<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'> <div></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"><blockquote style="padding-left: 3px; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;">Better yet: do this PLUS mail from the "Mother Ship" instead of UPS Store.) <br> </blockquote></div> <div></div> <div>I sent the strings at the UPS Mother ship, at the Honolulu airport </div> <div style="clear: both;"> <div> </div> <div>Wim</div> </div> <div></div> <div></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Euphonious Thumpe <lclgcnp@yahoo.com><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Wed, Oct 24, 2012 4:56 pm<br> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Hot strings. Was Who pays<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_1_115c5f1b-3c90-411b-81d2-6e44f2c8c277"> <table border="0" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;" vAlign="top"> <div>I sent a single string to Schaff for duplication via UPS Store a couple of years ago, and it was sent to a residence in downtown Chicago, instead. (And lost.) Big pain, Had to drive to customer's and take a bunch of measurements. (Way out in the country.) UPS Store refused to even let me file a claim, although its computer altered the address!!! Saying. "It was sent to where it was addressed to." Regional Mother Company manager then told me to sue, and said; "We hate those guys!" (Or something equivalent.)<br> Moral: UPS Stores are not really part of UPS, and are often run by disgruntled, ex- "Mailboxes Plus" staff. Here, they'll try to sell you all sorts of packing materials at exorbitant cost. (Charged one of my customers $140 to mail a set of white keys to Pianotek for recovering!) And their computerized label-makers will put what they "THINK" is he address you mean to ship to (from some sort of database) rather than what you actually wrote on the form! (So check the computer printed label for accuracy, prior to shipping! Better yet: do this PLUS mail from the "Mother Ship" instead of UPS Store.) <br> <br> Thujmpe</div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div id="_origMsg_"> <div> <br> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <font size="2" face="Tahoma"> <hr SIZE="1"> <b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span> </b> John Ross <<a href="mailto:jrpiano@bellaliant.net">jrpiano@bellaliant.net</a>>; <br> <b> <span>To:</span> </b> <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>>; <br> <b> <span>Subject:</span> </b> Re: [pianotech] Hot strings. Was Who pays <br> <b> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span> </b> Wed, Oct 24, 2012 9:47:18 PM <br> </font> <br> <table border="0" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;" vAlign="top">Good job you have a good reputation.  <div>Lesser people might think you sent an empty box. LOL</div> <div>John Ross<br> <div> <div>On 24-10-2012, at 5:52 PM, <a rel="nofollow">tnrwim@aol.com</a> wrote:</div> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I sent the wrong strings for the 1098 back to Mapes and also the original strings. I had taped the two boxes together, but because the boxes were not exactly the same size, UPS made me send the two boxes separately. <br> <br> This morning I got a call from Mapes that both boxes arrived, but the box with the new strings was empty. The box had been tapes shut, but no strings. <br> <br> I am presuming someone at UPS knew the contents of the box and helped themselves to a set of new bass strings. So if any of you are offered a set if new bass strings, don't buy them, because they are "hot" <br> <br> A more probable reason they were stolen, however, is for the copper.<br> <br> Wim<br> <br> <br> Sent from my iPhone</blockquote></div> <br> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> </font>