when bad things happen to good bows - (warning! graphic image content!)

[Mike Mecredy]

No matter a bow gets shipped in always insure it. It dosent' matter anyway, when you pay a company to get a product to a customer, no matter what you pack it in, it's their responsibility to get it where it needs to go without damage.

[Ray Hammond]

I'm thinking forklift, tube pinned against the forward end of the trailer- forklift trying to stick his forks under a pallet - driver not able to quite get there so he pushes the gas to teh floor...that oughta do it!!

[Rob DiStefano]

Originally posted by Ray Hammond:
I'm thinking forklift, tube pinned against the forward end of the trailer- forklift trying to stick his forks under a pallet - driver not able to quite get there so he pushes the gas to teh floor...that oughta do it!!

a viable scenario.

stuff happens.

but when it does, have the ethics to admit ownership and not continue on as if nothing all that bad happened, and continue on to deliver the "goods", like good little mail persons do - "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." - yeesh!      

[Jedimaster]

Here's a thought, send the USPS a link to this thread.  Maybe they should see all the good will they have generated in our community.  After all, each one of us is a customer ... even if reluctantly.

[Easykeeper]

I hope it works out for you, that's pretty egregious damage.  Not what I want to see when I have a used bow somewhere in the Postal Service.

[trad_in_cali]

And a reminder: With USPS, if you are selling a bow (or anything else) you bought used and have no proof of value i.e. a receipt for it, insurance serves no purpose. They will sell it to you, but if the item breaks and you cannot prove its exact cost to you (no matter what you declared on the insurance form), you are out of luck. Been there...
Marco

[ChrisM]

Rob don,t tell me it was the tembo with the carmelized limbs,I may just have to observe a moment of silence for that beauty.

[JRY309]

Wow!!! That would be very disappointing to me,thats the type of pipe I ship my longbows in!That took alot of pressure to crush the tube and break that longbow.

[L. Harris]

So sorry to see this but not really suprised! I helped out at an archery shop once and witnessed the Fed-Ex guy throw boxed compond bows from the middle of his truck onto the concrete floor in the shop! He was turned in many times but they never did abything about it. Ups wasn't much better.

[Rob DiStefano]

Originally posted by trad_in_cali:
And a reminder: With USPS, if you are selling a bow (or anything else) you bought used and have no proof of value i.e. a receipt for it, insurance serves no purpose. They will sell it to you, but if the item breaks and you cannot prove its exact cost to you (no matter what you declared on the insurance form), you are out of luck. Been there...
Marco

i have the receipt from craig.   :D

[Rob DiStefano]

Originally posted by ChrisM:
Rob don,t tell me it was the tembo with the carmelized limbs,I may just have to observe a moment of silence for that beauty.

yes, the very one.  

but hey, it's just a bow and not a human or a good dog or a good horse or   :D

[Rob DiStefano]

Originally posted by JRY309:
Wow!!! That would be very disappointing to me,thats the type of pipe I ship my longbows in!That took alot of pressure to crush the tube and break that longbow.

Originally posted by L. Harris:
So sorry to see this but not really suprised! I helped out at an archery shop once and witnessed the Fed-Ex guy throw boxed compond bows from the middle of his truck onto the concrete floor in the shop! He was turned in many times but they never did abything about it. Ups wasn't much better.

that's the whole point.  

that tube would *easily* survive just getting thrown around and dropped.

this is a clear case of total usps lack of care or competence.

[glenbo]

What a bummer,At least it wasnt a Mohawk.

[Rob DiStefano]

Originally posted by glenbo:
What a bummer,At least it wasnt a Mohawk.

GIMME A AMEN BRUTHA!!!    

[Hawkeye]

Originally posted by Rob DiStefano:
 

Originally posted by ChrisM:
Rob don,t tell me it was the tembo with the carmelized limbs,I may just have to observe a moment of silence for that beauty.

yes, the very one.  

but hey, it's just a bow and not a human or a good dog or a good horse or    :D  [/b]

I was sad to see this.  I contacted Rob a few hours after the bow was posted to buy my first Hill, but a sharper mind and faster fingers had wisely snapped it up.  Sorry it happened to you!

One thing we always said on the farm through the years when we lost a valued animal, or had financial losses due to disease sweeping through was, "As long as we can keep it out of the house!"  It may be important stuff we lose sometimes... but it is still "stuff."

Hope they are fair in settling, and easy to deal with.  

Here's to your next good "find" to replace it!

Daryl

[chowder]

man that is terrible!

[Turkeys Fear Me]

If that was an ILF bow, it could have been packaged securely in a compact, conveyor friendly package...

[hitman]

It was probably a PETA member employee.

[Rob DiStefano]

took a full month, but it appears the claim has been approved ...

[2treks]

That surprises me, I have had one bow break that was sent to me and the owner had a check in his hand in less than a week. BUT, You got it(well,almost).
Chuck