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<p>[QUOTE="NOS, post: 7412026, member: 2098"]The good news is it's possible the coin and note will still turn up. March 26th is not all that long ago. In 2005 I bought a collectible $10 note on eBay. I waited and waited and waited for it to arrive. After around 18 or so days I declared to myself the note had been pilfered and considered it lost. Well it arrived approximately 30 days after it had been sent. The envelope was fully intact and postmarked from the day the seller said it was sent.</p><p><br /></p><p>More recently on this forum there was a very expensive shipment of notes that had been sent from the UK to be graded in the States. The package did not show up in the tracking system beyond its being initially received at the post office the notes were sent from in the UK.</p><p><br /></p><p>For sure it seemed likely the notes were pilfered by a local employee of Royal Mail. Well some four months later the package, which was being sent to a TPG in the Eastern U.S., turned up on tracking in Los Angeles and eventually made it to its destination back east.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="NOS, post: 7412026, member: 2098"]The good news is it's possible the coin and note will still turn up. March 26th is not all that long ago. In 2005 I bought a collectible $10 note on eBay. I waited and waited and waited for it to arrive. After around 18 or so days I declared to myself the note had been pilfered and considered it lost. Well it arrived approximately 30 days after it had been sent. The envelope was fully intact and postmarked from the day the seller said it was sent. More recently on this forum there was a very expensive shipment of notes that had been sent from the UK to be graded in the States. The package did not show up in the tracking system beyond its being initially received at the post office the notes were sent from in the UK. For sure it seemed likely the notes were pilfered by a local employee of Royal Mail. Well some four months later the package, which was being sent to a TPG in the Eastern U.S., turned up on tracking in Los Angeles and eventually made it to its destination back east.[/QUOTE]
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