My new LOST Olympic Arms AR

[ltcboy]

On 30 March FFL in Texas shipped my new Olympic Arms AR via UPS ground. Was due to be delivered on 02 April. Shipped from Galveston and was tracked all the way up to the main CACHE hub. The CACHE hub is the largest plant UPS has in the world. It is located in a Chicago suburb called Willow SPrings, IL. I live about 10 minutes away.

Now I worked for UPS from 1987 til 1995 as an unloader and then a supervisor. I know all the crap that happens there. This hub employs over 4500 part time workers processing packages. The turn over rate is about 40-50%. This hub actually busses in inmates on work release programs, and excuse my language, all the gangbangers from every sh**hole neighbor hood in Chicago and all the way out to Joliet to work there.

The reason I tell you this is because the package has been determined to be lost. It was never delivered as it was supposed to be done on 02 April. It was last tracked and accepted at the Willow SPrings CACHE hub. Now my FFL has to put a claim in to UPS and I have to wait AGAIN to get another Oly Arms Ar. He siad it could take 2 weeks, 2 months or 4 months. I am really ****ed, but there is nothing that can be done.

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[Dan In Indiana]

Remember why UPS will not ship handguns any more? Their employees kept stealing them!

[ClaudeH]

Mike,

Has UPS acknowledged yet that this is a case for the BATF? Has anyone brought them into it?

When FedEx lost a rifle of mine at the Gary, IN hub, my insistince that it was going to be brought to the attention of the BATF motivated them to find the package in about two hours.

It would be quite helpful if we could just segregate the underclass from the working class instead of mixing with them at every turn. Maybe by making a penal colony out of Massachusetts or something.

By the way, I lived in Willow Springs about the time they were shutting down the Fisher Body plant in anticipation of building the UPS hub. They bulldozed some history in the process. Did you ever notice the Indian grain or root grinding rock that used to sit just north of the south entrance? That old house that stood way above the ground on the west side of the road at the entrance to the Forest Preserve was a real antique too.

(Darn it, now I can't stop.) Did you ever see the big painting on the wall of the old village hall that showed old Willow Springs apparently looking west along a dirt road version of Archer? There were Indians walking into town in the distance. Have you ever discovered the unexplained shooting complex in the brush between the canals and east of Rowell Chemical? It had a skeet field, a couple of high power firing points (firing straight east towards town!) a fishing pond and a diner. I've never met anyone that could remember it being there or what it was for. I think it might have been a recreational facility for the guards and scientists at Red Gate Woods to give them a way to pass their time without mixing with the locals to give away their secrets.

[A square 10]

id involve [at least threaten it] the BATF as well , you dont want them thinking you thought this unimportant , this is exactly why there is pushes for more gun controle , the wrong people are getting them

[Embalmer]

UPS temporarily lost my m1a at their conneticut hub. I tracked it from MD to there, then 2 weekdays later still no movement of it. I called to see what was going on , they said they would look into it and get back to me. 2 hours later they called saying the package is lost, and had no idea where it was. I told them ok, i was going to call the BATF, maybe they can help track down the package. 2 hours later they called saying they found it, and was rerouted to here to be delivered the next day.

[ClaudeH]

Mike,

I was discussing your problem today with a couple of supervisors from UPS in Hodgkins (Willow Springs). They confirmed my impression that it would be very difficult to get a rifle out of the facility.

What they said happens a lot is that packages get ripped open in the automated machinery and the contents fall out. They have a big warehouse of stuff like that which they try to identify to a lost shipment, but usually can't. If the BATF was called in, they would start by finding out the serial number of the missing firearm and that might lead to your rifle being quickly identified in the warehouse of lost items.

[Bob Womack]

Sorry to hear about your hassle, Mike.

Bob

[Bob G]

If UPS declared it lost, the shipper has no choice but to notify BATFE about the issue. Serial no. and description ie: Make,Model etc. has to be given to them.
The rifle would probably show up very quickly after that hopefully.

[technician]

About 10 years ago a similar instance happened to me here in the Peoples Rebublic of Massachusetts.

I ordered a large lot of GI 4895 from Jeff Bartlett, went to pick it up at the terminal in Watertown, and guess what, they couldn't find it. The Supervisor said go home and we"ll call you when we find it. I said I'm not leaving here with out my 24 pounds, and if you can't find it, I'll call the BATF, they found it in 10 minutes.

[ltcboy]

Well on a happy note, UPS found the rifle, it literally shipped back and forth twice between Texas and Illinois. It took over 2 weeks to get it, but it was not damaged. It is now safe and sound in the gun closet with the rest of its brothers. Had to get one before the forces that may be prevented me to have it. I have 1000 rounds of ammo, but, since it is reloadable, I think I will hang on to it and shoot Wolf.


My friend has on back order 10000 rounds of .223 winchester ammo. He got it for $325 per 1000. Nowadays, that seems like a good price. I am going to get 3000 of that order.At least I'll have ammo for a while.


Mike