Check this out.
Customer has sent here, a transferable item, (what it is, is irrelevant), customer's name is not included in the F3 with the item. I actually do not know who the customer is until he calls a few months later. He does not leave his name but rather "I'm the guy with the (item), did it make it there yet?".
Yes, I tell him. But he never shows to start his Form 4.
A year goes by. He calls and says "I just got back in the country, I'll come down there this week and start the paperwork."
Me, being annoyed at this point, say "I'm about ready to file abandoned property papers on it through my lawyer, this isn't NFA storage, this is NFA transfers."
"Sorry, been busy. I'll be in this week, Promise."
SIX MORE MONTHS go by, not a word.
I'm getting ready to get out of the business.
29 MONTHS, this item has been here. It's worth multiple-thousands of dollars.
After 2 and a half years....is this abandoned property or what?
I don't know the guy's name. He never leaves his number, yet I've been the caretaker of his item, for free, and responsible for it's full value that entire time.
I'm annoyed and conflicted.