Please let me know if you run across a Crossfire steering wheel, for sale, or just if you would happen to lay eyes on it that looks like this.

http://www.meinlenkrad.de/ebay/images/1138a5.2.JPG

Back in 2/2014 I removed the steering wheel from my car and shipped it to Meinlenkrad (meinlenkrad GmbH - Veredelung von Lenkrädern, Lenkrad mit Leder neubezihen) a reputable company I found on German eBay. They do recovering and other enhancements to steering wheels. They did their thing to my steering wheel (within 10 days) and shipped it back to me.
It shipped out of Germany via DHL, once it was in the U.S. it was handed over to the USPS for delivery.The tracking for the package went dead after it departed a USPS Customs Sort Facility (2/2014) in New Jersey, somehow the package, allegedly in pieces, showed up at the Detroit Network Distribution Center in Allen Park Michigan

Carole Blount (a manager at the Detroit Network Distribution Center in Allen Park Michigan) sent some
pieces (cut with a box cutter not torn) of the cardboard package 4000 miles back to Germany rather than contacting me 30 miles away in Michigan. These pieces were eventually sent to me by Meinlenkrad. My name, address, email and phone number were all on the shipping label, which was intact. It should have been scanned as damaged on arrival. DHL has concluded that the steering wheel was stolen. I have submitted search requests to the USPS lost package facilities that have come up with nothing. USPS denies any responsibility. Just last week, Meinlenkrad has finally been reimbursed about 85% of the amount I paid them for their services (by DHL), they are refunding me that amount. I still am out the steering wheel. So if you see or hear anything let me know. There are a couple of markings I made on the wheel that would show it to be mine.

 

That is a nice looking steering wheel. What did that conversion cost you with duty fees and all.... And yes, these shipping facilities are terrible. You really have to package things well....

 

It was about $450 all inclusive. It was packaged well, double boxed and taped as it should be. Though if a USPS employee wants to cut open the box and steal the contents, not well enough

 

I have been in the trucking business for more years than I wish to admit. If you ever get a chance to go to a sorting facility, you will see all kinds of mishaps. Boxes get jammed up and tore up all the time. Once the contents are out, who knows where they all end up. I have had some good ones show up at my door and get sent back. You wonder how they stay in business. That would make me sick to have that much in a beautiful wheel and never receive it....

 

You are in a business where lots of gear 'falls off the back of a truck'. LOL

 

I know you are right. I'm not positive that happened to my steering wheel. DHL classified it as stolen by the USPS. I did go to the USPS sort facility, twice, by talking my way past a security intercom.
I couldn't get back to the package mangling equipment. I talked to a manager, they looked in the room where they keep "opened" packages, they had a special area just for automotive goods, nothing was found they said. They supposedly look through all the equipment and conveyors nightly.
For the USPS there are but 2 outcomes for a package in their care (I'm quoting them here) "you either get it or you don't". They have no have no mechanism to recover a missing packages, nor they care what happened to contents.

 

yes, its pretty bad. Even if you identify it, they won't let you have it... It goes to claims. Yes 180, only if I leave the door open....