Shipping Rant - Page 2

Ziltoid · #21 03-05-2010, 05:11 PM

Man those are horror stories!

Another bad side to their sucky'ness is that when you're outside of the states it's just to expensive to get anything shipped to you by anything else then usps

lwrthnwhalepoop · #22 03-05-2010, 05:57 PM

The little pencil-necked bed-wetting thumb-sucking needle-dicked bug-f***cker USPS inspector-drone in St. Louis will replace the customer's Roscoe with an eBay-bought pink Chinese-made short-scale four-string with lipstick pickups and a frilly tassel hanging off the headstock. Then, after filling out the three days' worth of paperwork (not that there was anything else for him to do), he'll take the Roscoe home (to his mom's basement, naturally) and spend the next six months drinking wine coolers, watching M*A*S*H reruns, and trying - unsuccessfully - to learn "Louie, Louie" on it with it plugged into his mid-1970's Radio Shack cassette deck.

VroomVroom · #23 03-05-2010, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by lwrthnwhalepoop

...he'll take the Roscoe home (to his mom's basement, naturally) and spend the next six months drinking wine coolers, watching M*A*S*H reruns, and trying - unsuccessfully - to learn "Louie, Louie" on it with it plugged into his mid-1970's Radio Shack cassette deck.

I'm proud to say that this effort only took me five months. Woo hoo - I'm, like, 30 days better than your average postal employee. I still can't play "Louie Louie" worth a damn, but I blame the wine coolers.

lwrthnwhalepoop · #24 03-05-2010, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by VroomVroom

I'm proud to say that this effort only took me five months. Woo hoo - I'm, like, 30 days better than your average postal employee. I still can't play "Louie Louie" worth a damn, but I blame the wine coolers.

LMAO

But brother, you play it with such soul that we don't care if you still can't quite cop all those swirling changes and modulations. We love you anyway.

ubone · #25 03-05-2010, 06:33 PM

I know we aren't supposed to get political on TB but, a very wise and honorable WWII vet once told me many years ago in my youth that he loved his country and the people populating it so much so that he would give his life to protect it and the freedoms it represents, but he didn't have to love the government.. My Grandfather was a pretty smart cookie and to this day, in my advanced years I think of him often.

If anyone can name one thing that the Goobermint runs efficiently, I'd like to hear of it...

VroomVroom · #26 03-05-2010, 07:09 PM

Steve, your Grandpa said it well. I've been in the public sector for almost 10 years now. My humble-and-probably-not-worth-much opinion: it's the elected officials. Every two/four/six years there's a change in regime, with ample sweeping of house yet no such thing as accountability. I've seen good, smart people try to do things, only to be forced into sweeping change for change's sake. Taint pretty.

The USPS is an absolute prime example of resistance to change. The internet has totally revamped their marketspace, and they have no clue how to react to it. As the "snail mail" generations give way to folks who don't buy stamps, write checks, send Christmas cards, or have the first clue what "Registered, return receipt" means, the USPS will finally either learn to adapt or will simply disappear.

lwrthnwhalepoop · #27 03-05-2010, 07:34 PM

“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle merite.”
(“Every country has the government it deserves.”)
Joseph de Maistre
French diplomat and writer, 1753-1821

It's true. We elected these s**theads and scumbags, and we continue to allow corporate and other special interest groups to use them as their marionettes.

baltimore · #28 03-05-2010, 07:41 PM

Man ,if that was one of my Roscoes ,I would be going crazy!!That would be like death. I will try hard not to ship my Roscoes!Do not want the stress!

