Canada post screw up and need for help

[Eaglelord17]

So I see it has been badly impacted caught whatever also a sign notice down the bottom so it was registered post its your call EL17 but if you go after them it may save another person some grief with Canada post upgrading how they treat people postal parcels etc.

Problem is there isn't really much of a alternative in Canada. That and since they are a Crown Corporation they can get away with a lot more than the average company. I will try to get as much out of them as possible, but I really don't expect it to go to far. I have heard of similar horror stories, or even as BAR said firearms simply disappearing in the mail.

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[browningautorifle]

I shipped my 1928 Thompson to Quebec a few years ago and went whole hog by buying a full size hard case, plastic of course, and a roll of bubble wrap. Stripped the gun into it's butt and gun and drum and then wrapped with bubble wrap until it hardly fit. Taping completely and then wrapping it, I addressed and shipped. I insured it for the full value, which cost me $200 after postage and insurance. If it was thrown in the river, it would have floated there. They could have drug it and it would make it. If not, I'd have even paid for the case and postage. I didn't trust them one bit.

Of course it made it unmarked. That was all I wanted in the first place. I do have stories the other side though...like this. A Walther PP that disappeared in the mail... More...

[CINDERS]

Thing about life EL17 you will never know until you have a crack at them just do not let them bully you, some of those people with neon sun tans would not have a clue what goes on they probably all got degrees and no first hand experience there is a vast void from a person that has come from the lowest position up the ladder and the other chap who comes straight from college. When the sh*t hits the fan I know who will control the situation better and its not the tosser with 15 degrees and a nice white shirt.........

[Surpmil]

OP: looks like one of the commies/antis employed by CPC swung the upper end of the butt against the ground, smashing it off. Does the heel of the butt or the packaging show impact damage there?

[Eaglelord17]

Well I have been thinking about what I am going to do. I might just try my hand at making a stock for it, and see if I can configure the rifle in a appeasing manner for myself. Thinking brass butt-plate, barrel bands, and such but I don't know. Maybe sell it off as a parts gun. We will have to see.

[browningautorifle]

I might just try my hand at making a stock for it

You should be able to find a cast off, especially here. Since there are guys love them as a hunting rifle and they make a poly stock, there should be full length stocks about. Try CGN and see?

[Eaglelord17]

You should be able to find a cast off, especially here. Since there are guys love them as a hunting rifle and they make a poly stock, there should be full length stocks about. Try CGN and see?

I might give that a shot, the only issue is the M91 stock is actually the only stock that is hard to find. I can even find M39 and M28/30 stocks but M91 Infantry seems to have dried up.

[Peter Laidler]

As I recall, an L42 in the chest no less was destroyed in a similar fashion by NZ post on arrival in NZ by the conveyor belt system. It was on its way to Invercargill. They paid up in full.

[CINDERS]

That would have been devastating for the new owner to lose that rifle and kit, its not that you can just pop off to the corner store and buy a new one.

[Flying10uk]

It is a well known yet sad fact of life that some/a few people who work at the sharp end of the parcel/package delivery business do, on occasions stand on packages and throw packages with all their might. I have personally witnessed this happening when parcel delivery lorries have turned up at work, the driver has gone into the back of the lorry then stood on parcels/packages in order to help him reach the package that he wanted. I have also witness, on occasions, seeing drivers trowing packages as hard as he can in the back of the lorry to move them out the way. I could have gone over and politely asked him "please would would you kindly handle people's parcels and packages with more care by not standing on them or throwing them" but I considered that I would most likely get a 2 word response, the second word being "off".