I have had two small meteorite mailings disappear in the last few months. Both were sent via the USPS. One was a purchase and the seller was kind enough to offer a refund. I offered to split the loss and it was done. The other was a gift that never arrived. Not sure if it really got sent tho...
I can understand someone ID-ing a large shipment like you lost as valuable, but why would someone, or how would someone know a small package contained a chondrite? Maybe the USPS is simply falling apart. Either that or someone is running an x-ray machine for them and using it for their own gains. I hope you find your missing shipment. What you have 'lost' is a huge investment - at least to me it would be. Good luck! Gary On 8 Dec 2006 at 20:04, Michael Farmer wrote: > I need to report that a shipment from the Munich show > has been lost/stolen. > Jim Strope and I shipped via UPS Supply Chain > Solutions a large Muonionalusta weighing 174 kilograms > and a large Gibeon, highly sculptured, weighing 36 > kilograms. It also contained some kilos of chondrites. > The shipment has been lost for a month. It seems to > have made it to Los Angeles via United Airlines, and > simply disappeared after that. We are told that it is > likely simply buried in the United Airlines bonded > cargo warehouse and may be found soon, but on the off > chance that this shipment was stolen, we must make > public the weights of the meteorites. > If anyone has been offered any meteorites of these > weights, please notify myself of Jim Strope as I will > be in Japan until Dec 19th. It seems that shipments of > this type have been stolen before. Let this be a > warning to anyone shipping material like this. It CAN > BE LOST/STOLEN even when weighing over 500 pounds! > INSURE YOUR SHIPMENTS. > > Michael Farmer > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. > Ask your question on www.Answers.yahoo.com > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
