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03-08-2021, 05:01 PM
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I just got notification of a UPS shipping delay due to a Train Derailment !
A FARGIN' TRAIN DERAILMENT ! No, I didn't have any choice on the shipper.
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03-08-2021, 10:22 PM
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Got a box of motors direct from Estes via USPS shipped on March 3rd from Penrose, received March 6th here just south of Seattle. That's about as fast as ground shipment gets.
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03-09-2021, 12:29 PM
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I finally got my box today. I ordered a body tube to replace a damaged one. Needless to say, even with the careful packaging, I received a damaged tube. And it's bent at what would have been the last inch of the tube I'm replacing. Guess I'm going to have to build the kit now.
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03-09-2021, 07:31 PM
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Hi GH,  Sorry, you have all the luck! Hope the train didn't flatten your package, too! My experience seems minor compared to yours. I only had a USPS Priority Mail shipment that went out from Massachusetts on Feb. 17, 2021, and was just delivered to my home in Mississippi today. It took 20 days (10 times the normal service time) for a USPS Priority Mail package that was supposed to take only 2 days. I didn't get a choice on the shipper either. Then again, I had a Christmas package that a family member sent me through USPS on December 20, 2020, but the package did not get delivered here until February 3, 2021. It took 45 days to make the trip from central Pennsylvania to northern Mississippi! Wow! I think a horse drawn wagon would have been faster. The honest truth is, I have a friend who is a Package Handler, who told me yesterday that they have 5 people out who tested positive with COVID-19 right now on just their crew alone! Another team said that they have 5 people out with COVID-19 on their team also. So, looks like the package handlers are in short supply all over because they have to work in close proximity to one another, allowing germs and sickness to spread easily, and ultimately causing much of the delays because all the freight carriers are buried in freight with too few package handlers to sort it. Therefore, the freight just sits until they can get to it. Freight handlers aren't necessarily paid the best wages, and they are required to do back-breaking work at furious speeds. Most of them come into work even if they are sick because they are living paycheck to paycheck and don't want to be off work for an extended period of time and, thus, lose their income. When they do come into work, they will often spread their sickness or they get sick or sicker, and end up having to be off work anyway. Kind of a rotten Catch-22. Kind regards, Jeff Jenkins aka: Faithwalker NAR #46879 SR Last edited by Faithwalker : 03-10-2021 at 07:43 AM.
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03-10-2021, 09:31 AM
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My package in this instance is shoes, and is now moving along.
Doubt the derailment damaged them.
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03-10-2021, 09:39 AM
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Ahhh, the shoes were at a walking pace. 
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03-10-2021, 09:54 AM
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As the story goes, our 1973 Plymouth station wagon was supposed to be a base model, medium green inside and out. It got crushed in a train derailment, so they made Dad a deal on the Satellite Regent model, gold with wood paneling and a lot more bells and whistles. Ashes to ashes, Plymouths to rust.
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Bill Eichelberger NAR 79563 http://wallyum.blogspot.com/ I miss being SAM 0058 Build floor: Centuri Mini Dactyl Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Marauder, Shrike, SST Shuttle In paint: Canaroc Starfighter Scorpion Estes F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II Semroc Cyber III Ready to fly: Estes - Solar Sailer II Semroc - Earmark, Groonie Der V 1/2
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03-10-2021, 01:57 PM
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Reminds me of Geoffry Kerbel's dragster story :-)
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Bill, Many here remember Geoffrey Kerbel. MR competitor, all around good guy, etc. We hung out a bit during NARAM 60 and he showed pictures/described his ~ 70 Satellite Wagon that had an insane big block fire breathing engine that he'd installed. "How'd you do?" I asked. Best answer ever - "Twelfth but not last!" Bob p.s. he also showed pics of his slot car dragsters. His descriptions of the hand-built chassis, re-wound motors, tires, etc. were impressive.
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03-10-2021, 02:04 PM
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Yes, I actually got to fly with him at the NARAM outside of Cleveland in 2013. We occasionally talked cars on occasion when I was still working nights. (i.e. The good old days.)
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Bill Eichelberger NAR 79563 http://wallyum.blogspot.com/ I miss being SAM 0058 Build floor: Centuri Mini Dactyl Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Marauder, Shrike, SST Shuttle In paint: Canaroc Starfighter Scorpion Estes F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II Semroc Cyber III Ready to fly: Estes - Solar Sailer II Semroc - Earmark, Groonie Der V 1/2
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