FedEx/Customs Purposely Damages Vintage Car Part

[Born30YrsLate]

Figured I'd share this little story with everyone as a public service announcement. So I find and purchase a rare pair of NOS Thrush Mufflers 2.5" inlet & 2.25" outlet...compatible for Big Block application. Anyways the guy ships them from Mexico so they have to pass through Customs. They show up and immediately I was concerned as I could hear rattling around in the box of metal on metal...now I wish that had been the only issue. So I pull the mufflers out of the box and find not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5, but 6 holes drilled into them...5 in one muffler and 1 in the other...then they simply threw the mufflers back into the box with the only protective packaging being a couple packing peanuts....HOLY CRAP...why couldn't they just x-ray them, have a dog sniff them?...why stop at 5 holes in one of them - why not put 6, or 7, or 8. I always like to give recoginition where it is due...good or bad...THANK YOU FEDEX/Customs for purposely destroying a rare part without any just cause! I would like to give them props for not drilling directly into the bird. YEs - this was a Custom's job, the "Opened For US Customs" tape is a dead give away and comparing pre-shipping pics to arrival pics along with the nice shiny metal in the drill holes confirms it...what can I say.