Epilogue 2 months later:
I finally received my full money spent refund from UPS yesterday.
The item they lost was found at UPS overgoods at the Salt Lake City Utah hub.Apparentally it lost it's exterior adhesive shipping label,and that's where they ship those items of undetermined origin.It sat there awhile until they sold it at their salvage auction,which is routine.
I later sent them a picture of the item,and Utah UPS hub did recognize the item as being sold at their salvage auction afterwards.
They contacted the salvager of it and asked if they would consider selling it back to UPS,through Goodwill salvage..they declined.
Anyway this entire situation could have been avoided if the sender would have just written my address on the box,as well as apply the label,and written my address down on a piece of paper and stuck that inside the shipping box too.
I do this with ALL the packages I send out,but this sender relied solely on the small UPS 3X2 inch adhesive label.
I would like to Thank all of you who contacted me with ideas and connections within UPS to try to find my item.
UPS also has been nothing but helpful in trying to resolve this.They are human,and it happens.They stayed in touch with me constantly via email & telephone,and I feel went above & beyond the call of trying to locate this item.This is the only time I have ever had anything like this happen with UPS in the 25 years I have dealt with them,and I will continue to do so.
I
you all.
I'm watching Ebay to see if the salvager possibly throws it up there,so No I won't tell you what it was.
