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<p>[QUOTE="jaceravone, post: 385445, member: 9474"](Actually yesterday)</p><p> </p><p>I had mentioned sometime ago on an earlier thread that I had ordered the new British Royal Shield of Arms Base Metal and Silver Proof sets in addition to the UNC set. Well, within a week or two after placing my order, the UNC set was shipped out and I received it in a week or so afterwards. Then the next week, my silver proof set was sent out. After a few weeks, I hadn't receieved it and I called the Royal Mint. They said that I had to wait a month from the date that it was shipped before they could process a claim. </p><p> </p><p>So on Thursday I called and filed a claim. In addition, (I don't know why I didn't do this before) I went down on Friday to my local USPS hub and to see if they had it laying around. (This happened once before with another set I had ordered and they found it) I have to say that the USPS employees spent some time looking around to see if they could find it. They took down my name, address and phone number. Saturday when I got back from work, a package lay on my doorstep. I knew exactly what it was. It was delieved wrapped in grey plastic and had a label on it from the USPS Recovery Center in Georgia. </p><p> </p><p>The silver set was in its box, which was then placed into a Royal Mint grey outter box, then placed into a cardboard box. The cardboard box had a Royal Mint sticker on it, but no address label. Nothing was damaged and I was extremely happy. I am guessing that the original plastic envelope that the Royal Mint uses to mail their stuff out was damaged and the USPS had to rewrap it.</p><p> </p><p>I don't know if me going to down to the post office had anything to do with it turning up or was it a coincidence? I don't know why I shared all of this, but let's just say it was therapeutic! :goofer:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jaceravone, post: 385445, member: 9474"](Actually yesterday) I had mentioned sometime ago on an earlier thread that I had ordered the new British Royal Shield of Arms Base Metal and Silver Proof sets in addition to the UNC set. Well, within a week or two after placing my order, the UNC set was shipped out and I received it in a week or so afterwards. Then the next week, my silver proof set was sent out. After a few weeks, I hadn't receieved it and I called the Royal Mint. They said that I had to wait a month from the date that it was shipped before they could process a claim. So on Thursday I called and filed a claim. In addition, (I don't know why I didn't do this before) I went down on Friday to my local USPS hub and to see if they had it laying around. (This happened once before with another set I had ordered and they found it) I have to say that the USPS employees spent some time looking around to see if they could find it. They took down my name, address and phone number. Saturday when I got back from work, a package lay on my doorstep. I knew exactly what it was. It was delieved wrapped in grey plastic and had a label on it from the USPS Recovery Center in Georgia. The silver set was in its box, which was then placed into a Royal Mint grey outter box, then placed into a cardboard box. The cardboard box had a Royal Mint sticker on it, but no address label. Nothing was damaged and I was extremely happy. I am guessing that the original plastic envelope that the Royal Mint uses to mail their stuff out was damaged and the USPS had to rewrap it. I don't know if me going to down to the post office had anything to do with it turning up or was it a coincidence? I don't know why I shared all of this, but let's just say it was therapeutic! :goofer:[/QUOTE]
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