I hate the mail

[JimBRICK]

send Doro his MO for my receiver and I just checked the registered letter status and its still not there. 12 bucks to send the damn letter registered and its been 5 days already. GRRRRRRR. I coulda driven to his house faster and picked the darn thing up

[dkg999]

Obviously that's a Canada Post problem ;) It couldn't possibly be the fault of our highly efficient United States Postal Service :o

[JimBRICK]

LOL actually its been in the states since monday, hopefully it'll be at his house tommorow

[janmike]

Put it this way. I much prefer the Postal Services in both countries to some of those over priced useless courier services.
Xpresspost - USA 3 to 5 days. Registered letter is not the fastest method.
Purolator is the fastest.

[JimBRICK]

yeah stuid me I shoulda sent it priority courier, I'm anxious to hear the difference of this receiver. I'm talking to someone about a nad 925THX, I'm checking right now to see what its worth

[Bill Ayotte]

The Nad integrated I bought from Doro got here two days ago.....It f'in rocks...That 50w/ch owned the 120w/ch amp I was running.....God those B&W's are singing something fierce.

[dorokusai]

Now would a guy named dorokusai...who's actually a caucasian Yankee redneck ever steer you wrong? :D

[dkg999]

Now how could anything under 200 wpc possibly be any good ;)

[JimBRICK]

I'm still gonna wait for Doro to find me a nice T955 to make my nad a pair :) But with this new house we bought, I'm putting the home theater on the back burner for a bit and wait till she gives me the ok to really spend some money.
but I get to have a 2 channel rig now so WOOOHOOO

[TN_Polk_Lover]

If I buy anything off of ebay, I always get a money order from the post office to pay for the item. (I used to have a paypal account many years ago, but haven't used it in so long I'm not sure that it is even active anymore)

Anyway, I usually mail the money order by plain old lickem and stickem 1st class stamp. Well, a few times lately, I paid extra, seems like $4.05 plus another $.75 just so I could have delivery confimation. You are supposed to be able to go to usps.com and put in the tracking number to get the status.

Well, so far in both cases, the person I sent the letter to would reply back to me via ebay messages that they got the payment and would mark the item as paid and when I go to the website, it never shows up. It just shows where they received the item on my end at the main Nashville post office. On top of that, the item did not get any faster by sending it "priority".

I don't think I'll be paying the extra $$ anymore, at least not with the USPS.

[JimBRICK]

ok its officially been 7 days now and boy have I learned my lesson I should have sent it purolator courier I called and it would have been 7 bucks and got there 3 days later

[janmike]

Hey, the school of hard knocks never hurts, only the first time. All will work out. Patience my friend. My wife's motto is "All good things come to those who wait." I struggle with that concept everyday, but she is usually right. It's the Toronto thing in me.

[dorokusai]

Yep, still not here. The wife just remarked about how "convenient" that big box is next to the door.

[JimBRICK]

WTF I sent it LAST friday this is CRAZY were going on 12 days now. I could have sent it in a regular envelope and it would be there

[Sherardp]

Dont feel bad, I paid to ship an update CD and japanese audio/video magazine to Grimster and it seemed like it took over 10 days to get to him. Mind you it was express mail. So much for express huh...........

[danger boy]

i only use first class and priority mail.. both seem pretty fast and usually arrive on time or a day early. :)

[JimBRICK]

I sent it registered and it cost me over 12 buxks this is rediculous. I'm getting a damn paypal

[dorokusai]

Sure you did :D ;)

[janmike]

Do you have a tracking number? Maybe it's time for a search.

[JimBRICK]

yeah it says last mon that it made in to the US, but hey we've all heard about the US postal service LOL


I getting pissed its like someone put christmas on hold for me for 2 weeks. The funny thing is when I bought it I was going to run my rti's but now they're gone and my LSI15's and lsic are in the mail. so now I need a power amp. The nad will be my preamp.

[dorokusai]

Jim - The NAD T743 is fully capable of that Polk LSi loudspeaker load, out of the box. You should play with the AVR for awhile then add the external amplification. I'm sure you'll notice a difference, but depending on the amp, would be interested in your comments in regards to the particulars.

What's the amp?

[JimBRICK]

I havent found an amp yet but I was looking for a NAD to match. But I'm in no hurry the speakers are coming but since I ordered them through work it take 3 weeks. I'm going to take your advice and try the nad stright up first. If it sounds great then I wont be buying a power amp afterall. If not a simple 5 channel like this
http://207.228.230.231/info/NAD_S250.pdf

[tonyb]

I dunno Jim,I might look for something with more balls to it...so to speak.

[danger boy]

look for something with more NAD's. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! JK

[MSALLA]

look for something with more NAD's. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! JK

:D Never a lack of quick whit here at club polk:D

[Bill Ayotte]

After having that ingegrated, I am looking for a Nad amp for the 2 ch. HT rig I've got going.....

[JimBRICK]

ok now tommorow will be 2 weeks WTF, I'm not impressed

[MikeC78]

Track it! All certified mail comes with a tracking number on it.

[JimBRICK]

this is all it says on the tracking

2007/04/04 14:14 International shipment has arrived in the destination country

[Bill Ayotte]

Yeah, that about sucks....My tuner said it was in Philly until the morning it was delivered.......So who knows man.