UPS

[Ron Nossaman]

It's scary.

This weekend, right in the middle of cutting a couple of sets 
of ribs to length, my bandsaw went from cutting just fine, to 
hhmmmmmmmmmm, in one flick of the switch. Might be the start 
capacitor, or evil spirits. Either way, it would cost more to 
find out than the garage sale motor originally cost me, so I 
ordered a new replacement motor from Grizzly around noon on 
Monday. Today (Wednesday), I got an e-mail notification that 
it had gone out UPS on Tuesday, just a couple of hours before 
it was delivered to my door.

I think it's interesting that a low volume unknown (hands!) 
can pay a premium price for fast delivery that gets there 
whenever it eventually arrives, but a high volume business 
gets next day service at "whenever" rates.

Another day in the cheap seats, but my bandsaw is working just 
fine now, thank you, so I'm dangerous once again. Now if 
someone would clean up my shop tomorrow while I'm out 
installing music in pianos...


"Sometimes we sits and thinks, and sometimes we just sits"
----- Pogo -----




Sigh.
Ron N