I will not give up on finding my bayonets. Could you imagine if rare bayonets ended up being destroyed because the package couldn't be deilvered by the post office???

Normally, I would like to have a courier company deliver the bayonet, but that is a problem -- at least in Canada. Here, courier companies classify the bayonet as a "weapon", although the current governmental import law states that is is completely legal to ship. Regardless, courier companies will refuse to ship the item (FedEx, UPS, DHL, Purolator...) if they know it is a bayonet. The only safe way to ship is USPS. When it enters Canada, the local Canadian postal system (CanadaPost) rightfully knows the proper import laws and allows the safe trasnsport of bayonets within the country.

I have had previous bayonet sales stalled since UPS would not accept the item to ship to Canada. Just my crappy luck that the major time I needed an expensive item sent by USPS, the postal system had a fire at the import office in Canada.

Additionally, I am at the mercy of the seller. Every time, I say that I will spend all extra money to get Express Mail from USPS, which is the safest to Canada, but most sellers from the US refuse and do not like this -- they will only ship Priority, such as this case, even though I said I will pay them for all Express costs. I wish I was more adamant with the seller to have Express....

Broad Arrow: The fire you referred to is a most unfortunate incident. However, from your comments it does not appear the carrier (USPS) was culpable here. I, for one, will never ship anything via UPS (United Parcel Service), unless a buyer insists on it. Over the years I have heard more horror stories of damaged, stolen, etc. collectables sent via this carrier. This includes signatures of delivery which were falsified as "proof" items were delivered, to cover up internal theft.

On the other hand, I have never had a problem with the USPS. As for the missing bayonets, I would be hounding whomever is responsible for overseeing the disposition of the damaged mail & parcels, insisting they produce your items or evidence they were destroyed. I think it is a lot of B.S. them telling you they will destroy all mail just because they cannot see or read a delivery address. You can provide proof the bayonets were bought & shipped to you, so if they run across them, they can complete delivery...

If this happened to me I'd be at the Mississauga station demanding to look through the damaged parcels.

Well, it looks like some good news after all !

I have been in contact with CanadaPost about the potentially burnt package and I was getting the run-around. My brother lives 2 hours away from Mississauga and he actually drove to the Sortation Plant and started to create quite a stir on my behalf.

As a result, my brother had them do a physical search and -- voila -- my package was located with the full shipping label intact. Since the package is addressed to me, my brother could not pick it up in person but it has now officially cleared customs and I should see it in a few days.

When it arrives, I will take some photos! :nanabang::nanabang::nanabang:

"The squeaky wheel gets the grease" as they say. Also a round of cheers for your brother going the extra yard in your behalf.

Hello to all:
It is well known, odd numbered by BUCK commercial sold, but the even numbered has gone to phrobis.These even numbered rarely be sold, so the even numbered is more precious. I was told that this set of bayonet (in this configuration) just made 25 sets plaque by PHROBIS in 1987,It is true barrel of Military M16. Others commemorative edition barrel is the plastic . The plaque of #012 is precious and perfect than odd numbered etc, the price is worth[/QUOTE]

It's very Good!
:grin:
1)US Army BUCK M9 Bayonet 3 line Phrobis Very Rare knife (#370205745571) US$ 2,605.00 =O***M(33)=Mr.MOON...From France .
2)US M9 Trials Phrobis XM9 Bayonet w/Scabbard knife #29 (#370205414684) US$ 3,383.00 =S***G(308)=Mr.Carlo...From Italy.
3)US Army BUCK M9 Bayonet Phrobis Chevron 1987 (#107) (#370211722554) US$ 1,085.00=O***D(81)
4)PHROBIS OPERATION DESERT STORM Comm. M9 Bayonet (#370211355278) US$ 1,525.00
=S***G(308)=Mr.Carlo...From Italy.

5)Military PHROBIS M9A1 Tan Bayonet (Phrobis tan) (#370214303954) US$ 510.05...AND..Very Rare US Military General Cutlery LanCay M9 Bayonet (#370217435249) US$ 913.00=O***M(33)=Mr.MOON

This time I establish the highest price is $4550 for the #012, I am very regrettable that Mr.Carlo is driving up the final price past the $3438.67 mark. If later will appear others in this configuration, I will continue to compete the racket and it's price will not be lower than $3600 .

Hello!
Mr Carlo was not "driving up" the price, but just bidding like everyone else.
Should one more of these M9s be available for sale, I'm sure you'll have a gorgeous duplicate in your collection! :grin:

:smile:We like M9