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B-261306.2 1 (1996-07-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobablno0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Office of the General Counsel B-261306.2 July 1, 1996 Resource Protection Attention: Bobby L. Cates P.O. Box 3417 Tampa, FL 33601-3417 Dear Mr. Cates: This is in response to your letter of September 15, 1995, requesting reconsideration of our decision Allied Van Lines, B-261306, Sept. 1, 1995, which denied your claim for refund on behalf of Allied of $1,248 for loss/damage to a shipment of household goods which Allied picked up from nontemporary storage. Our September 15 decision found that since the warehouse produced the inventory, which you argued was not available to the Allied driver when he picked up the shipment, the list of goods made by the driver was a rider to the original inventory and not a new inventory. Therefore, we denied the claim because as the last carrier, Allied should bear the loss. In your request for reconsideration, you argue that the inventory produced by the warehouse was completed when the household goods were picked up and was only signed by the military member and the warehouseman, not by an Allied representative. Therefore, there is no proof of tender of the items to Allied. The inventory of a shipment of household goods going to nontemporary storage would only be signed by the above two parties since Allied did not enter the picture until after the period of storage. That is the purpose of having the delivering carrier complete a rider noting any discrepancies between the inventory and the tendered items. As our Office noted in Resource Protection, B-265682, Feb. 20, 1996, a case involving similar facts, when the original inventory was not available, the driver should have contacted the service to ascertain if it had a copy of the original inventory or to obtain instructions as to how to proceed. By failing to do this, the 1157627

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