UPS loses family's $846,000 inheritance

cbc.ca ^ | December 14, 2017 | John Lancaster

[Still Thinking]

You should probably hand carry checks for $800K.

[Ingtar]

If they insured it for the proper value, they would have no problem. Sending a document that way which pays the bearer is as dangerous as letting a TSA agent see it.

[CMailBag]

If it’s Brown, flush it.

[minnesota_bound]

Transfer the money electronic in seconds.
I do that on occasion to a relative. 3 day delivery for free or $15 for right away.

[sharkhawk]

Ups won’t ship something worth 800,000 for 32 bucks. If they had insurance than yes UPS would be liable, but not for a normal envelope

[Sivad]

Hang on. Let me check my front porch. I’ll check
back with you.....maybe.

[wildandcrazyrussian]

I agree totally! UPS lost an important legal document last month that was specifically sent using express service instead of “ground”. Their own records show it was scanned in (by barcode) on three separate occasions within hours of dropoff — and then it disappeared inside their regional headquarters and has never shown up yet in a month. I will never use UPS for anything important again.

[Crucial]

I think I would have driven 440 km for $846,000.

[snuffy smiff]

I used to live in the tiny little "town" of Knoxville, Georgia. It is so small it does not have a single red light, just a stop sign at the only 4 way intersection. The description doesn't really matter but the zip code cannot possibly be anywhere NEAR to the one that the city of Knoxville, Tennessee has...

Care to guess which particular city two-thirds of my packages went to first when shipped via fedex?

[GingisK]

They didn’t “lose it”. Someone just past the X-ray station took it of the conveyor and out to his personal vehicle.

[Freedom4US]

I cashed in and deposited a passle of United States Savings Bonds, I-Bonds, and as an aside the teller claimed there would be a “hold” on some of the funds. LOL! Kinda sketchy ya know, the US Treasury... jeeze louise, people are so idiotic these days. So I cashed them to cash, you know, pieces of paper with dead presidents on them, and then made the deposit. There is no “hold” on cash, I trust.

[Freedom4US]

1. Wire Transfer - why not?

2. If someone for some bizarre reason must send a negotiable instrument through the mail, then it needs to be insured for $846,xxx right? I betcha UPS handles things a bit different in that situation.

3. Attorneys don’t always have a good reputation, but estate planning and that kind of thing, they can save a LOT of grief. With that kind of money involved I guarantee a sharp guy or gal would have said “No, uh-uh, we’re not doing it that way.”

[Kickass Conservative]

Two words, Wire Transfer.

[TheConservativeParty]

A wire transfer between the issuing bank and the recipient’s bank would seem to have been the safe way to do this.

[jy8z]

What can Brown do TO you?...................

I was expecting a delivery from UPS one day. I received a text message that the package had been delivered. It wasn't delivered to me. I called and questioned them. They insisted it had been delivered to someone at least close to me. I asked them to send the driver back out to retrieve it and bring to me. A supervisor told me, a disabled senior citizen that it was up to me to go and ask my neighbors if they had it. This is a rural area with houses spread out for miles.
This what they did to me.

[George from New England]

Hey don’t blame UPS, can you say UNION — Teamsters ?

[Bikkuri]

Being that they can’t even spell correctly, that may have what added to the confusion ;^)

[Osage Orange]

Just cancel the check...and issue a new one.

[trebb]

A UPS employee stole it......probably then figured out there was no safe way to actually cash it.