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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hiddendragon, post: 1081472, member: 25270&quot;]Recently I&#039;ve been trying to avoid spending a lot of money, but I still wanted to work on my coin collection, so I decided to buy some common half dollar and dollar coins on ebay to complete the Whitman folders I have. One of the coins I bought was a 2000 D half dollar, nothing special about it. When I got the shipment, I could tell it seemed too light. I opened the envelope (just a regular letter envelope) and inside was the packing slip with a small plastic bag taped to it with nothing inside. I was confused, so I looked a little closer. I found the plastic bag was slit down one side, and there was a half-dollar sized slit at the bottom of one corner of the envelope. On the packing slip and the envelope, I could see about four or five half-dollar shaped impressions moving steadily in one direction. It seemed pretty clear that the coin had somehow broken free of the plastic bag, worked its way toward an edge, the torn another hole in the envelope and escaped. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I contacted the seller, who thinks the coin was stolen at the post office. He gave me my money back. I don&#039;t know that I agree with him though. It seems hard to believe someone at the post office could have removed the coin like that. I&#039;d think if they were stealing it, they&#039;d just tear it open and discard the rest. It&#039;s almost equally hard to understand how the coin could have escaped on it&#039;s own though. I&#039;m glad it wasn&#039;t a big loss but it was strange either way.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As a side note, since I&#039;ve been buying a lot of coins online in the last month or two, I&#039;d been getting more shipments than usual, and besides this one, I had another coin that never arrived, and a third that showed up in a totally mangled envelope that the post office put in a special see-through envelope with a &quot;we apologize&quot; message on it. I don&#039;t know what to make of the job the post office is doing. Where do these lost packages go?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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