Toasted Almond
RIP 1952-2016
Nice touch UPS!
Rob's creds for ethics, restoring, shipping, etc., are impeccable.
Rob's creds for ethics, restoring, shipping, etc., are impeccable.
OMG! Its like viewing pictures from some kind of massacre. My sympathies.
I am blessed to live near Rob and was able to pick up my Merrylander 1020 in person.
hmmm, happened to me ALL the time when I ordered from the States through ebay etc (I'm in vancouver Canada).
Thanks to customs messing with my purchases, losing them and finding them weeks later, and opening and repackaging them, I no longer do mail order from the US for anything valuable or one of a kind. It's a shame, I'm limited to Canadian purchases as a result, but I've never had another hickup without dealing with UPS and the border customs.
That's why I'm a craigslist troll now.
Cheers,
Don
Mind too that it's rigorous working there.
someone said something about a sure way to get top flight shipping pay a fee and its almost a guarantee i cant remember but a search shoulf ferret it out...we should all start using it
wait, i don't get it.
can someone explain why UPS would open the box and repack it like that? and then throw it around to be trashed. i don't get it.... what would be a reason to open someone's package that they're supposed to deliver - they're not customs or police.
edit: i read the whole thing and it seems like it did cross the border, but still, isn't it the custom's job to repack it to the way it was? this really sucks and pisses me off as if it happened to me.
Just finished drawing the full size plans for the case and sent them to my plotter - nice having that big DesignJet. As soon as I get another case off the bench I will start on a new case for it, same African Mahogany. I should hear from UPS pretty soon, they know me well enough that I do not expect any arguments.
There was two or three pages of customs paperwork, so I used one of the transparent pouches on the box and put the shipping label on the top of the papers. It seems that whoever took out the customs papers managed to lose the shipping label so it is quite possible that UPS opened the box and did not re-pack the way I had it packed. All I want at the moment is to get it back here, restore it and build a new case. Then get it safely to David again or if I can't restore it then send him a check.