ubone · #29 03-06-2010, 01:58 AM

I'm certainly not the brightest bulb in my neck of the woods, but I'm old enough to have been witness to and in some instances even a small part of the many changes that have shaped our country since the early 50's. Granted very few were truly beneficially life changing, but that can be debated at some other time. Most of those changes came about because citizens had had enough of the crap the gubmint doles out. Sadly though, compromise and cause killing greed damper the best intentions, and what we've settled for in a large way, is mediocrity, apathy, and saps looking to the gubmint to solve their problems regardless the obvious danger inherent in that. (Big Momma gonna make baby feel all better) Those are the very clowns who’s ambition is to work for government institutions like USPS. Lifeless clods just plodding thru the routine, and collecting all of the table scrap perks working for the gubmint promises, at hard working taxpayer expense.
You want to experience a real cluster f#%k nightmare?? Try dealing with social security or Medicare sometime. Pour yourselves a stiff drink or chug the whole bottle and look at this. http://www.usdebtclock.org/ this little dose of reality should send you screaming into the night with cold sweats.
My Grandfather, and all those who fought and sacrificed for all of us would be ashamed to see the mess it's become.

We all should be as well.

JOME77 · #30 03-06-2010, 07:17 AM

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Originally Posted by RocketMusic

I told Gard my USPS sob story last night, and he suggested I add it here...

So my story involves an international shipment to Belgium. Belgium, I have come to learn, has some pretty tight customs policies. Whereas in most coutries, customs just adds on their taxes and passes the item through, Belgium more often than not wants all kinds of backstory & proof of payment. Well this freaked my customer out, and he just refused the shipment rather than deal with all of that. No prob, it should've just come back to me, right? I marked the package "return to sender" in the event of failure to deliver the package, so it should have been a no brainer.

A month goes by, still no bass back at my place. I call USPS, they say I need to initiate a trace and the trace might take as long as something ridiculous like 60-90 days. OK, it is what it is. About 2 months go by, and I get a call from a guy in Georgia, USA. He had just bought my bass at a USPS auction of "lost" items. He said it was really obvious once he got it that it belonged to me. Rocket Music was all over it inside and out... anyway, he wanted about $2K for the bass to which I said heck, no, it's my bass to begin with. I tried to take it up with USPS, but after many days and many hours of pushing a rope trying to get some sort of action, I just wrote the bass off and moved on with my life. It's not worth $2K to me to spend who knows how many hours fighting with a hopelessly inept beauracracy.

F those guys. No way, no how, is UPS anywhere near as bad as USPS. I've had a few problems with UPS over the years (I ship A LOT, it's to be expected). But UPS has resolved all of those issues quickly and properly. They're highly motivated to have me continue to use their services. USPS, on the other hand, is a bunch of gov't hacks who don't give a flyin' F about anyone or anything. IMHO

WOW!

Bummer Greg! You're a better man than me.
I guess though, after a while, you have to just deal with it. Otherwise it would eat you up.

LilRay · #31 03-06-2010, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by ubone

If anyone can name one thing that the Goobermint runs efficiently, I'd like to hear of it...

One (and only one) thing;

THEIR MOUTHS!

God Bless, Ray

**Freddels** · #32 03-06-2010, 08:06 AM

I have a mailbox at the end of my driveway. The mail (person) would just throw packages, that were too big for the box, on the ground. Sometimes they're not seen for a few days there. I complained to the post office. Now, they hide little notes inside the junk mail notifying us that a package is at the post office and that they are sorry that they missed us. They never get out of the vehicle so it was pretty probably that they would "miss us" even though we watch them out the window deliver the mail. If we don't look through the junk mail, we may miss that "final notice" before the pkg gets sent back. I use them as little as possible.

CactusmanDoug · #33 03-06-2010, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by VroomVroom

Steve, your Grandpa said it well. I've been in the public sector for almost 10 years now. My humble-and-probably-not-worth-much opinion: it's the elected officials. Every two/four/six years there's a change in regime, with ample sweeping of house yet no such thing as accountability. I've seen good, smart people try to do things, only to be forced into sweeping change for change's sake. Taint pretty.

Hey Jerry,

Everyone's opinion is as equally worthless or valuable depending on individual perspective. I will agree there is great inepptitude in our elected officials as they increasingly assimilate a parade of Jerry Springer rejects every other November, yet here's the big question...

Why are they there? How has the best system of goverment decayed to the disgusting condition which might best be described as irrepairable?

