Package mailed October 2006 returned to me today

Let's just say I never expected that! Unopened and with undamaged coin still inside.
Wow...Just Wow.

Now I'm wondering about that 1880 Morgan that got lost in 2008.

Anyone else have this happen?

ps. Original purchase price was refunded to buyer no questions asked.

 

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Lucky!

Which coin?

 

I wish this would happen. I have a few multi-hundred dollar coins floating around out there somewhere!

 

WOW, nearly eight years! How can a package sit in any one of their facilities for that long and before someone notices it?

 

Ha ha ha....and THERE is your screenplay.

 

... On an island with Tom Hanks and Wilson the volleyball...

 

Hey, the USPS is still delivering mail sent during WWII. Sitting since 2008 isn't too bad now, is it?

 

recently I posted a coin sold on ebay--uk to usa.month later advised not received,gave full refund.next day had email from a gent in Ireland,stated his aunt lives in the same town as me,sent his children birthday cards plus gift which arrived letter opened inside birthday cards gift plus my coin and consignment note-no envelope---being a gent he posted to usa for me---explain that one

 

I had a package disappear for 18 months or so.

Magically appeared.

But, yours may be the recent record

 

The mailboxes were recently replaced in my building. When the old, tilt-out boxes (tilting out so the mail delivery is easier) several pieces of mail from 1978 were discovered in between the boxes and the wall. The mail was returned to the sender as the recipient had moved many decades ago. There are all kinds of reasons mail disappears for a long time and not all is inside the post office!

 

Not a package but I know the record for a piece of mail being lost and then later delivered is over 100 years. And like rick said every so often mail sent during WWII is still being found and delivered.

 

I'm floored!

 

Maybe there was another Newman and they just now found his stash.
Hopefully it was a coin that went up in value since then and not the opposite.

 

Actually, it was a Minnesota quarter DDR that was very hot at the time, not so much now. I'm going to keep it, in the original envelope, for the coolness factor.

 

As someone who works in shipping where carriers such as UPS and FEDEX are big customers, I can tell you if packages were in a container/trailer that were involved in an accident, such as with my job a derailment, and it involved property damage and/or loss of life, they'll sit in that container until all legal proceedings have taken place, which could be years. I imagine the same could happen in trucks. It may have sat in a container in a lot awaiting release. Just a theory based on what I know.

 

As someone who works in shipping where carriers such as UPS and FEDEX are big customers, I can tell you if packages were in a container/trailer that were involved in an accident, such as with my job a derailment, and it involved property damage and/or loss of life, they'll sit in that container until all legal proceedings have taken place, which could be years. I imagine the same could happen in trucks. It may have sat in a container in a lot awaiting release. Just a theory based on what I know.

 

Define swift?

 

Now we're getting the big picture. I don't blame them for returning it.