Talk about fast delivery!!!!!!!!!

Bill Martino

Bill Martino

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I have my problems with UPS (latest is a battle over duty charges. They keyed in an extra digit on a parcel's value and hit me with ten times the normal duty charge and I'm still fighting with them about this one. Talked with nine people at their Brokerage House facility and only one of nine knew what I was talking about! Is that a low competency percentage or what?)

But here's the good news and I've always been one to give the devil his dues.

A guy from Swizerland ordered a couple of khukuris yesterday and needed them in a hurry for a trip to Africa. He opted to have them sent UPS express at a cost of near $100. I got email from him this AM and he's got the khukuris in his hand! This is about 12 hour delivery from Reno to Bern, Switzerland and I'm amazed. Hats off to UPS for great service this time.
 
:eek: WOW!!!! That is fast!! Good luck with your problem Uncle Bill, don't let them get away with it!:mad:
 
The fastest I ever got mine was 6 days I think. However I'm beginning to think that they lost my 12" AK or some mailman has a new knife :(
 
I sent a 12" AK to Golok, he is in Mayalsia, about 1 or 2 months ago. It was right around the WTC incident, like the week after that. He still has not gotten it. I am begining to think someone else may have decided to keep it also, just like Bruise's. Maybe it is just something to do with a 12" AK.
 
I once got a khukuri sent to me in Hawaii in 3 or 4 days by USPS--that ain't too shabby:D
 
12 hours from Reno to Switzerland is doing some fancy flyin annit?

One time I was on a 737 outta Dallas Ft.Worth and we were behind schedule. When the pilot turned the corner onto the runway he already had clearance. I was setting in the tail section and I could almost feel it whip, We actually done about 3 fishtails until he got it straightened out.
First time I ever road with a hot rod pilot, it was fun and we made up our time with some to spare into Tulsa.
I have always wondered what kinda muscle car he drove.:)
 
The last time I flew out of Chicago, our pilot announced thatwe were headed into weather, and he was cleared to climb above it, but would have to do it right away - buckle up, seats upright, and wait. I swear he was grinning - you could hear it in his voice. There were maybe 20 of us headed for Denver - almost empty flight. He stood that 727 on its' tail, and went to the wall with it. The attendant said later we were at "military level". We flew over one of the most beautiful thunderheads, with a full light show, almost all the way into Stapleton. Everything was dull after that one :)
 
I think the only thing more beautiful is if a man could get out and walk in the clouds and smell the ozone.:)
I've only been over one small thunderstorm and can barely imagine what something you got to experience would be like.
There's memories and then there's memories.:)
 
We were flying along and above a segment of a storm front, nearly all the way between Ohare and Stapleton. We were never told out altitude, but about 20 min. into the flight no one had their little fresh air nozzles on - it got chilly. Somewhere around 30,000, the earth's curvature is very obvious. We could see a full arc. We left Ohare at 5:30, and the sun was on the horizon. When we hit the clouds, it was almost shining into them from below, through varying densities, making colors from flat black, through blues to pink, and stark white. There were visible lightening bolts, and internal lights flashing from those we could not see. When we hit a hole in the clouds, the air was so clear you could see yard lights, and make out cars on the roads. As I said, every flight I took over the years after that one were dull.
 
The local post services are notorious for having things disappear. Cost me 3 orders in the last two years worth about $300. I usually have my stuff via UPS or FedEx nowadays. May those light-fingered individuals who stole my knives drop them through their foot point first....

Still waiting on a WWII 16.5". Hopefully this time the thieving gits will miss this one.

Andrew Limsk

Originally posted by rkenny@wcupa.edu
I sent a 12" AK to Golok, he is in Mayalsia, about 1 or 2 months ago. It was right around the WTC incident, like the week after that. He still has not gotten it. I am begining to think someone else may have decided to keep it also, just like Bruise's. Maybe it is just something to do with a 12" AK.
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We must have hit everything just right to get that 12 hours. I think I'd have to check quite a few flight schedules to get my body from Reno to Bern is 12 hours.
 
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