Sprue Bros Tour Across America

General Discussion General Modeling Discussion
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I ordered AFV Club’s Churchill AVRE w/ small box girder bridge (a Grail kit that has been on my wish list for a long time) from Sprue Brothers last week. But my package seems to be headed someplace other than Hawaii! Tracking indcated it left Missouri, then went to Massachusetts and New Hampshire, then back to Massachusetts, and is now in Connecticut. Is the mail man lost? Is there a city named Honolulu somewhere on the East Coast? [:P] Does anyone have a possible explanation? All my previous orders went immediately due west as they should have.

When my package does arrive (hopefully), it should be awarded frequent flyer miles or something. Gosh, I hope it doesn’t cross the Atlantic and get to me via Europe, Asia, and finally across the Pacific!

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As the saying goes, “The world is round. We’ll get there eventually.”

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Severe weather over the past week has impacted shipping quite a bit.

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If it’s coming via USPS, they seem to do some really weird things. I won a car radio from Pennsylvania and the seller sent it to Kentucky.

It went to Florida, then to Missouri and then to Kentucky.

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It will get there eventually… as soon as they find someone who reads Hawaiian. [;)]

Gary

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After 27 years as a mailman. Nothing surprises me anymore. The reason its in New England is it probably got put in the wrong shipping container and went that way not this,way but that way. Massachusetts has the plant that handles all of N.E. packages. Why IT went to N.H. and CT I don’t know. Some genius will eventually figure out the machines aren’t reading the barcode correctly and get it sorted out

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I’ve seen this sort of thing happen every once in a while since package tracking has become so prevalent. Actually, thinking back, it’s happened quite a few times to me over the years.

Whomever coined the phrase ‘the straightest line between two points is a straight line’ must not have worked in the shipping business.

Got a kick out of your thread title, btw. [:)]

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“USPS. Fast Service…no matter how long you wait.”

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I just hope it doesn’t change to “World Tour”! [:S]

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Good luck Real G!!!

Being New England I’m suspecting some Lovecraftian stuff going on… [6]

If your package makes it down here I’m try to grab it…

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Well, after spending 24 hrs sightseeing in Connecticut, it is apparently on the move again.

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My PREVIOUS mail order supplier for my meds was in Harrisburg which is 1-1/2 hours driving time from here. They first send them to somewhere in Ohio. Then to somewhere west of the Mississippi for two or more stops. After that, a couple of more stops till they finally get back here. They say 7 to 10 days and that’s when it sometimes gets here (if I’m lucky).

Stay Safe.

Jim [cptn]

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Be cool if it showed up with stickers of everywhere it has been, like the old steamer trunks in cartoons.

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Dang Armornut, our minds are slowly becoming one - I had that thought when I first posted!

You’d better get your head looked at. [:P] By a puh-sicologist.

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Already there my friend…and I remember that cartoon too. Weren’t they sniffing glue while watching TV?

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No, I think they were picking their noses. We should take a FSM poll; Which do you want to be?

  1. A Puh-sicologist

  2. A roadrunner. Beep-beep! Zip! Bang!

And a little known fact was that when David Bowie recorded “Let’s Dance”, his back up vocalist was none other than Elmer Fudd:

“Let’s dance. Put on you wed shoose and dance the bwues.”

I definitely need to see a puh-sicologist. [:P]

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I woukd hold short…if the guy who delivers your package has buck teeth, big ears, and claims to have taken a left turn in Albuquerque then YES seek professional help…he might be a whaskily wabbit.

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[:D]…with a twist…

I actually had that happen on one from overseas some years back!!!

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Road runner…definetly a roadrunner BEEP BEEP ZIP BANG.

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My dad once commented that I most closely resembled the coyote, because even at an early age I was always concocting overly complicated plans that were frustrated for one reason or another.

Breaking news: My model has mysteriously hyper-jumped to Honolulu overnight, according to the tracking. I am curious to see what the condition of the package will be. I hope it does not arrive crushed and filled with ice water like one of my Hannants orders!