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I have just sent a fellow member a guitar through parcelforce , this is all very worrying.
@Philly_Q No time for that on this one i'm afraid
**As a side note (as it's so often overlooked) for anyone sending a guitar with ANY courier, or if you're flying with a guitar and checking it in or if you are in a situation when someone else will be handling your guitar who doesn’t really care what it is in the case....ALWAYS slacken off your strings**
(formerly miserneil)
Oh well, you can't blame me for trying.
Interesting point about slackening the strings, there seems to be so much debate about whether that's necessary or not, but I've never seen how it could do any harm. Better safe than sorry.
Great repair.....perfection!
Parcelforce = Parcelfarce
UPS = Unsurprisingly Poor Service
DHL = Drop it, hide it, lose it.
etc. The worth of a courier company is how they deal with shit when it does go wrong. Which again, makes them all vary degrees of mediocre!
The repair looks absolutely superb, hope PF pay out
DPD = damaged parcel delivery
Only in recent years did I start using other couriers. Never had any problems, with them, either.. Lucky, I guess..
All courier companies fuck things up occasionally and they're the ones we remember, so we go round saying "never use Parcelforce, never use UPS, never use DPD", whereas other people will recommend those companies heartily because they've never had anything go wrong. It's all based on a limited number of personal experiences but we try to turn it into something global.
I'm not excusing them for the fuckups - like this PRS - and trying to get restitution when they do damage or lose something is a pain in the arse, but 99% of deliveries go without a hitch. If there really was a courier company which never messed anything up, all the others would go out of business.
Would depend on price. If they charged twice as much, then people would use cheaper ones for less valuable items. Big business sellers might still decide that losing one parcel in 50 still works out cheaper than paying for a better courier.