What's your worst shipping horror story?

[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.

[drmiraculous]

You had me at "Fed Ex".

I had a driver drop my item off at the wrong place, insisted it was the right place as addressed, then told me said item was irretrievable. Two weeks later it was dropped on my front porch with no warning or explanation while I was working my way thru the case claim with their own "investigation team". Now I often ask senders to use ANYTHING but Fed Ex and both I and my local Fed Ex driver are happier.

[bmattioli]

I have been receiving items through the mail since 1981 even for years while stationed Overseas and not one bad experience.. Must be over thousands of transactions. NO JINX!!

[Eric72]

This is not related to sports cards; however, it is the experience that stands out most in my mind.

My employer sent a batch of event invites out one day. We got one back, marked "Return to Sender" a few years later.

[ClementeFanOh]

drmiraculous- Spot on regarding Fedex. I have had more bad experiences
with that company than all others combined. I vowed to bang on them
whenever possible after another horrible experience several years ago, so
I'm keeping that promise. Fedex are:

1) tone deaf to the needs of the customer
2) utterly worthless over the phone
3) the only delivery company I know, that is disinterested in the actual
delivery of packages.

Fedex are so bad that, if a person insists on using them, I turn down the
transaction. Utter garbage.

Trent King

[Musashi]

Not cards but:

Large order of office and shipping supplies that was in multiple boxes got delivered to three different addresses. One of them was ours, the other two were fortunately honest neighbors