Lee and everyone following this thread. As promised the neighbor called about an hour ago. I picked up the box amazing there wasn’t any damage to it. I unboxed the SX900 and all is working as expected I’ve been testing various functions since firing it up, everything seems to work. In the morning I’ll continue use check things out.

Lee so you’ve seen this horse and buggy routine too, these drivers just don’t use care all they know is they have to deliver X number of parcels every day.

PS. Lee I called 1-888-742-5877, it’s the UPS main number.

Steve, I may have posted here about my laptop delivery from UPS (which I now think stands for "you poor sucker) ...
Doorbell rings, go to answer, box is there truck is gone - in about 10 seconds ... one corner of the box is split open, one top flap is 'flappin in the wind', with some of the protective bubble stuff coming out of the box ... fortunately, no damage to the inside laptop box ... but I call UPS (thinking about that 'you poor sucker' thing aren't you ) and after working my way through about 5 people, a guy tells me "if nothing is broken, there's nothing to report" ... then tells me "we could have gotten the box that way" !!! He had no answer when I asked why UPS would take a damaged box to deliver ...
Glad all is well with the board ...

Yikes Steve! Sorry to hear that UPS nightmare! I know we all face fears every time we entrust our expensive gear to the guys in the brown trucks! My neighborhood in Florida uses the same practice during the holidays - they hire locals who run the packages through the neighborhood. It's a shame that your driver was not very attentive to his cargo! Glad to hear the board is working properly, and enjoy the fun!

Tony,

I had forgotten about your laptop delivery, but now that you reminded me I do remember. So far all is well with the board and I’m hoping there won’t be a problem in the future.

Randy,

Late yesterday afternoon was stressful but “all is well that ends well. “. So you too have seen the same things happening in your neighborhood seems very common during the holiday season.

It is indeed hard to picture a brand new keyboard like SX900 or any other valuable thing falling of on the ground while being delivered or left outside the house with no supervision.

Most people in Russia tend to live in big cities for economical reasons. A lot of them have some houses in suburbs but mostly for a purpose to work in a garden on weekends or retirement. So far communities aren't well developed here, that's why this atmosphere of trust is a bit exotic to me.

But as I get it from the stories you share, this idyll is not spotless. It's like if there's a certain revenge from delivery guys, as if they don't want to be a part of that idyll.

As you can see from the picture, my life in a city should be rather different. But if I want something delivered, it will be either personally handed to me at my home, of picked up by me in a nearest office (about 5 minutes from home).

Hi Steve,
what a scary story.

Hope everything thing is ok. Since you packed it yourself for shipping, no doubt you would have take great care.


Not something one would expect, but obviously goes on.

CRAP! Now we're having a problem with USPS getting the Genos to Al. It shipped the 19th with ETA the 26th. Dallas is 150 miles and it supposedly only left there the 26th on the way to Florida.
Hoping it is only Christmas rush that held it up.

They are so backed up with xmas rush and weather delays...
hopefully it will get there soon and or a day or 2 late unharmed..

Been shipping 10 plus packages a day for over 20 years UPS. Never a lost or late package. Sometimes, with a big promotion, there are three or more trucks in line at the front door.

Of course, most of our shipments are paper, so damage would be minimized.

Fed Ex screws up about every other order for musical stuff.
Hate to deal with them.

The post office delivers to the wrong address on a regular basis.

GO FIGURE!

R.

Hi ,
shipping is weird.
I used TNT, here in Aust. when I sold my 3 keyboards a while back. The first 2 arrived within a week, able to follow tracking, the 3rd one took nearly 3 weeks ,I was starting to panic, especially after I realised it was going to an area where they were having problems with bushfires. They were obviously holding onto it till it was safe to deliver.

Couldn’t believe it though, I bought my own Christmas present ( I don’t trust hubby to pick mine haha, after he bought me a set of scales one year) I ordered it from the Ukraine on the 12th December, expecting it would arrive some time mid January , if I was lucky, instead it arrived on Xmas eve

Our internal Aust. Post packages can take as long as that ,this time of year, let alone something from Europe.