What's your worst shipping horror story?

[scooter729]

A unique 1910 Red Sox panoramic, which I won in a major auction many moons ago, was poorly shipped and the glass shattered in transit, resulting in a giant tear.

I got my money back, but it's a shame that had to happen to such an awesome item....

[parkplace33]

Not blaming the seller, but I once got a card one year after they mailed it. It was in a non machineable envelope, my guess it got stored somewhere for a longgggg time.

[Seven]

Purchased a 1953 Bowman Mickey Mantle graded a 2.5 by PSA (still have the old cert somewhere) It was misdelivered, stolen, and put up on ebay again about a state over from me. I was eventually refunded my money, but I still wish I had the card!

[samosa4u]

Like fifteen years ago I had this high-grade 52T Campy sent to me by FedEx from the US. The guy forget to get signature and the idiot driver left it at the wrong house! If that wasn't bad enough, when I phoned FedEx, and they reached out to the driver, he told them that he had the right house! This went on for a few days and then one day the idiot showed up at my house with the package and apologized. Put me through hell!

[skelly423]

Any time you package makes a tinkling sound, it's never good

[vthobby]

Originally Posted by skelly423

Any time you package makes a tinkling sound, it's never good

Sorry about this card. That is hard to look at! ugh

Made me think about Mize a bit and I don't think alot of folks know that he only struck out 524 times in his entire career!

In 2009 Mark Reynolds struck out 223 times!!!!!

Not shipping related but the Mize photo made me think of it! The mind works in mysterious ways!

[Chris-Counts]

It wasn't a baseball item, but a piece of video equipment. I packed it great, but UPS somehow destroyed it. When I filed an insurance claim, they rejected it due to "my poor packaging," but they lost that case in small claims court when I produced receipts and photos showing that I had packaged it at a UPS store, with the help of the store's manager.

[Zach Wheat]

Originally Posted by skelly423

Any time you package makes a tinkling sound, it's never good

How did this get so badly damaged? There must be a story to this....

[jchcollins]

Probably close to 20 years ago at this point, an eBay seller sent me a '55 Bowman Ernie Banks - raw in a PWE, with a yellow sticky note affixed to the card itself. Incredibly - for the condition it was described in - the sticky came right off and it was no worse for the wear.

UPS one time sent me a 1973 Angels Media Guide with Nolan Ryan on it - left on the front porch in heavy rain. Luckily I rescued the package within about 10 minutes of it being delivered - the item inside the packaging had not yet gotten soaked through, but it was well on it's way.

[skelly423]

Originally Posted by Zach Wheat

How did this get so badly damaged? There must be a story to this....

I genuinely don't know. It was intact when it was mailed, and looked like that when it arrived at my door. I can only assume it ran into a chainsaw somewhere in between.