I don't know about cherished as I never got to play them....
My tale of woe starts with my local postie who is a top bloke and if nobody is in he leaves my records in my blue recycle bin to save me the hassle of going into town and picking them up at the post office , we have been doing this for years !
Anyway I go off on a family holiday and in the meantime my new neighbours move in , My postie as always sticks my £300.00 worth of records in my recycle bin....
I come back from holiday, see my postage slips in my mail pile and excitedly rush outside to retrieve them from my hiding place, my wife still laughs as she recalls the look on my face when I flung open the bin to see nothing, and I mean nothing !!!!!!
Out pops my new neighbours to boast they'd done the new neighbourly thing and put my bin out for me whilst I was on holiday ! I had to fight back the tears as I thanked them !!!!
Needless to say I now pick my records up from the post office....