The Missing Mattress Mystery of Missouri

ProfessionalNoticer · May 22, 2022

blairandgretchen said: ↑

I figured out the gals comment about "Nice Car" - it was a weird way of saying "Oh - you can afford to lose a mattress".
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As soon as I read that, I knew exactly what she meant. Envious and jealous people will hate anyone doing better than them.

Last Call · May 23, 2022

@pete781693 ... we got serious problems.. Thanks to this thread..
Sales on the @Oxbow edition have dropped like a prom dress ..
Nobody wants to buy them since it doesn't come with a mattress ....
We could be headed down a rough road
What's your thoughts ?

pete781693 · May 23, 2022

Catmando said: ↑

@pete781693 ... we got serious problems.. Thanks to this thread..
Sales on the @Oxbow edition have dropped like a prom dress ..
Nobody wants to buy them since it doesn't come with a mattress ....
We could be headed down a rough road
What's your thoughts ?
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I think that @Oxbow needs to stop focusing on golf balls and start promoting mattresses and make sure they get delivered to the correct address; and, he needs to autograph each mattress and maybe include an unused pair of silk boxers.

Last Call · May 23, 2022

pete781693 said: ↑

I think that @Oxbow needs to stop focusing on golf balls and start promoting mattresses and make sure they get delivered to the correct address; and, he needs to autograph each mattress and maybe include an unused pair of silk boxers.
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You realize his definition of a ( Hole in 1 ) is completely different than what it means to a golfer

pete781693 · May 23, 2022

Catmando said: ↑

You realize his definition of a ( Hole in 1 ) is completely different than what it means to a golfer
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Well no know how Undertakers are, the clientel provide no resistance.

Last Call · May 24, 2022

pete781693 said: ↑

Well no know how Undertakers are, the clientel provide no resistance.
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LMAO

Sirscrapntruckalot · May 24, 2022

pete781693 said: ↑

Well no know how Undertakers are, the clientel provide no resistance.
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But it sure was funny!

Sirscrapntruckalot - LOL

IH9300SBA · May 24, 2022

blairandgretchen said: ↑

So the story begins in a quiet little town in Southwest Missouri . . . .

"It was a dark and stormy night . . . "

"A tale of lies, deceit, felony theft and eventually sheep counting"

We decided to treat ourselves after years of sleeping on a queen mattress and frame, I had MENTIONED that it might be time for a new bed. Within seconds Gretchen was reducing our net worth by a few percentage points on the good old Internet.

We decide on a California King with a $1700 Serta mattress. She orders the base separately. The mattress is of course some 3 weeks away for delivery. The base arrives, from a multi-stop outfit in California, with good communications all the way. It's pretty heavy and requires some assembly. All good.

Weeks go by. About 4 to be exact. Gretchen pulled up the tracking on the mattress - on a Sunday or Monday I think, and the package shows DELIVERED - but only states the town name, not an address.

So, on Tuesday I head off to Joplin and find the Fed Ex freight terminal, armed with the tracking number. They send me to the other side of town to Fed Ex GROUND, where the lady informs me of the address where it was delivered. And the dimensions of the parcel, which puzzled me because it was about half the size and double the thickness of a mattress (later found it was because they fold them in half for shipping).

So - I visit the address in town, 3 miles away from where we live. I pull up outside, there's an older guy in the driveway on the phone. I politely wait for him to finish his call, and then say "Hey - did you get a mattress delivered by accident on Saturday?"

He's kinda wishy washy and vague, and says - let's go talk to my daughter-in-law. He steps inside the house, and is gone for just a little bit too long. The gal comes out. "Nope" - she says - "Ain't seen no mattress."

"Well you sure wouldn't miss it" I said - "It's 130 lbs and pretty darn big"

She says - "We did get a trundle bed delivered that day, and that was HEAVY, we still ain't assembled that . . . Anyways, I was at work that day"

"Huh - well thanks anyways, sorry to be disturbing you".

So, she walks after me a little ways and says "Nice car". (I was in the Challenger).

I say "Thanks - I bought it a few months ago"

She says - (pointing up the driveway) - "That's mine".

I turn around expecting to see a Challenger or Camaro or something similar - but it's a beat up 90's Silverado. Kinda odd.

Being polite - I said "Oh - I like that style, stepson used to have one, good trucks"

Off I go. I immediately call Fed Ex and tell them , and ask what we do now. Fed Ex says "Let us get a hold of the outside contractor and see what happened"

Well, days go by. I keep calling - they keep saying they've sent emails. Gretchen is furious by this stage - so I handle the communications. I even tried to get hold of the mattress manufacturer in Plainfield, IN. Eventually I talk to the seller, they quickly investigate - decide it's lost - and offer refund or replacement. I decline replacement - we'll just go down to a local store and get one similar - they issue credit card refund, so we're all good.

Step TWO.

She finds Slumberland in Joplin - online picks the one she wants - I get to call the store, Naomi answers, I order said mattress, decline all the stupid upsell warranties and such, they'll deliver - GREAT says I . . . $30 a piece removal of old box and mattress - GREAT says I . . .

IT'LL BE THREE WEEKS . Well - I kinda saw that coming, so they take the card payment, and we commence to waiting. Oh - and this one is $2500.

