FedEx charges $700 to ship an irreplaceable Father’s Day gift for Virginia author. Then she was told it was destroyed and given no proof

Getting a package delivered should be simple, but for Virginia author Audrey Burges, it turned into an expensive disaster. Audrey recently purchased a unique ‘irreplaceable’ batik painting by artist Marlene McGoffin as a Father’s Day gift for her 82-year-old father. On Instagram, she explained that since the painting was a rare find from a Goodwill in New Jersey, she hired a TaskRabbit tasker named Marcia to pick it up. Marcia then shipped the artwork through FedEx.

She claimed that, luckily, “FedEx had a fine art box that fit the painting. The box alone was almost $300, and the shipping another $400.” Then, during shipping, things went wrong. Audrey claimed, “The painting was supposed to get here on Tuesday, and when it didn’t, I put the tracking number in, and I saw this. A shipping exception due to damage.” The package made it into a truck for her house and then allegedly “was damaged and taken back to the warehouse.”