3 days via CP? What's are Readers x3?
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KBC sent me a "We Miss You" email today.....
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3 days via CP? What's are Readers x3?
Okay, probably helps I’m just across the water by 30 miles
Are you 30 miles plus a $100 ferry ride away?
Jeez, you guys musta used the Slow Boat Express — I ordered Monday afternoon and it was waiting on my porch Wednesday afternoon….
Okay, probably helps I’m just across the water by 30 miles
Oh, it’s probably a day to get to Calgary, then they hook up a horse and wagon and start the long 2 day journey to my post office , which opens at 11am but then close at noon for lunch ....
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Jeez, you guys musta used the Slow Boat Express — I ordered Monday afternoon and it was waiting on my porch Wednesday afternoon….
Okay, probably helps I’m just across the water by 30 miles
All because you're special.
Pony express at it's finest. LOL
Got my Nicholson handy file today. Says made in Mexico?
Sent me a nice decimal conversion and tap/drill size chart/poster.
Appears to be a power hacksaw blade missing from my shipment? @kevin.decelles when KBC mails stuff to you do they sent a tracking number?
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not directly.... sometimes I get a purolator or canada post pickup notification. Depends on how it ships.
I ordered files from KBC and from Amazon..... only from KBC now. The amazon ones were labelled Nicholson, but were clearly 'curved' and not evenly cut.... brutal. The KBC ones have been great so far.
I ordered files from KBC and from Amazon..... only from KBC now. The amazon ones were labelled Nicholson, but were clearly 'curved' and not evenly cut.... brutal. The KBC ones have been great so far.
Same happened to me one on a Friday one on a Saturday no info on splitting or anything on the packing slip but got it on Sat which was a bonus was very happy.
How the shipment was split up appears to coincide with how my CC was charged, so there must still be a piece heading my way out there.
Edit: I figured this out now. My delinquent PHS blade is still somewhere in LIVONIA, MI. Won't see it until the 7th.
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I have to say I was a little disappointed when I opened the KBC box last week, and that rarely happens with me. But, I had ordered two files (trying to get in ahead of @YYCHM on the big rush on files a long-angle Nicholson lathe file and a 12” Nicholson square file) and when I opened the box I found both files just placed side by side in the same plastic bag. No paper or anything between. And sure enough, the sides where they had been in contact were kind of scuffed with a bit of a shine on the teeth.
Okay, not a huge deal, and there’s lots of people who would say a file is a file and throw them all in the same drawer anyway. But, two files rubbing together during a shipping journey (mine was not a long way by any stretch) doesn’t do them any favours.
So I was a little choked but not enough to make a fuss over it. I will order files separately the next time though. I really like KBC, and they’ve been very good to me in all the dealings I’ve had with them.
a long-angle Nicholson lathe file and a 12” Nicholson square file) and when I opened the box I found both files just placed side by side in the same plastic bag. No paper or anything between. And sure enough, the sides where they had been in contact were kind of scuffed with a bit of a shine on the teeth.Okay, not a huge deal, and there’s lots of people who would say a file is a file and throw them all in the same drawer anyway. But, two files rubbing together during a shipping journey (mine was not a long way by any stretch) doesn’t do them any favours.
So I was a little choked but not enough to make a fuss over it. I will order files separately the next time though. I really like KBC, and they’ve been very good to me in all the dealings I’ve had with them.
I've had that occasionally too. Might be worth a polite call just to give them heads up or it will likely perpetuate. Its probably someone who wasn't trained to consider things like that, or rushed it, or whatever. But we should be entitled to wear out our tools on our own terms Lol. Lately I've been having Amazon fun. A $150 SSD drive in a skinny bubble wrap envelope sitting on my porch step ready to be stepped on. A crazy large box of something miniscule & worthless with wads of packing paper that made the forest cry. You just cant win.
For me I'm convinced suppliers use unskilled individuals in their order and shipping departments with little or no training or idea of machining equipment and related items. That's how companies make their money! Four times now I've had to return part of an order for incorrect item obviously stocked in wrong bin, and damaged inserts due to packaging, then tooling that was shipped properly by the carrier but the wooden container appeared like chicken little ran over it with his tractor. On return everything was replace or refunded but it's the hassle getting there and time lost. Locally I ordered an odd ball size 1" diameter die but when it arrived it was 2" in diameter. The boss then took time from his desk to explain to the employee how to read their catalogue while I stood there watched and listened. Yes I got the correct item days later.
Bottom line that's the state of our world nowadays, they walk among us. Just saying!
@Dusty : I ordered 4 CLAMPS off Amazon and I received 3 clamps and a roofing shovel.....
Noooo kidding, why am I not surprised by that.
