Good point. I hadn't thought of that. Your return address label had falled off of something. The packaging for that book was completely destroyed within proximity of your label. They put your label with the book and .... walla ... Wally now has a book he can't read!
We had something kinda similar happen at work. I went to India this past July to assist with system testing for a software package we're implementing. We produced hundreds of documents that filled a large box. These were executed testing documents completed by hand with attached screen shots. In this instance the documents were far more valuable than the raw material (paper/ink) but instead represented many man-years of effort. Well, on it's way to the US the box was somehow completely destroyed. The shipper (not sure if it was UPS, DHL, FedEx) gathered up all of the papers, threw them in another box and shipped us that. Imagine our surprise to open the box to find it full of loose, confused, crumpled paper that had previously been neatly organized test scripts when we boxed it up in India. :shocked2: In some instances they simply grabbed many individual sheets, crumpled them into a ball and threw them in the box! We had to spend days sorting everything out, in some instances ironing pages to flatten them out. When we were done, we had numerous documents that didn't belong to us! Invoices, bills of lading, etc. A few of them seemed important and we actually made efforts to contact the company we thought might own them. What a mess it was.
We had something kinda similar happen at work. I went to India this past July to assist with system testing for a software package we're implementing. We produced hundreds of documents that filled a large box. These were executed testing documents completed by hand with attached screen shots. In this instance the documents were far more valuable than the raw material (paper/ink) but instead represented many man-years of effort. Well, on it's way to the US the box was somehow completely destroyed. The shipper (not sure if it was UPS, DHL, FedEx) gathered up all of the papers, threw them in another box and shipped us that. Imagine our surprise to open the box to find it full of loose, confused, crumpled paper that had previously been neatly organized test scripts when we boxed it up in India. :shocked2: In some instances they simply grabbed many individual sheets, crumpled them into a ball and threw them in the box! We had to spend days sorting everything out, in some instances ironing pages to flatten them out. When we were done, we had numerous documents that didn't belong to us! Invoices, bills of lading, etc. A few of them seemed important and we actually made efforts to contact the company we thought might own them. What a mess it was.
