elanya

Well, mostly bitching, but also a question, if anyone (Rum?) might be able to give any guidance...

Some of you will already know the monitor mishap that ladyiolanthe is suffereing from, others don't thigh, so I'll explain.

Last year, with her tax return, C bought one of those super high-quality flatscreen tv/monitor dealies (I think from Sony). This was to be the focus of her entertainment/communication network at home! (Used for TV, games and computer... I guess it really was all that and a bag of chips ;). Anyway, she recently moved, from Nova Scotia to the Ass End of Alberta, via New Brunswick. Most of her stuff was being stord in NB, and in the AEoA, she was going to have a whole house to furnish (provided by the government, who employs her, and was also paying for the move). She employed a local Fredericton company to transport her stuff. They trucked it up to Fort McMurray (I think?), and from there it had to be flown out to the true AEoA.

Now, how are these things all related? Well, her monitor never arrived, although all the rest of her things did (save whatever else was in that box). It turns out that a: it was never recorded on the moving sheet, and b: since she declined to have someone unpack stuff for her in the AEoA, she unknowingly waived her rights to the insurance policy of the moving company 9I would give the name, but I don't know it, alas).

The moving comany says that if the box wasn't tagged, it isn't their responsability, and basically, her loss; her problem. She talked to the company VP, and that was basically what he said.

Now, we *know* the movers took the box. So I am wondering the following: if they were only responsible for things that were tagged and recorded, then those were the only things that they were legally allowed to take, right? So would their taking of the monitor consitute theft? What would be needed to prove this?

And if it *is* theft (and I think it is... I have a suspicion that it was purposeful theft, even), what can she do about it at this point? She doesn't have a serial number for the monitor, so what would be needed to prove that she owned it? Do you think that threatening the company would be enough to get them to be more helpful (check their warehouse, even), or would that just give them impetus to get rid of stolen goods? And how would be the best way to get something done, where she is now stuck out in the AEoA, and the crime took place in Fredericton?

It really bothers me to see this happen to her, and to think that there isn't *anything* she can do.