Legal question

IMHO, the "wrong thing" would be to adopt a "finders-keepers" attitude about it, which is clearly NOT what you are doing, so PLEASE don't get the idea I was castigating you when I used that quotation.

It's framed and hung on my office wall and I just smile and point to it when something gets a little screwed up between us and a customer and someone starts saying, "Let's keep quiet about it and hope they don't notice, what they don't know won't hurt them."

As a matter of fact I did. I called a detective on our town's police department whom I've known for about 20 years, told him about it and what I'd done and faxed him all the paperwork I'd accumulated. I never heard anything further about it and I expect that since the police don't have unlimited resources they have to prioritize and use what they have for more serious matters.

Sure, it would have been nice if that detective called me up and said, "Leave the next package where UPS drops it, we're staking out the house next to you 24/7 and hope to grab whoever sneaks over to take it in the dead of night." But I don't live in a dream world 'yknow.

I think the tack I took at least saved the seller's from totally losing their merchandise, they just got stuck shipping the stuff out and back.

Jeff

is that a miss print you typed SEMI

I came home and checked it.

It was a envelope of harbor freight coupons and a copy of an invoice, not a catalog.

Here's the rub: the invoice is for stuff shipped to ME in March. Swivel air hoses, air angle grinder etc.

Some more puzzling facts:

- I received that shipment very long time ago

- It was shipped from HF via UPS

- The Suzuki motor arrived via Fedex

WTF

i

I don't think you owe FedEx anything at this point either, but the engine does not belong to FedEx. It belongs to some unknown person that you've been diligently trying to identify. If and when you come to a dead end trying to locate the owner yourself, to my way of thinking, the proper thing is to return the engine to FedEx and let them try.

The fact that you're understandably annoyed with some flunky at FedEx doesn't strengthen your claim to the engine. I *don't* think you're obliged to go to great lengths to return the engine, but if you can't ID the owner yourself, the next best chance of getting it where it's supposed to be lies with FedEx. A call to someone who gives a shit at FedEx requires less effort on your part than you've made so far searching for the owner yourself.

Ned Simmons

You might want to visit the various credit bureaus, and check to see if you're being identity-thefted.

"(snip)

Ig, it's obvious. The HF invoice was stuck to the bottom of the 5 hp three-phase motor that went to the battery-powered motorcycle guy. (You dropped it when you used the angle grinder to cut off the shaft of the RPC motor). This 4-cyl Suzuki engine is the one he removed to make room for the

5 hp motor and batteries. You are to hook the Suzuki up to the pallet jack so you can clear out the garage more efficiently. The shipper chose FedEx because he absolutely, positively had to get it out of his garage overnite. (After that, he didn't care about ever seeing it again; hence no return address.) After garage clean-out (yours) you are to mount the Suzuki to the Quincy air compressor (Quizuki? Suzincy?) for more efficient rust removal of future acquisitions.

There will be future acquisitions, won't there?

"Chip" in Columbus

Probably at the instructions of a lawyer - After all, being in posession of a FULLY version of the item in question would be rather incriminating if one didn't have the correct paperwork in hand, doncha know... :)

Never mind the fact that saying so would disrupt the use of the "Izzat thing a semi- or full-auto? Idunno... Why don't you come find out first hand?" strategy.

ROTFLMAO

i

Postal regs says it is yours. But this is Fed ex. Best talk to legal and talk to Fed ex. Or transfer it to the Police... At least talk to the local D.A. - free legal for a question or so.

Martin Martin Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH, NRA Life NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder

Ignoramus3242 wrote:

Is it TO you ? or an address which is yours... but a typo...

Maybe there is a shop looking for it to rebuild a cycle... Like transmissions - getting a second hand one - it comes in to the wrong shop ?

Martin Martin Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH, NRA Life NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder

Ignoramus3242 wrote:

Barring the scenario given by another poster I see a few possibilities here. But the one that pops to mind as most likely is. You accidentally used the invoice as packing material on something you shipped sometime. Thus one of your previous customers had it and it ended up stuck to the engine.

I also imagine that it's the reason that Fedex put you address on the engine when the original address got lost.

Wayne Cook Shamrock, TX

I think the best answer would be to pack it up, don't put your address on it and send it to me. LLB

Ned and all, If you sent an engine off via fedEx and it didn't get where it was going what would you do? I imagine that the person that got this engine will be getting a call from FedEx trying to locate the package and avoid paying the insurance.

LB

I've never shipped an engine, though I've received a couple Honda S90 engines.

OTOH, I send out about 4 FedEx shipments a day and have been for the last 8 years. That's about 8000 shipments. FedEx has lost 2 of them. In both cases the shipments were insured, we notified FedEx and sent them a copy of the invoice and they sent us a check. To our knowledge, the shipments were never found.

I think I've just talked myself into self-insuring our FedEx shipments (:

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:22:11 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, granpaw quickly quoth:

Our local paper listed a 59 year old woman in serious condition after a motorcycle accident yesterday. She was riding her '98 Harley.

Not your usual biker, eh?

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IIRC, they are insured for $100.00 by default as part of the basic shipping price.

Jon

True, but virtually all of our shipments are valued at over $100. About $400 would be the average.

That's it, NCIC. That's th' acronym I couldn't remember when I called th' State Patrol on that H-D with no paperwork.

Here's a url to them:

Snarl