Shipping...

...charges have been an issue for me since I started
building guitars.
I did place orders for stuff before that.
 
The problem is not one place has everything so I wind
up with multiple orders and all with crazy charges.
 
The last one was just a few days ago and a great example of
what has me upset about the whole mess....
 
I won't say where because it doesn't feel right picking on just one..but they
had some pickup rings that were @12 dollars for a set. I needed two sets.
The shipping charges for 4 plastic pickup rings that cost @25 dollars, weigh nothing and are small
was $15.00 and change !!
 
I wrote them and told them that we both took a loss. Haven't heard from them...they don't care.
Now that's the American way.
 
$250.00 to ship a guitar and custom case 1000 miles. Both arrive on a Friday. The recipient gets the
guitar but no custom case....it's been on the delivery truck for 4 days with each day having scheduled
for delivery by end of day.
 
Is there anything that is working right or working at all in good 'ol USA?
 

Well that's something. Anything else?
 
Oh...thought I'd add...
Cake support did get with me about the bug report question(s).
I was given a link to a list of things to do on a procedure that was labeled
no longer valid which directed me to find a file that wasn't there.
So simply put....I would spend countless hours helping them get something that
may or may not be of any use to anybody.
Everything is working just has intended is my thought.

mike_mccue


I'm trying to figure out how to get UPS to bring me my groceries.

It'd cheaper than driving in to town... if I can just find someone to put them in a box for me. :-)

Last week when Randy stopped by to drop off my microphone we spent some time talking about what a crazy job it is taking packages to strangers all day long.

Randy got to pet GoGo when he settled down and we talked about dogs a bit.


I think USA is still working pretty good. 


best,
mike

You must be in charge of shipping rates. If so, I think you're undependable and nuts.

I haven't forgotten Bapu.

They just don't care because they know there are plenty of idiots
that will pay them that.
They also know of one that isn't and that thinks they are the idiots.

What they don't know is that I can build the rings and they are the ones that
inspired me to do so. Mine won't be plastic either.

For Canadians shipping is an even bigger hassle. UPS is horrible and stacks on the charges. All my suppliers of parts have been narrowed to those that use the USPS. I like the post office in the US and Canada and do what I can to support them. If you think about it, the post office is a luxury we all take for granted because most people do everything with email. I would be in trouble if I had to pay UPS or Fedex to bring my transformers from Roswell NM, to Hamilton ON. 

I hate Phed-Ecks.

I used to intentionally order something overnight, knowing that Phed-Ecks would never deliver it on time, then call the place I ordered it from and get a refund for the shipping. It was still faster than if I had ordered it regular delivery, but if it didn't show up by the time they guaranteed, that's not my problem. I'd pay for Next Day shipping by 5PM and I would never get it the next day. 3 days ... maybe. 12 days if I had stuff shipped regular.

I hate Phed-Ecks.

I think I already said that.

mike_mccue

My USPS person is a contractor with a fourth hand automobile with left hand drive driving from the right.

I find important mail addressed to me in the road side swale with regularity.

I figure its different for everyone every where and there are no consistencies.

My USPS person left a typed letter in my mailbox the other day (which is illegal BTW). It said something to the effect that my garbage cans were too close to the mail box and I had to move them to the other side of the road when I set them out on Fridays for garbage day.

So ... I promptly threw the letter in the fireplace and left my garbage cans there all week.

It wouldn't have bothered me so much if I wouldn't get my neighbors mail all the time. Plus I get mail all the time addressed to the people that lived here before we did. I contacted them and they said they had their mail forwarded months ago and didn't know why I kept getting it.

These USPS people are all but out of a job. You'd think they'd **** a little less and maybe try to make people like them a little more before it's really too late. And it's not like they have the greatest reputation in the world either. I mean, there's a reason the phrase, "Going Postal" is a household saying now.

(Fade up Lost style background whispering)

(Queue ghostly breathy whisper: "This Story has No End!")

(Fade out Lost style background whispering)

Makes me wonder how companies like Thomann in Germany manage to survive.

I ordered a guitar from them a while back - shipping was free and it was here within 3 days

And before anyone says "it's included in the price" - I paid the same price as was being quoted by several other UK based companies who DID add shipping to the cost.