Never flush a tampoon!

I would say cherry as well. The picture behind the game a little darker ( not as much light) compliments it better. In the case , more light and as you mentioned looks a bit more faded. Still a nice example!
Cherry for the win.

When I saw his package, it made me immediately think of Ace Ventura.

Yep, that happens quite a bit. Makes you appreciate the USPS in times like this. And UPS has the *best* door-to-hub-to-truck-to-door tracking system of any of the big carriers.

Everything in my life somehow ends up being a movie reference. Guess that's what happens from working in the video industry for over 10
Even though that was over 20 years ago!

OMG, you mean that UPS SUCKS at what they do?? Why I can't believe it!! (sarcasm off/rant on). I will never deal with UPS again after they lost a Champion Pub playfield that I shipped to the buyer in a WOODEN crate. It took me 4 1/2 months to get them to admit they LOST it and to pay the insurance claim on it. Tons of phone calls, emails, faxes, and they finally realized I was not going away. Meanwhile the buyer is pissed at me the entire time thinking that I'm the one sitting on this and that I ripped him off. I vowed to him that I would not give up on this claim and I never did, it was UPS holding it all up. Once there check came through and I cashed it and sent the buyer his money back I never heard another word from the buyer, not even a thank you for sticking to my guns and getting his money back which cost me money every time I had to fax something to UPS, which was another story in itself. Ok, rant off.

John

Yeah it’s decent for some cool vibrato and actually stays in tune. You aren’t exactly gonna be doing dive bombs with it but it’s a neat little effect. Mostly it just looks cool. The tailpiece is awesome.

I ordered this 2 days ago... from London. I live in Mayland USA.

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But my extensions arcade controls shall live again!

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Man, I remember when DHL practically shit down, didn't they file for bankruptcy protection some years back?

Ha!
Just watched that last night. I'm sorry, but Connery is the ONLY real Bond.

I believe what you're thinking of was in 2008, when they decided not serve the US domestically because of the recession.

Im a BIG 007 fan, but i truly feel all the Bonds have something to offer. My least favorite is Timothy Dalton, however. Daniel Craig and Sean Connery are both excellent...but it would be hard to choose a best since the films, eras, directors, and scripts are SOOOO different.

I had an oil painting commissioned of Connery in Goldfinger. As soon as I put it up in my gameroom, I will have to share it in the gameroom pics thread.

If I said a clever play on words you would buy that right?
I despise the 'learning' feature of this phone.
No matter how many times I dump the learned dictionary and turn that feature off, it still comes back.
I'm leaving my spell check error alone. Galaxy S8 be damned!

Oooh! Let's rank the bonds!

1. Sean Connery (1961-1967) - awesome in every way. Will never be equaled let alone surpassed. I don't really need to explain why, just go watch Goldfinger or From Russia With Love.

2. Roger Moore - yeah I know, he was an old duffer even when he first played the role, he looks ridiculous attempting any kind of stuntwork, and he never met a bad bluescreen or stunt double he didn't like. But he was really good at the humor and charm (and could summon up a meanstreak when he had to) up till the movies got ridiculous and he really got old (we'll say that starts with Moonraker), and as my "childhood Bond" I'll always have a soft spot for him. Spy Who Loved Me is probably the 3rd best Bond movie ever. Still the longest-serving Bond, the public obviously loved him.

3. Dalton - criminally underrated and it's a real shame he didn't do more of them. License to Kill is one of the better Bond movies. He was the perfect successor to the aging, bloated, jokey Moore of the 1980s. He was serious, dark, and athletic, close to the "Bond from the books" - you know, all of the stuff everybody says they love so much about Craig now. Where were you ungrateful bastards when License to Kill wasn't selling movie tickets?! Would have loved to have seen him in Goldeneye.

4. Brosnan - perfectly serviceable but always seemed like he was just doing TV-version imitation of Connery to me, which really is exactly what he'd been doing since the Remmington Steele days. He certainly had the look and the athleticism down. Goldeneye was a very good movie and brought the series back bigtime. The rest of his movies were steadily diminishing returns.

