RECOVERED! **** Stolen luger! ****

[alanint]

An older collector once gave me valuable advice. He told me to hold off making an insurance claim for several weeks if you really would prefer to get the item back. It seems there is a scam among a small number of courrier service employees that runs like this;
They hide the box of something they have an interest in by burying it deep in some nitch in the courrier's warehouse. They wait for the insurance company to pay off the item at which time the courrier company wipes the item off its books. The employee is then free to retrieve and keep the item with nobody looking for it any further.

I have twice had collector bayonets I have shipped go missing. I have both times refused to submit a claim and insisted the item be located. Both bayonets eventually turned up. One at 4weeks and the other at something like 7 weeks. Both times the courrier gave a lame explanation of how it had just appeared in their warehouse from out of thin air. Granted these were lower value items I could afford to wait on for compensation

Of course this does not always work but its worth a try if you really want the item you shipped or are receiving back