Support NeoGAF

[kumanoki]

I mailed home all of my PS1 games in one big box. It cost me about seventy dollars to send them by sea mail from Japan, but now they are on their way home. It'll take a month and a half for them to reach Christy's parents' house.

Although I feel good for sending our stuff home early, I still feel like I'm never going to see my games again.

I keep imagining these scenarios where some postal employee pops open the box to check it for contraband and yoinks a handful of my babies. Can postal employees get away with that? Does the postal service have some kind of monitoring system for in-house theft? Wouldn't that be a federal offense, as well? So that means that it might be the FBI. Does the FBI investigate U.S. postal service theft? Are there agents that just investigate shit like that?

"Don't toy with me, Mr. Kinkaide. Your name is on my list. Stealing from a post office is a federal offense, you know. It wouldn't be good at all for anyone involved if you were sitting in a federal penitentiary, would it, Mr. Kinkaide? Now I have it on good authority...no, the best authority, that the package in question was routed through this branch. Strangely, though, it didn't make it any farther than that. Can you explain that, Mr. Kinkaide? Can you?"

 

[demi]

I hope I get your package! What was your name again?

 

[BigJonsson]

The most likely scenario is the box gets damaged

 

[kumanoki]

The most likely scenario is the box gets damaged

That is, in fact, what happened when they were shipped to us in the first place.
I had packed my games in a Case Logic and brought them with me, but I wanted the jewel cases as well, so I packed them in with a box of clothes and other items, using those softer things as buffer. My mother-in-law decides that the box is too heavy, so she re-packs it into two separate packages, one with clothes, the other with my jewel cases and absolutely no packing material. A month later, I get the Great Big Box O' Shattered Plastic. I was lucky enough to find replacement jewelcases for a lot of my games. (Do you know how hard it is to find double-sided cases?) I never wanted a divorce from my wife's family so much in my life. It was just luck that I had the foresight to take the games separately.

 

[RaymondCarver]

I'm glad you at least got them. I did something simmilar, and it never made it to its destination. The post said the package was probably damaged and ended up in a 'damaged' bin somewhere along the way.

 

[kumanoki]

Funny what the post office considers 'damaged'.

We often recieve boxes that are literally falling apart. The postal service has had to tape some of them together to keep our items from falling out. Occasionally, we'll get a box that has been opened for security reasons, and then sent along without being adequately re-sealed.