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For any four-wheel drive illiterates out there who might benefit from a little enlightenment: Those were bad-@ss old trucks! One of my cousins owned one back in the '70s. Depending on what year yours was, it might be worth as much today as the AF15... Power Wagons Your books are very cool, and the story behind them is even better. Thanks for sharing, and best of luck with everything!

I certainly hope you are right about a better movie for the FF... The first hundred issue run is the stuff that dreams are made of. When I was a kid I remember my amazement that a comic book could actually run for nine full years. Amen to that...

SA Fantastic Four Lot: Ten absolute classics from the peak of the mid/late-'60s Kirby-Lee run, all in the VG - VG+ range, with a few closer to Fine or so -- all nice and solid, no rags, nothing missing, no hidden issues. Some day, a talented young maverick filmmaker will finally manage a fun, rollicking, old-school FF film--cosmic soap-opera high adventure!--and the Kirby-plotted run from 44-up will be its Urtext, once and for all time restoring this Olympian-level series to the prominence it so richly deserves! Includes: 58, 61, 63, 68, 69, 77, 78, 81, 85, 86. $85 NOW...$75 shipped and insured for the lot of 10 books. SOLD!!!

Hey all, Over the course of the next week or two, I'll be offering a fairly large number (for me at least) of lots and individual books -- all raw, many high-grade, & some very nice readers, too…something for everyone I hope. Highlights include: • complete HG Starlin Warlock and Captain Marvel runs; • a lot of very sharp Western Penn pedigree Marvel Team-Ups; • a handful of very nice '70s DCs; • a few cool Manitoba books; • some choice Byrne UXM… ...and more. The first lot will be listed within the hour, with more to follow later in the week and over the weekend. Stay tuned! Thanks for looking! -Mikey ----------------------------------- TERMS: • in the thread rules. • PayPal ONLY for this sale. • No HOS'ers/probies/etc. • Payment is due within 3 days of closing the deal unless we've made other arrangements. DOMESTIC US SHIPPING (fully insured Priority Mail w/extremely secure packaging): • FREE for all items in this thread listed in multi-book lots. • Individual comics: $8 for 1-4 comics via a flat-rate Priority envelope; $13 for 5 or more via a flat rate Priority box. • I'm sometimes able to ship the same day that payment is received, but usually no later than one day after payment is received. ***VERY IMPORTANT NOTE -- US shipping only, very sorry!*** RETURNS: • Shouldn't be necessary, but…I'm reasonable -- if there's a problem of ANY kind, please PM me and we'll work it out. Need larger scans? Detail pics? Interior pics? More info? Please feel free to PM me. Finally, my feedback thread is located here (under my old username, but it's still me): My feedback thread!

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Link? http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=394892&Number=8997969#Post8997969 Thanks! That really sucks, but the sad fact of the matter is that Priority w/signature confirmation is not on par with, nor is it nearly as expensive as, Registered Mail. Of course, in both cases the USPS should be held accountable. But Kav's claim that the worker faced no consequences is patently false, to wit: Still, that's not the same as restitution for the loss...

It hasn't happened to me, but I won't deny that a lazy carrier might do that. But...that's not the same thing as a carrier signing for a package instead of the recipient. Was that what happened in the case you're referring to?

Link?Anyone remember the thread-The guy slab was left in the hallway of his apt building by a seasonal employee. ...but was it a Registered Mail parcel? I get First Class and (non-sig) Priority Mail boxes dropped at the door all the time. But I have yet to have a mandatory signature-required package left to rot on my porch...

But according to the OP, this parcel wasn't "lost" -- it was wrongfully signed for by the carrier, dropped at the front door, and then stolen by...someone. Possibly a passerby, but also (possibly) by the carrier or an associate. Who knows? Let's just say that there are lots of questions still to be answered here...

Link?

Kav, the post office won't put someone on non delivery because he pressed the post office. They will put you on non delivery if it's hazardous to deliver your house, dogs, no sidewalk, bees, snow, etc or if you've threatened your letter carrier.

