f**king sneak thieves

I guess everyone has to deal with things like this.
I was expecting a package to be delivered.
On the day of delivery I arrived home later in the evening.
No package. Not at the gate, not behind the trash can, not behind the pile of tornado trash. Ok call son and mil. Nope they didn't see a package when they fed the animals.
Checked the shippers web site. According to them the package was left at the front door. Check between doors( a wheel fits there?), check to the sides and finally with a flashlight under the deck. HMMM it would take a dedicated driver to get it to the front door. A blocks walk from the locked gates. Make the call to the shipping company.
Until they hear otherwise they are sticking to the "left by front door" but will have the driver come locate the package and bring it to me personally, but this might take 3-4 days. Next up bother the seller for address confirmation. Maybe the address is wrong?
Nope the seller got right back to me(Thanks newagerocker). He used the correct address. Ok gone 5 days no package, no mail in the box. The idea is starting to dawn.
So by Sat(2 days after delivery) I am walking the ditchs hoping to find my mail and a wheel. 1 mile south and back, 1/2 mile west and back. As I was starting the north from the drive something "caught the sun" in the hay field to the west. Un Huh the wheel and box where it had been opened and left. I guess they thought they were getting a TV? Monitor? Laptop? A stroke of luck to find it, but the bast*rds left the wheel with the brake cavity up catching 2 days of rain, grrrrrr.

OK now my question. When you ship parts do you label the box with the contents?
And do you think labeling would discourage people from taking things they have no use for?

I always ship to my work so I know someone will always be there to receive it.

Something like "crappy old rusty used motorcycle parts for a 1988 Honda 200" ?
Glad you found it. Hope the brake shoes weren't in water they will fall off.
So far the only lost motorcycle parts were some handlebar risers I sent to Puerto Rico parcel post. The post office lost them, buyer stopped payment. 4 months later they showed up and he repaid me.

Labeling may discourage or encourage depends on what someones looking for. Must live in a bad section of town.

When I was back in college, I had a nice trek bike... I rode it everywhere... I also like a moron left it on my back porch one night...

Well the next morning, of course it is gone, now I went to school in the catskill mountains in upstate NY and there was no crime to speak of, but I figure there were a lot of drunk college kids...

well being that the porch sided a street and we used to sit there every night, I was quite surprised two weeks later while sitting there, a kid, maybe 12-13 rides by nonchalantly on my bike!

well I immediately jumped the railing and proceeded to chase him for a few blocks, and he got away.

I thought " damn I almost got it back "

About a week later, the same thing, the damn kid was walking it right by my house!
so this time i went inside, out the front and cut him off at the next block,
He then proceeded to scream for the police that I was trying to rob him!?!
his older brother somehow came up and asked what was going on, I told him, he was maybe 25
and holy crap, he straight punched his little brother almost knocked him out, started hauling him off telling him he was telling their mother, I was left standing there in total shock, with my bike.
the next day his mother brought me a pie,
thieves are not smart enough to read labels is the point.

I had a 1983 VW GTi (it has the distinction of being the only car I owned which actively tried to maim or kill me, but that's another story). I bought a set of 5 spoke alloy wheels for it, my (now ex) wife walked out one morning and it was sitting on the pavement with a cinder block and a cheap scissor jack under it. Wheels and tires, gone. Dammit.

Filed a police report and pretty much gave up on it, about 3 weeks later I'm working on the wife's truck and I hear a car 'growling' in reverse. I look up at the sound, there goes a Honda Accord with my wheels on it. I call the police and report it, they send a cop and a detective (that's a surprise, must have been a slow day).

Fast forward about two more weeks, the detective calls me and tells me to come get my wheels. Seems he went to where the guy had the Accord parked, jacked it up and removed the wheels, then left his business card under the wiper. The guy called him and said 'my car has no wheels' , the detective says 'I know. If you are lucky, Mr 1974jh5 will decide not to press charges so I'd just let it drop if I were you'.

Thats a cool detective for sure.I would keep in touch with him if I were you.

BWHAHAHA, Gary I was thinking of something like "Grandpas bed pan" or "Catheter supplies". But lawrgj is probably correct the reading and comprehension skills are lacking.

@BruceDeuce yes the neighborhood(?) is deteriorating. 20+ years ago we were one of four dwellings and the only mobil home in the mile section. Now there is a 40+ collection of homes just to the east(1/4 mile) and seven homes across the street. It used to be a washboard gravel road now paved. The newer residents complain about the traffic and smash and grab break ins. I have to point out the problems arrived when they did.
That the cops do NOTHING in the way of preventive measures and always arrive 5 minutes after the fact. And it is up to them to take measures to secure themselves.

Interesting stories lawrgj and 1974jh5. My incident was just a PITA.
Along with locating the wheel I managed to check the right culvert and found the mail.
Interesting they had two bills, a bank statement and a personal check in an envelope in the stash BUT they chose to open a request for funds from a local charity and a sales packet about an upcoming bull and heifer auction.
They had been interupted by my son coming out to feed.
He saw the kid in the ditch kinda crouched down and thought it strange.
So now we have a description and I WILL photograph the kid when he walks by for reference. I WILL be watching him and I HOPE it insults his parents enough they will come to "talk". I sure they won't appreciate my thoughts on junior.
A FREAKING SNEAK THIEF.

I had a rusty old motor and damned if i could get any single one of the bolts undone. So i posted it to my self and marked it CLASS 1 DRUGS. Low and behold when the motor finally made it home, every bolt was loose. Very helpful our local police!

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Yeah, people will steal anything. The sooner you realize this and don't give anyone the benefit of the doubt, the better off you'll be.

Once I was asked if I wanted to press charges for a theft (I got my item back). My response was not amusing to the officer.

"Only if he's going to lose a hand or fingers."


~ Derek

I left my guitar that my late father had given me on my front porch once. Woke up and it was gone. I gathered up my roomates and hit up every guitar shop and pawn shop until we found it. I dont think I've ever been in such a rage, scared the shit outta the kid behind the counter where I found it.

Lesson learned, dont drunkenly leave you important shit on the front porch of your downtown home. God I felt dumb.