The post office lost my steel.

Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 6 Apr 2006 8:48 am

I shipped one of my steels to MSA so they could copy the knee lever setup for my millennium, and the post office lost it. I shipped it March 24. it was supposed to be delivered the 30th or 31st. Apparntly it was lost while in transit from L.A. to Dallas.

I've got to go file a bunch of forms to try to put a trace on it.

How can anybody misplace a package that large?

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David Wren · Post by **David Wren** » 6 Apr 2006 8:57 am

Oh no, what a horror story. Good luck.

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John Sluszny · Post by **John Sluszny** » 6 Apr 2006 9:02 am

Unbelievable!!!Hope you'll find it back.Let us know.[This message was edited by John Sluszny on 06 April 2006 at 10:03 AM.]

Randy Reeves · Post by **Randy Reeves** » 6 Apr 2006 9:25 am

sorry to hear.
there are lots of honkytonks between LA and Dallas.
have the postman start looking there.

Larry Strawn · Post by **Larry Strawn** » 6 Apr 2006 9:33 am

Why is it that the thought of the Post Office losing something does not surprise me???

Lots of luck, hope you find it safe and sound!

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Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 6 Apr 2006 9:44 am

How can anybody misplace a package that large?

If it can be done, the PO can do it.[This message was edited by Charlie McDonald on 06 April 2006 at 10:44 AM.]

Colm Chomicky · Post by **Colm Chomicky** » 6 Apr 2006 10:06 am

Sorry to hear that, seems it would be extremely difficult to lose -- especially if you are sure the labels could not come off. I've had some stuff be notoriously slow in transit.

(However, if you check the highway route from LA to Dallas, Area 51 comes in mind.)

Larry Strawn · Post by **Larry Strawn** » 6 Apr 2006 10:19 am

Colm,,,,
"area 51 comes in mind"
Are you suggesting extra-terestrial steel players???
Man that's out of this world!! lol..

I would rather think this is just extra slow transent instead of lost!! Hoping it shows up!

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Wayne Franco · Post by **Wayne Franco** » 6 Apr 2006 10:31 am

Sorry to hear about that Mike. Hope it shows up soon. I just sent my Emmons to Lousiana. I took 3+ hours to pack it,took it to Fedex personally and it arrived there yesterday. (in one piece). Its the first time I set everything up online first. Thankfully I did it right. Again good luck Mike in get tracking down your steel!

Wayne

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 6 Apr 2006 10:49 am

Mike my friend I feel for your loss,I hope that your guitar will show up in good shape.A few years ago the post office lost my Peavey LTD head that I had shipped to Miss.After two months I filled out the forms.. I had insured it,The post office thought that I was pulling a scam and they told me so,which got me really P.O'd and I placed a complaint to get this person fired...anyway they located my amp at the post office in Meridian,they said that the Peavey plant was to big and they couldn't find the right building.Thanks to the wonderfull people at Peavey they helped this mailperson find their way over there and finally dropped it off.Going Postal

Gere Mullican · Post by **Gere Mullican** » 6 Apr 2006 10:55 am

I hope you have better luck with the post office than I did with Northwest airlines. My Marlen steel was sent to me from Phoenix and it never arrived in Nashville. The claims department would not even talk to me about it. About a year later it showed up at the Unclaimed Baggage place in Alabama. I never got the steel or one penny out of them, so I wish you good luck.
Gere

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 6 Apr 2006 11:03 am

Just a thought...

Have you checked all the chiropractic offices and orthopedic clinics between California and Texas?

The last guy that carried it's gotta be in one of 'em! (LOL!)

Jim Eaton · Post by **Jim Eaton** » 6 Apr 2006 11:06 am

Mike sorry to hear about your problem.
I have to ask, you couldn't get this info to them in the form of a chart of the set up? Or, was this to get the placement of the KLs on the guitar the same as your use to?
See ya soon.
JE:-)>

A. J. Schobert · Post by **A. J. Schobert** » 6 Apr 2006 11:44 am

Mike I hope your post isn't a sign to me I'm waiting on ups to deliver my new PSG, on 04-06-06! you know even if your guitar is insured it is so hard to get your money I really feel your pain.

Bill Hatcher · Post by **Bill Hatcher** » 6 Apr 2006 11:49 am

You turned you steel over to an outfit that is run by the United States Government!???!?

UPS or Fedex is always better for heavy packages.

