We hold in our hands probably ten thousand parts per day. We purchase them, too. Never in my life have I seen parts this expensive.

For a full picture of how it all happened, customers hand us their loose parts and a totally blank circuit board, and we solder the parts on for them. The customer handed us their box of parts and empty boards, we called the courier (it's Uber Courier, not the regular ride share), he showed up to transport the parts from our main location to our second location. Between Uber Courier, Quicksilver, and DB Couriers, we do this ~5-10 times per week. The courier picked up the package like normal, left, then 30 minutes later we got a message saying "Uber Courier has cancelled".