Back to the first missing mattress. Knowing the freight industry, I get to wondering who is gonna pay for the missing mattress freight claim. I begin to wonder if it's the delivery driver - you know the Fed Ex Ground little box truck. $1700 is a chunk.

Fed Ex finally comes up with the end of their story. They claim that on that Saturday all their delivery labels printed out the same, so there was some guesswork involved in delivery of packages (which is kinda odd - I would have thought you'd just read the address on the packages and figure it out, and that a tracking label would have been applied at shipper - but what do I know ).

Now things are starting to make sense. The trundle bed - well, mattress logically goes with trundle bed, right?

They say they sent the driver to the address to recover the mattress and they denied receiving it.

At this stage I'm thinking either

Freight theft ring involving Fed Ex office gal, driver and receiver - or

Dishonesty where it was delivered.

Had that been me? 130lbs of mattress turns up that weren't mine? It's not making it off the truck if I'm there, or there's phone calls happening when I discover it, or I might just be a good guy and go deliver it myself.

So - I call local police. Lay the whole mystery out. Give them Fed Ex's number. Tell them I ain't out any money, I just hate thieves.
Chief goes around there. They deny. Chief asks to look inside - sure, they say. No mattress.

Chief says to me they got no priors - nothing, not even a traffic stop. But the sister - oh, the sister that lives a few miles away used to be into the drugs and whatnot. Chief says it's felony theft at that value, but without proof - which Fed Ex doesn't have (well they have GPS pings and all sorts, but no signatures or pictures) - Chief can't do much. I told Chief - well, benefit of the doubt would give the option that it could have been delivered and then stolen off the porch.

A couple of weeks go by and I run into the actual driver who delivered it. Oh yeah - she remembers it, she says - and confirms that she did indeed deliver it - and described the gentleman that I first encountered when I went round there. She also confirmed that Fed Ex covered the claim, and not her personally. Well that's good, I says.

Contact the Chief again - she doesn't get back to me, at this stage I give up on it.

Back to Joplin Slumberland.

I check up on progress on the 2nd Mattress. Now I learn that they only deliver on Thursdays, so I tell them to call me when it gets in-store, and I'll pick it up, and dispose of old box and mattress myself.

Few more days, another call - I learn they don't ship to the store until it lines up with the proposed delivery date of Thursday, but they'll check up and get it shipped in immediately.

Few MORE days. "It'll be here on Friday". Friday comes and goes. They say the driver felt ill and didn't make it in, but it'll DEFINITELY be here Saturday.

Call on Saturday - and at this stage I'm about ready to lose my cool. They give me all these fluffy answers about what they've told me previously, but still don't have hands on the thing.

They finally call on Monday - it's there, I go and pick it up. Drag the beast into the house, set it all up, and sleep like a baby ever since.

Unlike the thieves down town - they can sleep with one eye open.

I figured out the gals comment about "Nice Car" - it was a weird way of saying "Oh - you can afford to lose a mattress".

All in about 3 months to get a new bed. You know how women get when it's time to get new furniture and change up the decor and pillows and crochet runners for the bottom of the bed . . . .and on and on . . . and have everything all ready to go. And then can't put it all together and stand back and admire their handiwork.

There you have it - the Missing Mattress of Missouri Mystery.
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As a former FedEx Ground contractor at the turn of the century I had 1 claim in 3 years owning the route. And it was the Cole Co. MO Prosecutor who happened to be pushing his son on the swingset when I handed him his cabinet door pulls. I didn't have him sign and got hit with a $80 claim a month or so later. Not a huge deal considering I'd hid computers in bushes, trashcans, etc. (FEG only paid for the 1st attempt, not all 3) So needless to say, that address never got another pkg without 3 days riding on the truck and me scanning it Resident Not Home, then the snail mail letter going out to advise them they would need to drive to Columbia, MO to retrieve their item. I'll admit I did some sketchy stuff as far as hiding packages going to rural homes to save 2 other attempts but to lie about a package I handed you by an elected official.....nope, I drew the line there.

Lennythedriver · May 24, 2022

pumpkinishere said: ↑

Nasty who the hell ####s with lot lizards.
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Says 100% of all all truckers, yet they get more clients than they can handle. Lol funny how that works isn’t it? Just sayin

Wasted Thyme · May 24, 2022

YardMule89 said: ↑

As a former FedEx Ground contractor at the turn of the century I had 1 claim in 3 years owning the route. And it was the Cole Co. MO Prosecutor who happened to be pushing his son on the swingset when I handed him his cabinet door pulls. I didn't have him sign and got hit with a $80 claim a month or so later. Not a huge deal considering I'd hid computers in bushes, trashcans, etc. (FEG only paid for the 1st attempt, not all 3) So needless to say, that address never got another pkg without 3 days riding on the truck and me scanning it Resident Not Home, then the snail mail letter going out to advise them they would need to drive to Columbia, MO to retrieve their item. I'll admit I did some sketchy stuff as far as hiding packages going to rural homes to save 2 other attempts but to lie about a package I handed you by an elected official.....nope, I drew the line there.
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You should always expect an elected official to steal from you. LOL

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