Sure, that can happen. There are @-holes everywhere. But the PO has more checks and balances in place than you might imagine. And though it's far from a perfect system (and really, what is?), the volume they deal with is truly staggering: in 2015, roughly 493,000 USPS employees processed 154.2 BILLION pieces or mail to 155 million delivery points. That's insane. And yet, only a statistically small number of deliveries go awry, while millions of pieces of mail make it safely to their destinations every day. I was trained back in 1990 in the big Baltimore hub downtown, and couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the main sorting room. To this day, I still think it's a miracle of organization that ANYTHING we mail gets to its destination as quickly (and cheaply) as it almost always does...

Then he is receiving his mail. Being informed that your mail is, for whatever reason, being held at the PO for you to pick up is not the same thing as the PO not giving you your mail, or destroying it, because you have a beef with them, or because a carrier is too lazy or incompetent to deliver it.

IF this package was sent via Registered Mail as the OP claims--and IF it's clear that the carrier signed for it, and not the recipient--then the USPS will pay this claim. But...as other people have said, don't expect it to be fast or easy...

The USPS, as you might imagine, frowns on this sort of thing. When it does happen, the offenders generally go to jail: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-mailman-arrested-not-delivering-40-000-pieces-mail-article-1.1952684

Take it from an old Post Office clerk: USPS Registered Mail is a "maximum security" service. Unless you called your local PO branch directly and made other arrangements, left a signed note, or signed a release of some sort, NOBODY other than the recipient (you!) should have been able to sign for this package. Press the USPS on this, get CGC involved (since they shipped it), and threaten legal/law enforcement action against the USPS or the carrier if necessary. This isn't "negligence" -- it's a willful and possibly criminal violation of the contract, on the part of the USPS, which CGC entered into when it sent the package via Registered Mail...

CGC grading fees are pegged to the value of the book, right? So maybe CGC itself can supply some data...

Loved the movie! Great energy, esp. in the 2nd half, and the whole thing really captured at least some of the primal, rag-tag, thrill-a-minute feel of "A New Hope". Characters were briefly sketched, it's true, but still memorable. And for all this talk about a "darker tone", it was unexpectedly funny in places. On the other hand, the CGI resurrections, particularly Leia, didn't work for me either -- too waxworks. But I agree that the Leia appearance was, unintentionally, a nice tribute to Carrie Fisher. I'm wondering if Fisher's daughter could have pulled it off, maybe with a combination of makeup, lighting, and some CGI re-touching...?

This is the smart play...

Sure. I mean, what could possibly go wrong...other than losing the book, the cash, and getting locked up for insurance fraud?

For example, from the USPS (including Registered Mail): https://www.usps.com/help/claims.htm Don't screw around. This is a serious book which sells for serious money in any grade. Put it back in the bag you found it in (carefully!), position it (carefully!) between two hardcover books which are larger than it all around; lock it up (carefully!) in a fireproof safe-deposit box while you get all your ducks in a row; and then think long and hard about trusting it to ANY carrier other than yourself for delivery to CGC...

Given my recent experiences with shipping and receiving items, you might do better to invest in a plane ticket and deliver it to Sarasota yourself...

I'd absolutely avoid handling it any more than is necessary, especially if you don't have experience with older comic books. It's already a lower grade copy, so you're unlikely to do any catastrophic damage. But even in its current shape, little things can add up (for example, causing a page or a wrap to come loose from the staples, detaching a piece which is barely hanging on, etc.)...

Very cool! You don't seen a key GA book like that turn up "in the wild" every day. Can you tell us a little more about how it came into your possession?

Until you actually opened it and went "GAH". Now there's some bad taste I seriously love this run. Harkens back to Kirbys 50s work like Black Magic. It's amazing to me how many people are still antagonistic toward it, just because it didn't regurgitate his SA work I love that people hate it -- makes VERY nice copies VERY cheap compared to other books from the era...