After reading good things about Lee Valley, I ordered a book entitled Wood
Planes and How to Make Them from Lee Valley. The book came via FedEx
yesterday -- so quickly after I ordered, I was surprised. Thanks to the
group for previous posts.
Steve (aka John Smith because I haven't been able to change the sender
default in IE yet)
Lee Valley is a real top notch outfit. Exceptional products, SERVICE and
prices. I can't think of another compay I could compare them for what they
do,
"John Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> After reading good things about Lee Valley, I ordered a book entitled Wood
> Planes and How to Make Them from Lee Valley. The book came via FedEx
> yesterday -- so quickly after I ordered, I was surprised. Thanks to the
> group for previous posts.
>
> Steve (aka John Smith because I haven't been able to change the sender
> default in IE yet)
>
>
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 06:00:41 -0800, "John Smith" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>After reading good things about Lee Valley, I ordered a book entitled Wood
>Planes and How to Make Them from Lee Valley. The book came via FedEx
>yesterday -- so quickly after I ordered, I was surprised. Thanks to the
>group for previous posts.
>
>Steve (aka John Smith because I haven't been able to change the sender
>default in IE yet)
>
I think the longest I've ever had to wait was 7 days, sometime around
Christmas. My latest order went in at 8:30 in the morning and shipped
at 3:00 that afternoon.
They've always done right by me.
Ken
"Edwin Pawlowski" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Ed Clark wrote:
> > That is just the opposite of my order. I placed an order on the 16th
> > and it won't arrive until the 24th. I am a little disappointed.
> > That's about as slow as Amazon's free shipping.
>
> But where do you live? LV ships out of Buffalo NY and typical UPS or USPS
> is a week cross country. I'm in CT and I've been waiting for a package from
> Arizona for over a week, one from Calgary took two weeks.
>
> You have the option of paying for premium shipping to get the toys the next
> day. If you go the cheap route, the shipper has no control over how long
> the big brown truck takes to get to your house.
Very True. Lee Valley shipped my order (placed on a Sunday) the next
morning. It took the carrier, FedEx, 6 business days to get it to
Houston. For comparison, it took USPS 4 days to get an order from
another city in New York to Houston. The problem most likely isn't
with Lee Valley. If you ordered via their web site, they would have
sent you a confirmation email when it was shipped. This will have the
tracking information for the package so you can find out where your
package is.
Weldon
That is just the opposite of my order. I placed an order on the 16th and it
won't arrive until the 24th. I am a little disappointed. That's about as
slow as Amazon's free shipping.
Ed
"John Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> After reading good things about Lee Valley, I ordered a book entitled Wood
> Planes and How to Make Them from Lee Valley. The book came via FedEx
> yesterday -- so quickly after I ordered, I was surprised. Thanks to the
> group for previous posts.
>
> Steve (aka John Smith because I haven't been able to change the sender
> default in IE yet)
>
>
Hi Ed -
Sorry your order's taking a week to get there - once it's out of our hands,
it's up to the delivery service. Normally, we turn around orders in under 24
hours, most are same day. When you read a post where someone got their order
quickly - we didn't really do anything differently (we ship them all as fast
as we can).
Keep in mind too, that the time of day you order can add a day or so....
Many parcel delivery services pick up only once per day...if you order after
the pick-up, it adds a full day (sorta like dry cleaning!). Day of week
matters too - if you order on a Friday after last pick-up, the parcel
doesn't leave our warehouse until Monday afternoon (though it will most
likely get picked and packed before Monday).
Cheers,
Rob Lee
Lee Valley
"Ed Clark" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:bWdZb.21334$tM5.416@fed1read04...
> That is just the opposite of my order. I placed an order on the 16th and
it
> won't arrive until the 24th. I am a little disappointed. That's about as
> slow as Amazon's free shipping.
>
> Ed
> "John Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > After reading good things about Lee Valley, I ordered a book entitled
Wood
> > Planes and How to Make Them from Lee Valley. The book came via FedEx
> > yesterday -- so quickly after I ordered, I was surprised. Thanks to the
> > group for previous posts.
> >
> > Steve (aka John Smith because I haven't been able to change the sender
> > default in IE yet)
> >
> >
>
>
"Charlie Self" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Today, it often seems like 97% of what I get here in the way of info comes
> FedEx overnight, even when I tell someone I've got a month to deadline.
>
> It's nice to get things quickly, but is 6-7 days between order and arrival
that
> bad these days?
Except for "One Hour Martinizing" which, as I recall, was never one hour.
[ Just what was "martinizing" anyway??? ]
Cell phones, pagers, broadband.
Drive through hamburgers.