Kevin Ruddell · Post by **Kevin Ruddell** » 6 Apr 2006 11:55 am

Mike ;

I had a Fender lost by USPS even with tracking . It turned up after someone spotted it sitting in the warehouse where it had been all along. The mediocre job done in addressing the packaging by the seller didn't help the situation . You may want to ask your local USPS station clerk and your main hub clerk to please do a double check around their warehouse for you

Bill Moore · Post by **Bill Moore** » 6 Apr 2006 1:02 pm

Shipping a large package via the USPS parcel post is SLOW. From my experience, it needs to be missing at least 30 days before they consider it a problem. I'll bet it will turn up, although it may take a couple more weeks.

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Stephen Gambrell · Post by **Stephen Gambrell** » 6 Apr 2006 1:44 pm

Shipping via ANYBODY is risky business, due to the sheer number of boxes they all route each day. Some mistakes are bound to occur. I guess I've been luckier than most, I've only had one package damaged, and it was coming here. I'm not gonna say who it was, but it was NOT the post office! I only ship through USPS, since they're all we've got in this little bitty town, but they've always done a very good job for me, coming and going.
Mike, I AM curious about something---You said that you shipped your MSA so the setup could be copied---Wouldn't it have been easier, and CHEAPER, to have just CALLED???

Don Discher · Post by **Don Discher** » 6 Apr 2006 2:03 pm

Herby Steiner shipped an order to me on March 7th and I got it March 31st.He shipped a replacement order on March 27th believing the first order was lost in the mail and I received it on April 3rd, same package,same destination only 24 days for 1st order and 7 days for the 2nd, very strange.I can see being a little nervous but maybe too early to panic .

Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 6 Apr 2006 2:46 pm

Stephen, I have a wonderful but quite unsusal vertical knee lever, and a wrist lever (both made by Tom Bradshaw,) that Kyle said he needed to see in order to duplicate. I also have inner and outer RKLs and the way they are set up isn't something I can describe. It has to be seen in order to be replicated.

At any rate, I just got back from the post office, where the supervisor told me that it must still be in transit, and could possibly take another 2 or 3 weeks to reach Dallas. She pointed out that it's practically impossible to lose such a large package.

And the address lable is in 48 point type. Very large, very easy to read.

All I can do at the moment is wait and hope it turns up.

At any rate, I sent them my spare steel, (the mica/dieboard one, so if it is gone forever, at least I will not have lost maple/lacquer one, which I truly love.

Gerry Walker (the fellow who males the Stereo Steel amps) told me he thought that my maple guitar is the single best sounding MSA he'd ever heard. I don't know about that, as I can only compare it to my mica one, but it is definatley the better sounding of the 2. I expect the millennium to sound different. I hope I like it as much.

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Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 6 Apr 2006 2:59 pm

Mike, like Jim Eaton, I also have to ask - wouldn't multiple photographs of the setup have worked instead of shipping the whole damn guitar to them?

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 6 Apr 2006 3:10 pm

I bought a Telecaster neck from a company that is less than 100 miles away from me. They shipped it Post Office Parcel Post (low priority), which should have taken no more than 5 to 7 days. The neck took nearly 3 week to arrive! That's 3 weeks after they had shipped it. I don't know where it was for 3 weeks, but it Did arrive eventually. It was probably sitting in a back room somewhere, or sitting in a half-empty truck waiting a week for the truck to be filled before they moved it.

Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 6 Apr 2006 4:13 pm

wouldn't multiple photographs of the setup have worked instead of shipping the whole damn guitar to them?

I doubt it. The thing is, this is the first Millennium they are building with a wrist lever, which as I stated was built be Tom Bradshaw, and is not a standard MSA feature. Ditto for the vertical. I spent a lot of time with Tom getting these exactly the way I want them, and I wanted to be sure the Millennium would be set up the exact same way. The kind folks at MSA are custom making these 2 non-standard levers for me.

I don't think a photo or serties of photos would Kyle and Johnny enough information, particularly on the workings of the wrist lever, to allow them to make exact duplicates. If this guitar does not turn up in the next couple of weeks, I'm going to ship them my other one, but this time I'm going to use Fed Ex, overnight delivery.

Tracy Sheehan · Post by **Tracy Sheehan** » 6 Apr 2006 4:39 pm

And always put the address to where it is going and your address inside the package also.The outside address can be rubbed off in shipping.Tracy

Greg Sullivan · Post by **Greg Sullivan** » 6 Apr 2006 5:16 pm

I think the post office employee's are "monkeys".