...If you're the one waiting on those special valve guides, or latches that match those on your case...
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...If you're the one waiting on those special valve guides, or latches that match those on your case...
yes...I actually DID order that cr@p...
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Re: ...If you're the one waiting on those special valve guides, or latches that match those on your case...
A few years ago, I sold a for-parts stereo receiver to someone via eBay. I shipped it USPS and it had a similar WTF tracking route. Then crickets for about 2 weeks.
Then, a destroyed box (and contents) were delivered to ME. Not as a return-to-sender, but rather as a... who knows. I think USPS actually at some point figured it was supposed to be delivered to me. Nobody could ever give me a legit answer for what happened. USPS was impossible to communicate with, they could not comprehend what actually happened, and said to file a claim with eBay. eBay said WTF, that's not our problem. I ended up -$40 on it or something. Not tragic, but quite ridiculous.
Then, a destroyed box (and contents) were delivered to ME. Not as a return-to-sender, but rather as a... who knows. I think USPS actually at some point figured it was supposed to be delivered to me. Nobody could ever give me a legit answer for what happened. USPS was impossible to communicate with, they could not comprehend what actually happened, and said to file a claim with eBay. eBay said WTF, that's not our problem. I ended up -$40 on it or something. Not tragic, but quite ridiculous.
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Re: ...If you're the one waiting on those special valve guides, or latches that match those on your case...
Finally, my shipping pain here in Mississippi can be understood by others. Welcome to my world. One in three of my outbound packages end up taking neat, little vacations like this. One in three. FedEx and UPS are even worse. GPX is simply a greasy turd; absolutely awful.
Inbound service is not so bad, but I regularly lose paychecks or have mortgage payments evaporate forever. This is why I have urged others to never ship but to limit tuba purchases to horns you can pick up or deliver yourself, since about 2005 when I lost my first tuba into the abyss.
But alas! I am the Cassandra of the tuba world and always have been. I guess our overall decline as a society starts with Mississippi and spreads from here. My warnings about shipping have been shared with this community for sixteen years but no one thought they were all that important… until it happens to them.
Then it's important. I guess.
Inbound service is not so bad, but I regularly lose paychecks or have mortgage payments evaporate forever. This is why I have urged others to never ship but to limit tuba purchases to horns you can pick up or deliver yourself, since about 2005 when I lost my first tuba into the abyss.
But alas! I am the Cassandra of the tuba world and always have been. I guess our overall decline as a society starts with Mississippi and spreads from here. My warnings about shipping have been shared with this community for sixteen years but no one thought they were all that important… until it happens to them.
Then it's important. I guess.
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bloke
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Re: ...If you're the one waiting on those special valve guides, or latches that match those on your case...
All forms os shipping have deteriorated (as planned, I’m sure) ever since the orchestrated economic shutdown.
“_ _ _ . _ _ _ _ _” is the universal excuse for lack of achievement.
“_ _ _ . _ _ _ _ _” is the universal excuse for lack of achievement.
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Re: ...If you're the one waiting on those special valve guides, or latches that match those on your case...
A friend around here sold a tuba to someone in South Texas, and asked me about the best way to ship it.
I advised them to pay a responsible student to drive it down to Texarkana, and to have the buyer drive up to Texarkana to meet them.
I may end up in a month or two having a tuba sale to a California person… I might have to fixgure out some sort of Oklahoma rendezvous or something...(??)
There are some really strong advantages to self-shipping:
- Careful and responsible handling is “insured“.
- Up to the moment tracking information is always available.
Besides shipping “stuff”, shipping onesSELF (maybe...??) should possibly best be done by - well - “onesself”...and - years ago (long before the top-down engineered chaos) – I personally wrote off any idea of going overseas for several more reasons than this:
https://news.trust.org/item/20210723084719-qjmjj
I advised them to pay a responsible student to drive it down to Texarkana, and to have the buyer drive up to Texarkana to meet them.
I may end up in a month or two having a tuba sale to a California person… I might have to fixgure out some sort of Oklahoma rendezvous or something...(??)
There are some really strong advantages to self-shipping:
- Careful and responsible handling is “insured“.
- Up to the moment tracking information is always available.
Besides shipping “stuff”, shipping onesSELF (maybe...??) should possibly best be done by - well - “onesself”...and - years ago (long before the top-down engineered chaos) – I personally wrote off any idea of going overseas for several more reasons than this:
https://news.trust.org/item/20210723084719-qjmjj