Do-it-yourself checkouts.
The world's speeding up.
mttt responds:
>> It's nice to get things quickly, but is 6-7 days between order and arrival
>that
>> bad these days?
>
>Except for "One Hour Martinizing" which, as I recall, was never one hour.
>[ Just what was "martinizing" anyway??? ]
>
>Cell phones, pagers, broadband.
>Drive through hamburgers.
>Do-it-yourself checkouts.
>
>The world's speeding up.
But where is it going?
Charlie Self
"Health food makes me sick." Calvin Trillin
http://hometown.aol.com/charliediy/myhomepage/business.html
To quote Radar O'Reilly <sp> " To heck in a handbag!"
--
"Cartoons don't have any deep meaning.
They're just stupid drawings that give you a cheap laugh."
Homer Simpson
Jerry© The Phoneman®
"Charlie Self" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> mttt responds:
>
> >> It's nice to get things quickly, but is 6-7 days between order and
arrival
> >that
> >> bad these days?
> >
> >Except for "One Hour Martinizing" which, as I recall, was never one hour.
> >[ Just what was "martinizing" anyway??? ]
> >
> >Cell phones, pagers, broadband.
> >Drive through hamburgers.
> >Do-it-yourself checkouts.
> >
> >The world's speeding up.
>
> But where is it going?
>
> Charlie Self
> "Health food makes me sick." Calvin Trillin
>
> http://hometown.aol.com/charliediy/myhomepage/business.html
Jerry Gilreath respods"
>o quote Radar O'Reilly <sp> " To heck in a handbag!"
Yeah, well...to quote whomever he is, local sputscaster on the idjit box, re:
12 car wreck at the Daytona 500: "It went all to heck."
Such a way with words. But at least that time he got 5 he could pronounce.
Charlie Self
"Health food makes me sick." Calvin Trillin
http://hometown.aol.com/charliediy/myhomepage/business.html
Rob Lee responds:
>
>Sorry your order's taking a week to get there - once it's out of our hands,
>it's up to the delivery service. Normally, we turn around orders in under 24
>hours, most are same day. When you read a post where someone got their order
>quickly - we didn't really do anything differently (we ship them all as fast
>as we can).
>
How things change. When I was a kid, my parents, both actually country people
but living near NYC, used to order Christmas presents through the Sears,
Roebuck catalog. They'd order 6 to 8 weeks before Christmas and the postal
service would drop the packages off something like 2 weeks before the big day.
Never bothered anyone at all, that I can recall, nor did ordering other things
from catalogs that took 2-3 weeks to arrive. Today, people seem ready to
complain if an item shipped surface doesn't arrive before night of the day it
was ordered.
Today, it often seems like 97% of what I get here in the way of info comes
FedEx overnight, even when I tell someone I've got a month to deadline.
It's nice to get things quickly, but is 6-7 days between order and arrival that
bad these days?
Charlie Self
"Health food makes me sick." Calvin Trillin
http://hometown.aol.com/charliediy/myhomepage/business.html
mttt wrote:
> The world's speeding up.
Now all they have to do is figure out some way we can take a crap in just 12
seconds. That will put all the paper-and-ink newspapers out of business
for sure.
--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 22:46:52 GMT, "mttt" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>Except for "One Hour Martinizing" which, as I recall, was never one hour.
>[ Just what was "martinizing" anyway??? ]
That's when "Martin" does your laundry.
Barry
Charlie Self wrote:
> It's nice to get things quickly, but is 6-7 days between order and arrival
> that bad these days?
You're not so old. I remember when I was a kid (in the '80s... OK, you
*are* old... :) it was perfectly normal for anything to take 6-8 weeks to
arrive.
As far as shipping times... It's WINTER for crying out loud. Look around!
See all that white, frozen shit all over the place? (And no, Charlie, this
isn't directed at you in particular.)
On one recent trip, I made it a whopping 18 miles in one day. I just said
to hell with it and parked at the first truckstop up the road from my
house. People got their stuff late. They got over it. I'm alive to tell
the tale.
--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/
Ed Clark wrote:
> That is just the opposite of my order. I placed an order on the 16th
> and it won't arrive until the 24th. I am a little disappointed.
> That's about as slow as Amazon's free shipping.
But where do you live? LV ships out of Buffalo NY and typical UPS or USPS
is a week cross country. I'm in CT and I've been waiting for a package from
Arizona for over a week, one from Calgary took two weeks.
You have the option of paying for premium shipping to get the toys the next
day. If you go the cheap route, the shipper has no control over how long
the big brown truck takes to get to your house.
--
Ed
[email protected]
http://pages.cthome.net/edhome