MHO?-

The PEOPLE.

The people put up with this crap because they want it (in general, not everyone of course). Oh, they don't want the ill effects of it...no sir. But they want what makes them feel good (or what they think makes them feel good) RIGHT NOW!

You can see that trend nationwide in unrepayable individual debt, unwanted pregnancies, drug and alcohol related trainwrecks and screwed up kids (which are the screwed up leaders of tomorrow) whose parents had other things to do than pony-up to being real parents and instilling core values not only by spending quality, formative time with their kids but also displaying respectable behavior in their everyday life.

The value of this post is described in it's first sentence.

Gard · #34 03-06-2010, 08:30 AM

Hey guys, as much as I may or may not agree with some of the more politically oriented comments here, we need to reel it back in a bit.

Discussion of politics is "verboten" here at TB, remember?

The point of the thread is to inform you of the incompetence of the United States Postal Service, not to jump on our government, those that run or work for it, and definitely not to become a "well I remember when I was a kid..." thread!

Stick to the direct topic, please - shipping related issues, whether with USPS, UPS, FedEx, or whomever.

Thanks!

CactusmanDoug · #35 03-06-2010, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Gard

Hey guys, as much as I may or may not agree with some of the more politically oriented comments here, we need to reel it back in a bit.

Discussion of politics is "verboten" here at TB, remember?

The point of the thread is to inform you of the incompetence of the United States Postal Service, not to jump on our government, those that run or work for it, and definitely not to become a "well I remember when I was a kid..." thread!

Stick to the direct topic, please - shipping related issues, whether with USPS, UPS, FedEx, or whomever.

Thanks!

Point taken...however this is not directed at anything "political". These are govenmental comments.

Yes, there is a difference.

Not to mention the fact that Roscoeheads have not only equal but special rights...

The right to unashamedly, spontaneously and for no apparent reason ...JACK ANY THREAD THEY WANT TO!!!

We find these rights to be inalienable.

Bipslapper · #36 03-06-2010, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by lwrthnwhalepoop

The little pencil-necked bed-wetting thumb-sucking needle-dicked bug-f***cker USPS inspector-drone in St. Louis will replace the customer's Roscoe with an eBay-bought pink Chinese-made short-scale four-string with lipstick pickups and a frilly tassel hanging off the headstock. Then, after filling out the three days' worth of paperwork (not that there was anything else for him to do), he'll take the Roscoe home (to his mom's basement, naturally) and spend the next six months drinking wine coolers, watching M*A*S*H reruns, and trying - unsuccessfully - to learn "Louie, Louie" on it with it plugged into his mid-1970's Radio Shack cassette deck.

You forgot, if he feels "Crazy" he might learn Smoke on the water ( Well, really just the intro!)

ubone · #37 03-06-2010, 11:51 AM

Well, I'm just damned happy that a certain shop that makes certain basses isn't managed, and operated with the same level of incompetence as the our guuhbburmint..

I'm done now. I don't feel any better, but I'm done.
I have to teach Jerry how to play Louie Louie now.. Jerry.. It's gonna take a lot of Tequila...

RocketMusic · #38 03-06-2010, 12:29 PM

Did someone say tequila? I hope your lesson rocks a little harder than that session

LilRay · #39 03-06-2010, 12:44 PM

Those guys have been in the Tequila

Percussion sounds like somebody "sand the floor"

Right hand circle......., Left hand Circle....... BIG CIRCLE

God Bless, Ray

JOME77 · #40 03-06-2010, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by ubone

Well, I'm just damned happy that a certain shop that makes certain basses isn't managed, and operated with the same level of incompetence as the our guuhbburmint..

I'm done now. I don't feel any better, but I'm done.
I have to teach Jerry how to play Louie Louie now.. Jerry.. It's gonna take a lot of Tequila...

"Louie Louie"! Now that's a classic! Some songs you tend to forget. Some songs you tend to remember.

I haven't played "Louie Louie" in many years but you know I still probably remember all but 2 or 3 of the chords to that tune!