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B-270314 1 (1996-02-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadxx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Allied Transcontinental Forwarding, Inc. File: B-270314 Date: February 16, 1996 DIGEST Upon delivery of his household goods shipment, shipper listed books and tackle box on the DD Form 1840 (Statement of Loss or Damage at Delivery) with a nonconforming inventory number. Notwithstanding the incorrect inventory number, such description clearly refers to goods tendered to carrier, where inventory lists only one item containing the description books and tackle box. Therefore, carrier is liable for loss of this item. DECISION Allied Transcontinental Forwarding, Inc. (Allied) requests our review of our Claims Group's settlement involving an Air Force setoff of $272.61 against funds due Allied in connection with loss and damage to an employee's household goods. We affirm the settlement. BACKGROUND Allied picked up the shipper's household goods from Oakton, Virginia, on December 13, 1990, and delivered them to San Antonio, Texas, on February 14, 1991. On the day the shipment was delivered, the shipper and Allied's representative signed the DD Form 1840 (Joint Statement of Loss or Damage at Delivery). On the DD Form 1840, the shipper listed, among other lost or damaged items, the contents of inventory item #5 as books and tackle box, and stated that the entire contents of the box were missing. The inventory was prepared on forms preprinted with numbers in ten-digit series (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0). To complete the inventory, as articles were listed beyond the first series of ten numbers, each succeeding series was to be shown as the next succeeding ten-digit grouping, i.e., 11-20, 21-30, etc. Because of the manner in which the inventory was completed, item #5 appeared twice on the actual inventory. The first item #5 on the inventory described a couch. The second item so numbered (which should have been preceded by a 1, making it #15) described a mirror pack containing a painting. Both of these items were delivered. There was, however, an inventory item described as books and tackle box at #5 in the 60 712215

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