I`ve had the misfortune to suffer the non-delivery of two items, one in the UK and one from Sweden, and it got me thinking if folks had ever received items long after they`d been written off ??

I've had records go AWOL for up-to 2 months (delivery to UK). One record from USA seemed to have a detour to Germany for some reason. One from Japan never made it here and ended up back with the seller. He relisted it after refunding me. When I said I'd still like to but it for the same price he agreed and used the same packaging as the first time so I knew he was telling the truth.

Yes, things do turn up that are presumed lost in the post. I had one arrive 7 months after I'd given up hope and had got a refund, couldn't track down the seller as he'd closed his eBay account to let him have his money either, so I effectively had a freebie.

It's the Christmas post season so expect everything to be delivered on December 27th or January 2nd. Make sure you stay in the house for the next three weeks otherwise someone will leave a card saying no one was in and your parcel will be returned to sender in the next two hours... Don't give up hope as  packets can take a month or more to arrive.

My dad wrote letters to my gran from Korea in 1952-54, Six of them were delivered in 1963, You shouldn't ever give up hope!

I'm still hoping the rare gospel album I won in october will turn up eventually.

Sorry not a record but three or so years ago I was waiting on a sizeable cheque from a bank. Never arrived. Bank blamed the post and agreed to cancel and redo. This time I went and collected it personally.

 

Shock, horror, several months later the original cheque turned up with the original date and previous day's post mark.

 

So it had been raised but never posted. The postal system blamed but actually the bank's rubbish admin procedures.

 

Heaven knows where it had been sitting for all those months and suddenly resurfaced . . . . . . . . .