I have a minty Genz Benz Shuttlemax 9.2 I just picked up today from local FedEx office. Expecting a delivery for a new Ibanez SR805 anytime. Sucks looking at my new amp and not be able to try it out without a bass.
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I feel your pain, but I gotta ask: You've been a TB member for over four years, but you don't actually own a bass? 
Yes, I just sold it Sunday to purchase a new one. Not having a bass feels like a limb was cut off. I think I'd rather not have a car than a bass.I feel your pain, but I gotta ask: You've been a TB member for over four years, but you don't actually own a bass?
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Well, if you didn't have a car you wouldn't have been able to pick up your amp. Then they would deliver your new bass and you'd be in pretty much the same position, except in reverse. Painful as it might be now, you're better off this way. With any luck you'll be happy happy any minute now....
FedEx doesn't just leave stuff on your porch and drive away like those other guys, do they?
Learned during the "sell basses I don't use a lot to help fund college for children" days, most all residential deliveries can be "Drop and Go" events. Part of why I shipped USPS and had them go to the Post Office to sign for things.
Pictured below is how Fed Ex delivered an amp to my home. Luckily, I had the tracking number and had gone to their site and subscribed to emailed updates. When "DELIVERED" showed up and they had not dropped it off to wifey at her work, I sort of went into a panic and drove home to find it 300 yards from our home and about 10 feet from the street. My posted thread title might be done without the words "Waiting for".
UPS knows to drop it to wifey(saves him 20 miles) or move the cow-blocking rope and drive to our home to deliver stuff.
Pictured below is how Fed Ex delivered an amp to my home. Luckily, I had the tracking number and had gone to their site and subscribed to emailed updates. When "DELIVERED" showed up and they had not dropped it off to wifey at her work, I sort of went into a panic and drove home to find it 300 yards from our home and about 10 feet from the street. My posted thread title might be done without the words "Waiting for".
UPS knows to drop it to wifey(saves him 20 miles) or move the cow-blocking rope and drive to our home to deliver stuff.
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Wow! That's a gorgeous SR!! Congrats!!!
Cliff Bordwell
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@biggredd : please post an update on how that bass is. Only a 4 string SR bass lives here and the one you finally got has produced some GAS.
I've only had about ten minutes with it at home. I won't really get to test it until Tuesday at rehearsal. So far I love it.
Could be worse, could be DHL. I was expecting a package last Friday and got it the next day on Saturday which sounds like a really minor issue but here's the real kicker... This package was sitting less than 15 minutes away 3 DAYS before that then they decided to "transfer" it to USPS. What could have been delivered that Tues or Wed. ended up sitting around for 3 days??? DHL is the worst, at least around here, imo.
You think waiting for the FedEx guy sucks, try waiting for a custom build. I initiated my 3rd one in four years yesterday. I won't see the bass until this time next year. Ugh!
Fortunately, I have my two other custom builds to play until it shows up!
Fortunately, I have my two other custom builds to play until it shows up!
I currently have an item from Sweetwater sitting in a postal parcel box. The key provided doesn't work. Going on day 3 with the local post office on getting this resolved.
At least Fedex leaves stuff on my porch.
At least Fedex leaves stuff on my porch.
I feel your pain, but I gotta ask: You've been a TB member for over four years, but you don't actually own a bass?
Wait, wait... You've been a TB member for over four years and you only have ONE bass?!?!? I admire your restraint.
I work at UPS. I can tell you folks firsthand: avoid sending your bass, or amplifiers through delivery services if possible. Whether the box says, "Fragile... Do Not Stack... And So On," it almost always means nothing to the loader or unloader.
If it weighs over 70 pounds, there is 99% guarantee that it will be "dropped", (hopefully gently,) from ~3 or 4 feet, from the conveyor belt to what we call the bulk chute. (Anything over 70 pounds, 6 feet in length, or 4 feet in height can not go through the "standard" sorting process, and is considered bulk.)
My advise for shipping guitars and basses is to make a case out of wood, and stuff it with protective material around the actual case.
I am not saying stay away from delivery services, because something like a pedal or two, cables, small accessories or something should be fine- but when you have a long guitar case, or a heavy amplifier, I feel I must warn of the dangers involved.
From my standpoint, I tend to take extra care of such items, as I know what's in the box when I see the manufacturers logo on the side.
If it weighs over 70 pounds, there is 99% guarantee that it will be "dropped", (hopefully gently,) from ~3 or 4 feet, from the conveyor belt to what we call the bulk chute. (Anything over 70 pounds, 6 feet in length, or 4 feet in height can not go through the "standard" sorting process, and is considered bulk.)
My advise for shipping guitars and basses is to make a case out of wood, and stuff it with protective material around the actual case.
I am not saying stay away from delivery services, because something like a pedal or two, cables, small accessories or something should be fine- but when you have a long guitar case, or a heavy amplifier, I feel I must warn of the dangers involved.
From my standpoint, I tend to take extra care of such items, as I know what's in the box when I see the manufacturers logo on the side.
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