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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted October 08, 2009 01:09 PM
At least from my perspective, as well as what should have been.
I had finally worked it out, with a fellow Super 8 enthusiast, (and past releaser of Super 8 product), to get a negative made of my 400ft 16MM reel of classic animated commercials. He had secured the machine to make the negative for (on 16MM) for Super 8 prints, and locally, in the good ole USA.
I mailed it to him Priority, and being it was just going from Idaho down to L.A. California, it should have taken three or four days tops.
It has been about a month or so and he still hasn't received it.
I can only conclude that, unless a miracle happens and it gets back to me or arrives there, that it has been lost in the mail.
After much harrassing from every angle, (to the point of the post mkaster general actually having me removed from the post office!), it appears that there is nothing more to be done. I can only hope that perhaps it arrives, way late at either destination.
Before anybody gets a slight lingering thought about it; I completely and totally trust the individual that I was/am working with on this venture. From our phone calls and constant e-mails back and forth, I have come to find that he is a proper, honorable man. Other wise I wouldn't have even given dealing with him a second thought, so, if He states that he has not recieved the reel, (and he has said so), then he hasn't recieved it. End of discussion on that one.
The sad thing, apart from an upcoming USA Super 8 release for all of us, is that it took me a good five years to compile that collection of mint and near mint color commercials, and it hurts to have it lost, due to the incompetence of some postal worker.
I have myself to blame as well. I should have mailed it by some one day service, for sign and recieve, so I hold blame as well and have not stopped kicking myself over my stupidity.
I have only had a few packages not arrive, whether sending or recieving, (three media in USA and one going overseas and two coming in from overseas, I keep records.), but this one stings even more than the lost STAR WARS feature back when I first started collecting in 2003.
Sorry to bear the sad news. Fingers continually crossed on it.
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted October 08, 2009 06:10 PM
Yes Joe ...
It was incredibly stupid of me. To be honest, I didn't even think of doing any kind of delivery confirmation. To be doubly honest, I have never done a single delivery confirmation, (unless packages going overseas automatically get a delivery confirmation), on anything I have mailed. Unless asked for, I have always sent things by media mail when doing ebay auctions or otherwise.
I did put my return address on the package, as I always do, so, if it is just sitting around somewhere, it will hopefully come back to me.
Someone can verify if they desire to, but I beleive that Media mail is subject to being opened.
It was mailed very securely as well. As a general rule, I always over tape, or use tape that is quite secure.
As stated before, fingers crossed for the future.
OSI
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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