...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?
 

X2a works for me. So there.

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no longer valid which directed me to find a file that wasn't there.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.

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

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.

Remember spacey, shipping (in today's parlance) actually means "shipping and handling". Shipping may be $4.37 for those $25 2oz. parts but the other $10.63 is for the shipping clerks time and the packaging ($0.63). 

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.

Most of the time when I pay for shipping, stuff is delivered on a truck.  I paid for a ship, though.  It's a bit of a letdown.

I Am not working right today...

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. 

John I think the USPS is great too. BUT...

I have to pay for a post office box. It's not much but still a yearly fee and I have
to travel to the postal office to send or retrieve my mail.
Now the strange thing about it is that there are folks living down the road
and miles away that can stick a box by the road and the folks at the post office
will get in vehicles and travel all the way to their homes and deliver or pickup their mail for free! 

Now that seems backwards to me but then again....I'm not a government employee.