Pecuniary irregularity

[lady_t_220]

So every year our family buys a freshly-minted proof-set of coins from the Royal Mint. My dad started it when decimalised currency first arrived in 1971 and we've purchased a set every single year without fail since then.
This year's set came though the day before yesterday. Lovely set it was, beautiful wooden display box and everything, only... well when we opened it we discovered there were absolutely no coins inside.

Hmm.

If we'd had any suspicion that maybe there'd been a blunder at the mint it was kind of negated when we also observed that the top of the postage box had been re-sealed with a different colour tape at some point along the line.

*sighs and rolls eyes*

You can't tell me postal workers are THAT strapped for cash that they have to break into a proof-set and steal less than nine quid's worth of legal tender...? Cause out of the proof set that's all it is. Loose change.
*pokes them with sticks then shakes them upside-down to empty out their pockets.*

Man, people suck...

Comments

[sweptawaybayou.livejournal.com]

Absolutely beleive it. People generally suck. I've had people take donuts out of my fresh donut case and just like, eat them in front of me. Like if they eat a 50 cent donut before they get to the check out line than they don't have to pay for it. Christ. Someday I'm just going to go completely off on one of these people.

So anyway, I understand. It's unexcusable.
But, completely beleivable.

[lady-t-220.livejournal.com]

I love humanity but I hate people. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

[deke.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but do you think 9 quid is all they got? Don't bet on it. Any way you can report this to the postmaster general or whatever you guys call him? I betcha they're gonna be busy fielding complaints for the next few days.

[lady-t-220.livejournal.com]

Hmm.
It stinks of the opportunistic though. We called the mint and they were so surprised it's sorta' evident it's not some all-out targeting of their packages. If no one else has had a problem with it I guess it narrows it down to someone opening packages as a whim. The boxes aren't marked y'see, they wouldn't have known where it was from until they opened it.

But yeah... postmaster general. I'll have to remind mum to get back up on her high horse...

[myska-x.livejournal.com]

*sigh*
people do indeed suck..

what I hate even more is, when you go to the post office to report that something has been stolen and they're like "but that can't happen... I mean.. that would never happen. maybe it just got lost..."

yeah, right... and it's so believeable that the mail service loses a parcel with an address on it and a sender address on it... of course they didn't steal it, but lose it... now I start to see where I was wrong *grrrr*

it's kinda depressing if you have to send everything that has a worth to you as registred mail just because you have to assume they're gonna steal lose it... *sigh*

*pets you*

[lady-t-220.livejournal.com]

*snoogles*

Yup... people suck. ;)

Lost Comment

[sweptawaybayou.livejournal.com]

Man, I so totally left you a big long comment about this. . .And now it's gone. How weird. I wonder if I left it somewhere else? Do comments get lost? I wonder if there is a lost/stray comment folder somewhere. . .

Snow

Oops

[sweptawaybayou.livejournal.com]

Okay, there it is. It just didn't show up the first time I looked.

*kicks live journal*

*kicks self*

Just ignore me. It's been a long day.

Re: Oops

[lady-t-220.livejournal.com]

LOL, I was just about to say, I thought I already saw a comment from you about donut-theives... ;)