Wow! I've had a few "experiences" in my time, but that one tops any of them.
Glad it's (almost) over.
"Tomorrow," in your last post, is TODAY now. Here's hoping for a happy ending.
Worst one I had was a H&R Handi in 30/30, which was shipped just before major storms and serious flooding of UPS facilities in the area of its origin. Tracking went dead, but several days later, my transfer guy (half-hour away) called and said he had it. I started the 4473 while he retrieved it and he was fixing to call it in (background check) when I pulled it out of the box....
"WHOAAAA!" "HANG UP THE PHONE!"
It was a Handi. It shipped from the same part of the Country. It just wasn't MY Handi. I went home empty-handed and was called back a few days later. The box mine came in got wrapped around some equipment along the way and busted the rear sight. I counted my blessings and took it home and didn't bother with a claim. Wasn't pressing my luck further at that point.
We deal with "accumulations (or stacking) of tolerances" regularly in our adventures, but it seems we also sometimes deal with accumulations (or stacking) of comedic errors while transferring arms as well. OK, I''m being optimistic that we'll all chuckle about it sometime down the road, once there's finally a happy ending.