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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 25399934, member: 81887&quot;]Today (June 15) I finally received two coins that I won at an auction at the beginning of April.&nbsp; So, about 10 days after the auction&#039;s close, I received a package from the auction firm.&nbsp; I opened the envelope, carefully opened the inner packaging, and... was confused.&nbsp; There were three coins, and they were completely different from what I had won in the auction.&nbsp; (They were 19th century coins, two from Portuguese India and one from Cambodia.&nbsp; Not bad coins, but not what I had won and not really my main collecting interests.)&nbsp; Finally, my brain put together a sensible explanation: The auction company had accidentally sent me someone else&#039;s wins (and presumably sent them mine).&nbsp; So, I emailed what seemed to be the right address at the company with my story, no response after two business days.&nbsp; I then tried another address at the company, and apparently this was the address I should have used, as I received a very speedy response.&nbsp; Yes, they had gotten two shipments mixed up and had already heard from the other unfortunate collector.&nbsp; They emailed me a prepaid shipping label, and I mailed the incorrect coins back to the auction firm.</p><p><br /></p><p>After some more time passed, I received an email from the auction house containing a USPS tracking number for my new, corrected package.&nbsp; I checked every day, watching it travel across the country, until finally it was listed as &quot;Out for Delivery&quot; in my zip code, and I waited to see it &quot;Delivered&quot;.&nbsp; But the package then suddenly made a detour to a nearby location (whose zip code is different by one digit), was marked &quot;Unable to deliver- no forwarding address&quot;, and was then returned to sender.&nbsp; This is the most mysterious step in the whole story- why was the package so close to being correctly delivered to me, but then made this bizarre detour and boomerang back to the shipper?&nbsp; (The auction company has, and had, my correct address on file, and I assume they printed it from that file onto the label instead of hand-writing it and risking making a typo that could result in misdelivery.&nbsp; I am very sure that the problem in this round was due to the post office.)</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I wrote back to the auction house, and they agreed to send the coins yet again, after confirming my address with me.&nbsp; I again eagerly checked the progress online, until today, when- success!&nbsp; The package actually arrived safely in my mailbox, and I have my two coins in hand, and will post them later with full write-ups.&nbsp; (Just briefly, they are a Samanid silver multiple dirham and a bronze of Chinghiz Khan from the rather obscure site of Shafurqan.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, mostly just wanted to vent my frustration at how long it too to get my coins.&nbsp; Has anyone else experienced something like this, particularly if (like my case) it did not involve any international shipping?&nbsp; Any other shipping horror stories (that ended well) you feel like sharing?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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