5. Craig - he's perfectly serviceable but a bit overrated, and really brings nothing unique to the role besides his hair color and his unrelenting dourness. He gets a lot of credit for doing what Dalton already did 20 years earlier (bringing a "realistic/hard" edge to the character). He lacks the panache and charm that Bond should have. He's worn out his welcome quickly and I only liked Skyfall and Casino Royale the movies he's done. Solace and Spectre were pretty bad. Bond movies haven't actually been any fun since Brosnan. I guess his next (and supposedly final) movie will determine his final standing. If it's any good that'll probably bump him ahead of Brosnan for me.

6. Lazenby - just awful. Couldn't act and has a stupid and insufferable dimple on his chin. Not a big fan of his one movie either though there are tons of Bond fans who just SWEAR it's the best one ever. I will say that Secret Service is the only Bond Flemming book I ever read and the movie is pretty close to it, I gather that's hardly ever the case.

7. Connery (1971-1983) - My god was he bad in these two comeback movies. Old, fat, terrible toupee, and pretty miserable, like he was being forced to do these flicks at gunpoint. I can't believe how badly he aged between You Only Live Twice and Diamonds are forever. How is it that Roger Moore - who was actually older - managed to be a more believable Bond during this time period? No Bond has aged worse or had less conviction making these movies.

Actually, I feel Dalton played Bond similar to the book character more so even then Sean. The only decent Craig movie was the very first one and I don’t think that was a coincidence given the source material. Hard to like the recent Bond movies. Hate where they are taking the character. Almost feels like a reboot of sorts.

James Bond:
Do you expect me to talk?

Auric Goldfinger:
No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die.

I would agree with a lot of your points, but my rankings would be a little different.

1. Connery/Craig
2. Brosnan
3. Moore
4. Lazenby
5. Dalton

P.S. It kills me to put Moore that low, but i really feel like the movie scripts, at times, really did him and Brosnan a disservice.

On the lighter side, I once ordered some fire pit glass (basically broken glass) online. When I driver showed up at my door, I took the package from him and shook it, and said, "It sounds like broken glass" He got a grimace on his face. Then i said "That because it is"

Here’s a head scratcher from USPS. Item scanned in as received in Columbus Ohio, coming to Ga., on April 21. Today is the 29th and No status change whatsoever.
Tracking History
April 21, 2020, 4:39 pm
Shipment Received, Package Acceptance Pending
COLUMBUS, OH 43220
Your shipment was received at 4:39 pm on April 21, 2020 in COLUMBUS, OH 43220. The acceptance of your package is pending.
April 21, 2020, 9:41 am
Shipping Label Created, USPS Awaiting Item
COLUMBUS, OH 43220

I dropped off 6 packages at USPS on Monday....5 tracking and one showing "Shipping Label Created, USPS Awaiting Item"

I waited in line to check it out yesterday. No explanation given. Said to just wait.

Yup. The standard "customer service" m.o.. Keep apologizing and blowing smoke up the customer's ass.

First world problems.
The shit I ordered Durning a global crisis. And probably don't actually need in the grand scheme of things. Hasn't shown up yet.

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"We run the Tightest Ship in the Shipping Business"

DHL stands for day and a half late.

Charles Durning? I though he was a deceased actor. Maybe that’s why the deliveries are so slow, waiting for Charles to give the ok, to ship...

Funny, I actually thought this thread might be one dedicated to being grateful for UPS.

I work at a major parcel sorting facility for USPS, and we are bogged down with mail from other offices shutdown. That info isn't out there for people to dissect or interpret, but I assure you, this is a hectic time for people in this industry, as well as many others.

I'm more amazed that parcels can move so freely and quickly as they do. We process a few hundred thousand each day. And then these poor bastards on the street lug them out each day, a hundred or two, each and very day.

So while I get your frustration, as a big consumer myself, it's definitely not a normal time for this industry, so a bit of patience and appreciation would definitely be valued by your driver once your parcel does arrive.

Edit: Though I will say, I wasn't too gleeful about UPS when my driver delivered an open package from Gamestop. Rather than have two games in it, it had air. Their custome service told me to contact the shipper. Umm, thanks? I do wish the driver noticed, and maybe took it back and filed a claim before delivering, but then again...this dude probably delivered several hundred parcels that day. A cakewalk, it is not.

Really it's just like everything else about this crisis.

Americans are incredibly spoiled. In the scheme of things most of have made very small sacrifices so far.

The worst is when UPS decides to use the Post Office for "final delivery".

