Man, sorry it did not work out! I was hoping UPS would find your passport and call you, the visa in it may still be valid. I had this kind of thing happen to me with America West ages ago. When my flight to SFO was delayed, all international connections were deboarded and we gave our BPs and passports to the gate agents for rebooking. I was told it was too late for any connections to Hong Kong so they would book me last. Just ahead of me a large group of Korean athletes were rebooked and handed a big bundle of passports and BPs and told to run. Which they did. I moved up to the counter to get rebooked. The agent asked for my passport and boarding passes. I said she already had collected them from everyone including me. She said there were none left, maybe by mistake she had given it to the athletes ahead of me. She went off to the gate to check and I never saw her again. You are taking this all quite well, better than I did at the time!