The Steel Guitar Forum

without me...




thanks UPS

The second entry from the top is the scary one...

yes, interesting short cut,must be some UPS thing, it came from North Dakota all the way to Murfreesboro,and then went to California, and from there back to Smyrna, maybe still has to go to Alaska before it gets delivered to me lol

I used to load planes for UPS and this is an all-too common problem. It'll get there (ultimately)
Thank heaven it's not a human heart in an igloo cooler bound for some poor sap waiting in Kentucky - right?

hate to see that, but as long as they got sight of it, you're steel should be ok. As long as it doesn't all of a sudden become two packages that are being tracked

If it is any consolation Damir, at least you are helping pay for my grandkids college fund... my son works at UPS corporate in accounting...

You know that the Zip code is so-called because packages are zipped across the country a couple of times before delivery, right? This is normal practice, business as usual.
I do hope you get your guitar back soo, and unharmed.

Don't worry, Damir. They've got lotsa digits left, and they won't run out of numbers before it gets to you.

Damir Besic wrote:without me...

I'm so sorry....
It's too big to lose, right? Right?

Talk about stressful! I can't hardly sleep when one of my axes is in transit. Good luck to you!

Damir, you are a super picker, remember ode chap when we had Tea in 1997? ish Kearney Nebraska...Oh baby, i would not want to run into you now 15 years later, you are second to none on that machine, love you old mate. Bye, old england chap!!!!

Larry my old buddy, I am far from super picker, but thanks for the kind words...are you still in Kearney? still pickin'? it's been 15 years already? geez, time flies, I was 29 when I came over, and I am 47 now...oh geez...it must be EU-US time difference lol ...maybe I'll get younger if I fly back lol...well, maybe I'll get this guitar in the next 15 lol

I can tell you what happened. Steels and amps don't ride the conveyor belts, but go from dock-sort-dock on carts pulled by miniature towmotors.
The steel likely fell off the cart by the stack for the outbound dock for the San Francisco-bound trailer, although some idiot MIGHT have forgotten to remove it from the trailer that went from Illinois to Tennessee, and then not noticed it sitting in the trailer in the Frisco-bound dock. Either way, it got put in a westbound trailer without being scanned.
They're SUPPOSED to scan every package as they put them on a trailer, and FXG's tracking system (I think) will show not only departure and arrival scans, but unloading and loading scans, so they'd know whether it left a trailer.
But it would take a couple days to get from Tennessee to San Francisco.

it finally arrived, in full glory

I like those Dekley pedals.

Charlie McDonald wrote:I like those Dekley pedals.

Charlie, interesting enough, they were wrapped in tape, so they are like new, I like everything about Dekley, they are very good guitars

Jeeez...I could have picked it up in Hodgkins IL and had it to you 8 hours later while visiting daughter at MTSU.

William Polka wrote:Jeeez...I could have picked it up in Hodgkins IL and had it to you 8 hours later while visiting daughter at MTSU.

and I would have bought you a nice lunch too

Wow, that steel looks totally pimp, Damir. I am partial to the finish and the fret markers, plus so many great players have worked their bar on Dekleys, but the "D" pedals really pushes it over the top for me.
Very Nice!

Daniel Policarpo wrote:Wow, that steel looks totally pimp, Damir. I am partial to the finish and the fret markers, plus so many great players have worked their bar on Dekleys, but the "D" pedals really pushes it over the top for me.
Very Nice!

and comes with a nice " Thomas" case as well.... a lot of guitar for the money

Or I could have picked it up in MPLS and driven it down last weekend when I was at SPBGMA Great looking Dekley!