I had UPS claiming that they had "delivered" the package to the Post Office who was supposed to complete the delivery. The Post Office, of course, would say "That's a UPS tracking number, we don't know anything about that."

Basically UPS and the Post Office point fingers at each other, and I'm left without my package. Fortunately, the item was only worth about 10 dollars. Never did get it though.

I cannot explain how much I hate that "SmartPost" crap!

Spoiled...What are you a Commi?!? I have a guy at work that still complains to this fucking day aboot liquid carry-on sizes after 9/11.

Why use them? Why not just use FedEx instead if UPS is giving you bad service?

My son must work with you. Lee Miller

UPS

In my case this is not a new problem since the covid bs started. Been seeing packages damaged/lost from both ups and fed-ex over the last 20 years. They all introduced package tracking to help delay the bitching from us the consumer. Of the big 3 shippers Ups,Fed-ex and USPS in my case they all have screwed up more then once but by far ups seems to have masted the art of package losing and destruction. I even have had packages left on front porch with an address in North Carolina by ups more then once. Missouri is not even a neighboring state so i have to wonder how this happens name on package, street address and house number don't even match in any way but they got here. I drove down to ups store front left boxes on counter and said i think you system is broke and walked out.

Now in last year my USPS mail ends up in a mail box 4 doors down from me or 3 doors up just varies as neighbors we just walk down and put the mail in the right place. Have even seen mail bundle for whole circle street left at one house. Got a bunch of retires that live on street so they take turns calling and bitching. last week my outgoing mail was left in rain on lawn 6 doors down. Mail comes anytime of day and it varies. they are on cable company service time. Fed-ex has run a fork lift or two through boxes or over them but didn't seem worried when delivered to me about contents mind you they weighed just 15 pounds and not on a pallet. Guess the this side up sticker and fragile stickers or just hearsay. They also have a funny map some how between California and Missouri Canada is the next logical stop. I just love the absolutely perfect boxes not a scuff on them but some how contents hit shredder 1st. Used to just piss me off to no end at day job.

I ship a lot and I ship always by USPS. Due to the fact that my ramps are pretty light, I can ship Priority for generally pennies more than First class. The benefit I get is that it is in the USPS hands for fewer days because most of it (going east out of Seattle) goes by air.

USPS transit (door to door) from Seattle to say New Jersey is just 2 days. In my other life I worked in transportation. Here's how a box, shipped UPS ground gets from Seattle to New Jersey. Picked up and trucked to the Seattle sort facility and then stuffed into containers. Trucked to the BNSF Intermodal yard in South Seattle...Loaded on a container train. Transit to Chicago 2 plus days. Off loaded at the BNSF yard in Willow Springs. Adjacent to the BNSF facility, UPS has a 1000 door sort facility. Containers are unloaded, taken to the sort facility, unloaded, resorted and then stuffed again into a container and shipped via CSX to I believe Croxton, NJ. Container unloaded from train and trucked to sort facility, unloaded and sorted for deliver. All that takes about 5-6 days at best and a lot of handling....In my opinion it is all that extra handling that results in UPS boxes appearing to have been routed through hell.

I have been shipping ramps for almost 6 years and, yes, the USPS very occasionally has a hiccup, but they have never lost anything I have shipped including probably 10% of my shipments being International...which I always try to ship First class. Frankly, for small packages I don't know why anyone would ship other than USPS.

This aged pretty poorly.

I guess I have to say it... but I can’t be the only one who clicked this thread hoping to see some gnarly packages that got destroyed!

The 2 years I spent working in wholesale as the contractor sales/purchasing/receiving/IT-specialist/inventory controller/magic hat man, I had the pleasure of befriending all the incoming delivery drivers.
My personal experiences were:

• UPS true strength is their ability to straight up lose shit. They’d make me sign for “6 out of 6” delivered and I’d ask the guy, “how many times do you count each one to get to 6?” When there’s only 4 at his feet. It was crazy how many times they’d deliver half of our shipments. 24 items total and maybe 8 would walk in the door. And then as a kick in the balls they adjusted us to “auto signatures” so we somehow would just accept everything even when he forgot them!!! And MANY times I’d have to call and that asshole would tell me “oh yeah I forgot a few on the truck, I’ll have a guy bring them back tomorrow” ...they were gone. Forget about ever getting those. I’d have to accompany him to his truck otherwise he’d just not unload half of it.
Basically UPS drivers always let me down. Trash

• FedEx never lost a package but they were always in a MASSIVE hurry. I’d hardly ever see this guy. He’d throw packages and book it outta there as fast as possible. Sometimes they’d be really beat up. FedEx is great at crushing boxes, yet surprisingly even with the mangled packages, nothing has even been broken or damaged! Some sort of magic or dumb luck I guess. So the only bummer for FedEx is the guys are under an insane time crunch and don’t care about your package but at least it always shows up!

