Webcomic Rampage was friggin’ awesome and one of the best times I’ve had. Everyone was super nice and I got to hang out with some of my favorite people! But the awesomeness isn’t exactly why it will go down in infamy. Here’s something I posted on the Dumbing of Age site this past weekend that I meant to post here, too:
So here’s a fun Webcomic Rampage story. I’m pretty sure I’ll be telling this one a lot. It’s a doozy.
I mailed two boxes of books to Austin. One arrived perfectly! The other arrived, too, but in an interesting condition. It was, in fact, a completely new cardboard box, with the old, shredded cardboard box inside. The mailing address, return address, and postage had been exacto-knifed off the old box and taped onto the new box.
Inside the old box inside the new box was half a blender.
Yeeeeaaaaaah.
Yeah.
Well now we all know what to get you for Christmas.
Is it the half that eats?
I was wondering about that. I just wasn’t sure what to make of it.
Wow, looks like I won’t be complaining about Canada Post again for a while.
I still can’t believe someone would do that, and I was there when you opened it and saw half a blender.
All I can say is sorry, and curse who over took the new books, I wanted one!!
Did someone intercept it? Holy crap man, that’s nuts! How many books were stolen?
Hey, once you’re absolutely certain that you’re not going to get anything from the Post Office for it, maybe you should try to sell it on eBay. Throw in a custom comic or something.
Come up with a compelling title, describe the auction in an artsy “Plight of Man” way, and you might see something of a return. I mean, this is America, we buy pretty much everything.
Even the stupid stuff. Especially the stupid stuff. Hence, Chia Pets.
This has “Mike” written all over it. . .
Just thought you might find this interesting. It’s an article from Gizmodo about a guy who had virtually the same thing happen to him, so he did a little…”investigating”.
http://gizmodo.com/5713709/how-a-man-caught-ups-tampering-with-his-package
Thats… exactly what I was about to post. Was I just ninja’d?
I’m sure this is a Mr Willis making a joke regarding that ups article
Yeah, losing several hundred dollars of books to theft is HILARIOUS.
Wow… that’s just awful. I would dog their asses forever or until they produced my property. That’s total horse shit.
Remember to keep an eye on eBay for the titles.
I suspect the TSA, they’re known for grabbing packages.
*Dodges thrown objects*
Hmmm… I just had something similar happen to me. Shipped a whole bunch of boxes of childhood keepsakes from Plano, TX to New Jersey. There were at least 2 boxes that were tampered with and repacked (the scary part is they ended up repacking my boxes with items belonging to someone NOT me…). Still, items were definitely missing.
Really wondering what our options are at this point…