A Bouncing Betty Long Range Boomerang Bomb

Back before Christmas Dup fired a shot at me, but it didn't arrive. It had my correct address on it, but wasn't delivered because of postage due. Dup sent so many this one didn't get paid for. Because Dup got cute with the return address it finally landed at the Richard Petty Fan Club Headquarters. It looks like they have visited about four or five states.

I got a note in the mail last week from the RPFC asking if I knew anything about this strange package. They were slightly afraid of it. I called them and they agreed to send it along as long as I paid all the postage. It arrived yesterday, only a couple months late.

I opened it to find a nice group of cigars and Christmas greetings from Dup. There was a small problem . . . . . . it evidently has spent it's "waiting" time on top of a heater. To say "dry and cracking" would be an understatement. I almost cried. These are some good sticks.

So now I have them in a special humi getting slowly rehydrated, hoping to bring them back to life. It looks like about half of them might be saved if I'm real careful, and take it real slow. I even put the cracked and flaking ones in the humi, just couldn't bear to toss 'em.

Wasn't Dup's fault, his heart was in the right place, but these sticks look like they really had a rough trip. They're safe now Dup, and in intensive care.

Thanks brother, and I'll give an update and medical bulletins as they recover.

Tuck

but how?????

i mean i had delivery confirmation on it...paid for it at the post office??

i thought it went to wrigley field...but now that you mention Richard Petty...it makes sense!!

"WOW" i wrote them off and there was some good ones in there!!

i'm amazed at how they fornd you after all!!!

how much was shipping...i'd like to compensate!!

and i do hope some make it through alive!! just to be burned at a later date!!

that is totally amazing!! i gave up on them !! i figured they would have been opened and passed around!!

i'm sure King Richard appreciates a good cigar!

thank's Tuck! for letting me know!

Weird.

yeah...this was about mid dec. when it went out...i took a bunch of packages to the post office and sent them all at the same time! but it "should have been delivered...i could swear i paid the postage or they wouldn't have sent it!!????

"i paid the postage or they wouldn't have sent it"

I'm with the husker on this one. Very strange, indeed.

i know!!!

but i took it to the post office...they processed it...and then they shipped it???

shouldn't they have cought it at the post office?

i guess i need to see if i still have the reciept!

(hidden somewhere from the mrs.dup)

tuck....if you still have the pkg handy....what's the dc # on it??

or what was the postmark date...i'll match it with the reciept!

Wow nice story this makes. Sorry to hear about the Boomerang bomb, hope the cigars make it out of intensive care.

Dup - The package had my address correctly, but was returned to the Richard Petty Fan Club for "postage due" . . . which ain't kosher because it had a "DC" tag on it when it got to the fan club. I think you paid, and the clerk forgot to hit that box with his stamp. If you mailed a bunch of them he could easily miss one.

I don't have the DC# because we couldn't be sure whoose or what it was, so I had them (at the RPFC) open it so we could see what was inside (while I was on the phone to them). When they told me what it was, and read your note, I said send it COD. They had to repackage it to send it.

Don't sweat the charges, I got it. It's a strange one, but hopefully I'll recover some of them. Bless their hearts, they're sleeping now, very tired from the long journey. I just thought you'd like to hear the strange story.

Tuck

i would make a claim to the PO for the value of the cigars ruined...you paid, yet they jacked you. their fault!

Get them for making us pay!!!

Will the post office pay for tobacco products?

hey tuck....

so how many "good ones" bit the dust?

I'm hoping the best ones are in intensive care and pull through!!

but i'm fearing the worst for the better ones

Dup, I didn't inventory them like that. All gifted cigars to me are special. I have 'em segregated, I'll look at them in a day or two and check on them. They're resting in the "special" tubador, with the super premiums, cubans, etc. I have them together in the box you sent. Tuck

well i'm hoping for thier recovery and your enjoyment being one and the same.......pleasurable!!!