NBD (New Bike Delayed)

[Marty Gierke, Stewartstown PA]

Awaiting a frame from the Left Coast, due for delivery tomorrow, and checked progress just now. Not what you want to see:

UPS is the carrier, shipped via Bikeflights. Fingers crossed.

Marty "holding my breath" in PA

[Curtis McKenzie]

Hoping for a good outcome for you.  

Being the recipient of that notice would be a nightmare scenario.

Best regards,

Curtis

El Cajon CA

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[Paul Brodek]

Oooof, yeah, best wishes for a uneventful outcome.

I had probably the minty-est complete vintage bike I'd ever bought run into dark clouds shipped via FedEx from Birmingham, AL to Jersey. Package got late, tracking showed the box going back and forth between AL and the FedEx Memphis hub 3 times. 3 times. As if there clearly was a serious problem, and neither the origin nor the hub wanted to take responsibility. It finally arrived in new packaging, two large square boxes piled on top of each other and taped together to form a vertical box, the right size/shape for a refriderator, The bike was stuffed inside, sitting wheelie-style on the back wheel, fork at about my eyelevel, with the front wheel and some other parts basically just tossed inside, loose and rattling around.

The bad news was the horror show that greeted me when I opened the box. The good news was although it no longer looked unused/unridden, the frame only picked up a couple/few small marks, and only the rims needed replacing. It could have been considerably worse. Fork got pretty tweaked, but Peter Weigle straightened that out. Seller's discount for all the damage/trouble covered all the work.

So FedEx trashes stuff, too, and for Marty, things can look/sound pretty ugly but still turn out OK. Keep yer fingers crossed, keep yer eyes on yer lucky stars. While I try to steal yer Lucky Charms! Sorry, St. Patty's day's just around the corner.....

Paul Brodek

Hillsdale, NJ USA

[Ian A]

Probably a fender-bender involving the UPS truck, possibly tagging another vehicle. In all likelyhood, the cargo is undamaged and will be loaded onto another truck once they free up a spare vehicle.

IanA Alberta Canada (previously four years in the freight industry).

[Philip Barrett]

UPS & Fedex are dealing with significant system wide delays right now, it's affecting us at work & my Bikeflights shipment of last week was delayed 3 days too. Fedex have gone from being the carrier of record to 2nd choice at best.

It also showed up with heavy damage to the packaging, fortunately I bought the insurance so when I finally get back to the house I'll see what survived & what didn't. Bikeflights responded to my initial email within 10 minutes with a real human being no less so I'm hopeful for a good outcome either way.