•USPS personally my favorite. Sure, it shows up whenever they feel like it, and sometimes it’s in mail purgatory for a few weeks, but 60% of the time it gets here early, I mean several DAYS ahead of schedule. It’s cheap as hell, too. Tracking almost never works. Totally useless. If I just want it to get there as fast as possible, I’ll go USPS every time.

So yeah,
FedEx destroys boxes, UPS accidentally sends packages into the twilight zone, and USPS never has a clue where anything is, ever, but it magically shows up... eventually.

Pick your poison.

I’m by no means a fan of UPS—I’ve had many, many run ins with them over the years. But to clarify some of the current challenges with shipping, the biggest problem I know of is the extreme drop in consumer air travel. Quite a bit of freight travels on these flights, and I know the shipping windows at work have doubled in the past month. They can’t rely on the normal air routes bc so many flights are being canceled or rescheduled. Instead we have to book cargo flights—more $$ and longer lead times.

Package sent PRIORITY SHIPPING 10 days ago, dropped off directly at the post office using their own priority packaging with the destination only 360 miles away. I know because I drove there and back Saturday.

UPS in comparison has been great around here, so clearly there is issues with some hub locations regardless of shipping company.

April 29, 2020
In Transit to Next Facility
Your package is moving within the USPS network and is on track to be delivered to its final destination. It is currently in transit to the next facility.

April 27, 2020, 1:49 pm
Arrived at USPS Regional Origin Facility
SPRINGFIELD MA NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER

April 20, 2020, 3:13 pm
USPS in possession of item
EAST LYME, CT 06333

Fed-Ex not covering themselves in glory either. A friend of mine runs a business selling Dodge Challenger parts, here is the tracking history for a package shipped to Canada that was promised to be there last Saturday by Fed-Ex. No shipping company is covering themselves with glory at the moment. Considering how many people are home and no doubt ordering stuff online I'm surprised it isn't worse.

Thursday , 4/30/2020
1:44 am
DELTA, BC
On FedEx vehicle for delivery

12:47 am
DELTA, BC
At local FedEx facility

Tuesday , 4/28/2020
2:13 pm
DELTA, BC

International shipment release
2:13 pm
DELTA, BC

Arrived at FedEx location
6:44 am
TROUTDALE, OR

Departed FedEx location

Monday , 4/27/2020
1:11 pm
TROUTDALE, OR
Arrived at FedEx location

12:20 pm
TROUTDALE, OR
In transit

Sunday , 4/26/2020
10:17 pm
TROUTDALE, OR

In transit
10:17 am
TROUTDALE, OR
In transit

Saturday , 4/25/2020
10:16 pm
TROUTDALE, OR
In transit
6:12 am
TROUTDALE, OR
In transit

Friday , 4/24/2020
9:57 am
SAINT REGIS, MT
In transit

Thursday , 4/23/2020
9:48 pm
GILLETTE, WY
In transit

10:41 am
BLUE EARTH, MN
In transit

Wednesday , 4/22/2020
11:34 pm
SWANTON, OH
In transit

11:24 am
MIDDLETOWN, CT
Departed FedEx location

1:41 am
MIDDLETOWN, CT
Arrived at FedEx location

Tuesday , 4/21/2020
9:20 pm
JOHNSTON, RI

Left FedEx origin facility
7:52 pm
JOHNSTON, RI

Arrived at FedEx location
5:01 pm
JOHNSTON, RI
Picked up

Monday , 4/20/2020
4:53 pm
Shipment information sent to FedEx

4:45 pm
NORWICH, CT
In FedEx possession
Tendered at FedEx location

I alwys get a little kick out of seeing this - somewhere their servers' times aren't aligned.
FedEx GOT the package 8 minutes before they even knew what to do with it. Huh?

During a global catastrophe, it may take a bit longer for your Girls Gone Wild DVDs to arrive. Please be patient.