Or their decline will continue! I have no problem with how long different services take for am item to arrive, but don’t tell me one day and then miss that expected delivery date by a country mile!
A day after the package was supposed to be delivered, it still has not even made it into the area? WTF, over? And this is not the first time this has happened. UPS or FedEx? Rarely a problem. USPS I understand is in trouble. If they continue to do business like this, their days are numbered IMO.
First class from Illinois to New Jersey and they cannot make it in 5 days? Again, WTF, over? The shipper sat on the package from Thursday 8/1 until Monday 8/5 which makes matters worse (over a week and it is not here) but the bulk of the problem is USPS.
I know USPS realizes there are problems and people are starting to go elsewhere (a snowball effect), they are trying, what with PM 2-day, 3-day free tracking and insurance but if they cannot get the package from point A to point B when they say they will (and in a reasonable amount of time), people will continue to increasingly go elsewhere.
You’re only just realizing? We stopped using them over a decade ago, too many incidences like that, and airplane parts ain’t cheap(and owners want them yesterday!). Not that FedEx and UPS don’t have issues now and again, but way more reliable. Perhaps it’s because they HAVE to do their jobs well to turn a nickel, without being funded by John Q. Publics taxes. :shrug:
I am realizing that USPS service has declined considerably in recent years, their service and reliability used to be considerably better than it is nowadays.
Why didn’t you use Priority Mail. I ship a lot of packages using the service and so far I have never had a problem. I suspect that it has pushed First Class to something less than first class.
I think the USPS does a great job. And their operating expenses, by the way, receive no taxpayer funds.
Bob - why did it take your shipper 4 days from entering the shipping data in the computer to getting the package to the USPS? I bet you get your package today… USPS tracking is (in my experience) not updated as quickly as those private vendors that skim the most profitable parcels out of the market. Ask FedEx to carry a letter from your door to California for 46 cents in three days.
By the way… the USPS uses FedEx to move a lot of packages (and vice-versa), so the problem could very well be FedEx.
And no… I’m not a USPS employee or lobbyist. I just think it is a great service at a remarkably low cost.
Well I will agree that there operating expenses receive no taxpayer funds, they are exempt from many other taxes, so they are in effect receiving taxpayer subsidies. As examples UPS, FedEx and all other carriers pay property taxes for their facilities. UPS, FedEx and all other carriers pay registration fees and taxes on their vehicles (notice USPS trucks do not even have a license plate).
I think that most carriers do a good job most of the time. People only complain when something goes wrong.
Also, the USPS has a monopoly on “first class mail”.
Not using Fedex or whatever on this, I have run into that many times and that IMO works better, USPS only handles the local delivery part. In any case, you see “Fedex Smartpost” in the tracking info (which is trackable with Fedex until they hand it off and then you can track it with USPS).
And yes, Bill, PM would be better but even with that transit times have gotten significantly longer in recent years. Used to be 2 days to anywhere, now, not so much. But USPS realizes this pisses people off when they have slowed down from a standard they previously set. I cited the new marketing PM 2-day, PM 3-day where they are attempting to nail it down (and charge you accordingly).
Like I said, I don’t care so much how long it takes (and the shipper chose here, I was not given a choice in this case), I have a problem when things don’t come when they are promised (except when there are extenuating circumstances).
In any case, I am a spoiled brat and I want my clock quartz conversion kit NOW! I’m done with the mechanical movements, the concours crowd can keep 'em, I don’t need the hassle that I have now realized they are. Just a couple of small items before I can put Isabel’s dash pad back and and get back to what is supposed to be the best part of the year for her, show season!
LOL. Everything sucks when you’ve got your dash apart during summer driving time…
Does the quartz conversion use a battery or tie into the 12v system?
I found a NOS clock movement on eBay (and it was cheap!) many years ago. Works perfectly. I had an original unit cleaned and refurbed for my other car - it cost more and only worked for about a year.
If this is the worst thing that happenes to you this week, you’ve had a pretty good week.
USPS, UPS and FedEx have all sucked at one time or another.
Like the time FedEx was supposed to hand delivery a bid for my company, worth about 300k.
And for some reason it didn’t get delivered and they never told me, so we missed the deadline.
Didn’t use them for a long time after that screw up.
I’ve been trying to order stuff more ahead of time so when something does go wrong it doesn’t screw up my plans.
The quartz conversion plugs in just like the original - you order the “T terminal” version and from the exterior the clock ends up looking and fitting just as the original.
I do not have a problem with keeping the clocks going, mine (refurbed by me) has been working for going on 3 years now, the problem is I can’t seem to get it calibrated (keep time) accurately and am sick of that. I think the mechanical ones simply don’t keep time that well, it’s strictly a matter of how well you can get the mainspring tension set. too much, too little. I have tried and tried and still find it either gains or loses time once installed and I am TIRED of taking the dash pad out! It’s worth it to me to have the quartz just so if I am taking the dash pad out, it won’t be for the clock! I’ll sell off a couple of the original’s refurbed with new lenses and go with quartz on Isabel - and it will keep time.
Putting gauge lenses in too before the dash pad goes back in, the ones with the new plexi. Mine are nice and all (polished up with Novus), but look nothing like the clarity of the plexi ones.
I don’t know for certain that the clock used in '69 is the same as the one used in '68, but If it is, then you have been doing it wrong. The clock has a self regulating feature. When you manually turn the hands forward it makes a slight adjustment to speed the clock up. turn them back wards and it slightly slows them down. It will never be super accurate as it is a mechanical device that is being wound by the action of a servo. I also hope you have better luck with the conversion kits than I did. I have had two of them fail. This may be a function of our extreme hot weather so your results may be different. I have developed a technique to rejuvenate the old movements that seems to work if you ever need to go backwards to the old school way.
I think you mentioned the self adjustment thing before, I could be wrong but I do not think the 69/70 clocks have this. They do have an adjustment lever on the mainspring though, do the '68’s have that as well?
