much higher reason.
IF you DO retrieve the Parcel and the 2 missing boxes and mail them to him, you have went WAY above and beyond what normal folks would do, but you're not normal, are you? YOU are extraordinary. I applied for Postal Worker, right after I got out of the USMC, took a class on taking the test, then took the test, but never heard back and never looked back. I couldn't do what y'all do. Thank you for your service.
CCHGN
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Btw, I have a similar story, True story: My DW gave me a Kahr .40S&W pistol as a gift (i'd never had one) and I went onto the Kahr site and mentioned that I like Glaser Safety Slugs, but NO ONE in my area, had any. A member( complete stranger), from Texas, contacted me, that a LGS had several boxes of them, on a Clearance table, for half off. He gave me the contact info and I contacted the LGS and sure enough, they had 7 boxes and I could have them, at half off, if I bought all 7 boxes. I couldn't buy then fast enough. The only hitch is, he wouldn't ship them to me. So the dude on the Site said that if they didn't, that he would, so he did. It cost $11 to ship (he took them to a place and they wouldn't ship it, but he found a UPS driver out and about and flagged him down and gave it to him and he shipped it). I sent him back $30.
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ColbyBruce
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There are four employees at the office that serviced my former address who know I moved and retired. I started with them in 1987 at another location. There is a small chance they might notice that package and try to get it to me.
CCHGN
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Keep up your good spirits my man, don't sweat the stuff that's completely out of your control. There's plenty of blame to go around, but you are blameless. HE should have listed what he was expecting and KNEW your current address and HE should have made sure the SHE knew what was listed, so then she ( and you) would have known the 2 boxes were missing, but he didn't and she didn't and you got caught in the middle , trying to do the right thing.
No bother, the Sun comes up today and goes down tonight and it will come up tomorrow and the World turns and we're spinning at 1000mph and circling the Sun at 67,000 mph and the Milky Way Galaxy hurtling through Space at 1.3 MILLION MPH, that little thang is but a blip on the scope of things....lol
Jack Flash
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Two guys agreed on the deal.
Then the seller (who is so incapacitated he can't even put the items in one box or write a list of the boxes involved, but allows them to be scattered around in the car) needs his wife (who sounds pretty negligent herself) to take the boxes to an uninvolved friend to mail them to the purchaser (who sounds like a real jerk who speaks and acts without waiting for the facts to come in). What could go wrong?
As you add more people to the mix the chance for problems increases exponentially. Too many links in the chain, especially when at least two of them don't even know the specifics of the deal.
I've learned to say something to stay out of these three-way / four-way deals:
Leave me out of it.
Then the seller (who is so incapacitated he can't even put the items in one box or write a list of the boxes involved, but allows them to be scattered around in the car) needs his wife (who sounds pretty negligent herself) to take the boxes to an uninvolved friend to mail them to the purchaser (who sounds like a real jerk who speaks and acts without waiting for the facts to come in). What could go wrong?
As you add more people to the mix the chance for problems increases exponentially. Too many links in the chain, especially when at least two of them don't even know the specifics of the deal.
I've learned to say something to stay out of these three-way / four-way deals:
Leave me out of it.
Warning - thread drift. 
"True story: My DW gave me..."
What is a DW? Divorced Wife? Drunk Wombat? Daughter's Wiffleball?
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What is a DW? Divorced Wife? Drunk Wombat? Daughter's Wiffleball?
Weimar
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very irritating, as I hate to be in the middle also
I have 'helped' out several people and many times it bites you in the rear...
Have never understood why folks can't help themselves, but will ask others to do so FOR them?
I would say, let it go - that said, I am still irritated at a Sergeant I knew in the army, about 35 yrs ago! Who bought a American Arms (one of those small 22 lr revolvers) for $100 and he paid me $50 and never paid me the 2nd $50! I try to ignore it, but it always irritates me
I have 'helped' out several people and many times it bites you in the rear...
Have never understood why folks can't help themselves, but will ask others to do so FOR them?
I would say, let it go - that said, I am still irritated at a Sergeant I knew in the army, about 35 yrs ago! Who bought a American Arms (one of those small 22 lr revolvers) for $100 and he paid me $50 and never paid me the 2nd $50! I try to ignore it, but it always irritates me
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Were there any Russians involved in this?
jjcobra
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I think it is DW = Darling wife, that's how I see it.
keith44spl
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I try my best to shy away from those kinda deals....
Don't want to wind up the third leg on a purty shaky stool from the get go.
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Don't want to wind up the third leg on a purty shaky stool from the get go.
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$20 to be rid of a jerk. Not a bad deal. You got the better end and he's going to be a jerk for a long time.
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ColbyBruce
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Not directly, though the seller's wife is descended from Russian Jews who immigrated to Canada several generations ago.
Do this and you'll be ahead in the game. To much running around returning to seller or sending to seller.
You learned a lesson and can still come out ahead.
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ColbyBruce
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Well, this morning I ran into the seller's wife as I walked out of PT. She was furious, as I had not answered multiple emails from her husband. I rarely use that email, so I had not noticed. In those emails the seller asks for, then demands, his receipt for mailing the boxes off to the buyer. The buyer has threatened to take him to small claims court.
After reading the emails I go into the wife's office and remind her I shipped the boxes on my time and money, which is why her husband does not have a receipt. The receipt is mine and I refuse to part with it, since the buyer might come after me as well. She was cussing like a sailor when I left.
After reading the emails I go into the wife's office and remind her I shipped the boxes on my time and money, which is why her husband does not have a receipt. The receipt is mine and I refuse to part with it, since the buyer might come after me as well. She was cussing like a sailor when I left.
