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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TypeCoin971793, post: 3552787, member: 78244&quot;]I’ve had it happen twice. Both were due to putting the wrong labels on the packages. Both times the buyers were willing to make it right (the cost of the coins were luckily quite low).</p><p><br /></p><p>The second time, USPS just happened to temporarily lose one of those coins for a month which screwed absolutely everything up. The end outcome was agreeable to both buyers.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Keeping something that was not intended for you (aka sent in mistake) in the hopes of profiting and ignoring all attempts to have it returned is illegal. It falls under “found money”.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/found-money-what-are-my-legal-obligations-31615" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/found-money-what-are-my-legal-obligations-31615" rel="nofollow">https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/found-money-what-are-my-legal-obligations-31615</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It is different from receiving unsolicited items because those are intentionally sent by a company expecting something in return (as a relevant example, Littleton’s Coins On Approval program). Those are legally interpreted as gifts. But if you receive something due to a company’s/individual’s error, then you are obligated by law to return it; otherwise it is considered theft.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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