Bought a few dimes from an eBay seller in Texas, shipping to Syracuse NY. I didn’t notice the auction ended 6 days later on a 1961 dime BU in a capsule. I bid $2.25, 74c shipping. Needed 1 capsule for a nice Mercury error coin I have. Didn’t want to wait for the group I already won, I decided to pay. Didn’t know if I’d even win 5 days out. So my package arrived today. Opened up, no coin, no capsule. A 1 1/2” slit on the non flap end of the envelope was surgically cut to access the contents. The flip was cut just enough to remove the capsule A lot of work for what turned out to be a $3 coin. But radioactive if the Postal Inspectors find you holding it I feel bad for them, but not that bad I’m buying another coin from the same seller. Just to watch the trail it takes Pics to follow
What pain in the side. I know it is a $3 coin, but you get excited with the purchase. Then you eagerly wait for the package, then nothing. So sorry.
I'm wondering if the package went thru one of the sorting machines and the rollers forced the coin out of the package.
This is quite feasible. Sorting machinery does not like more than paper in envelopes. One time I sent an elongated cent to a friend in a regular-type envelope; the envelope was delivered torn and the cent was nowhere to be found. Similarly, a friend recently sent a flash drive through the mail in a regular envelope. The envelope was delivered torn and open with the flash drive lost and nowhere to be found. They cost more but losses like these rarely happen when non-machinable bubble mailers are used.
Sorry to hear this happened to you. Be thankful it was an inexpensive coin. I did the best I could from your photos and it looks to me like it was processed by a machine. Again, sorry this happened.
Very true. I always have to use a padded mailer to send keys back to people I work for. Those sorting machines have no conscience. james
Those sorting machines have a quarter inch thick steel plate at the first turn. That steel plate stops all of the objects that fly out of paper envelopes from hurting someone. You should see a key after it’s goes past the first of many rollers.
Yeah, going to have to go with "not malice but stupidity" here. You don't send something like a coin in a capsule in a machinable envelope. (Thinking of the time Dad decided to send me an Allen wrench in a regular envelope. I got a regular envelope with tread marks and a hole in one end.)
Like I said, that Allen wrench shot out of that envelope like a bullet out of a gun. I used to work for the post office and I was given a tour of the sorting facility an hour away from my office. You should hear the sound when any piece of metal hits that quarter inch steel plate.
Yeah, I think it was you who reassured me that the sorting machinery would have had no trouble standing up to a little high-velocity Allen wrench.
At least you got the empty package. I've had no less than 5 packages from USPS "lost" in the past 12 months. It's infuriating because I really got great deals on them.
