Oct
14
2009

Casulty Assessment

The Curse Of The Peacemakers Poster Contunies....

(Add / View Comments) (0)Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 12:16:46 am
(Posted Under: Operation Desert Rock)
The initial full, but somewhat brief assessment of the stuff that arrived has been quite good. I don't want to speak too soon, but casualties have mostly been small. The only surprising one is the CD case that I shipped, which looks a little worse for wear. Probably nothing unfixable, but surprising that it's a hard case and actually got beaten up.

The major casualty has been the Peacemakers poster. Yes, it continues to plaque us. (See When Good Ideas Go Bad) It's fast on it's way to being titled the bane of my existence. We ended up getting it in the shipment at the last minute (actually picked up after we'd left for America). The fact that it remained with the rest of our shipment seemed like a major coop today.

All seemed well until we opened the packaging for inspection. Before long theere was an unpleasant sound of broken glass. And a fairly impressive sight of double paned glass shards everywhere. We'd pretty much finished checking the boxes by 6, and after my guitars (which all made it completely fine), this was the final thing to check. Which ended up taking a ridiculous amount of time to deal with. Before long, the disappointment with it's damage - which wasn't too drastically high given the feat of getting it halfway across the world - was quickly overshadowed by the pure pain in the ass of dealing with the aftermath.

Somewhat surprisingly we got the poster and frame separated from the myriad of glass shards (the volume of which should not be under estimated!) without too much detriment to the frame, nor the poster. Actually, given the mess we were dealing with, any minor damage to either was probably caused before we even opened her up. None of this was a quick process, and I don't think we were done until 9 or later!

The thing was always so goddamn heavy, and it's obvious now that all of that weight was due to the two sheets of non reflective glass - because it's light as a feather now! Of course, it's pretty obvious that the $200 odd price tag for the frame was for the glass, which is now gone. But, if this is the worse that's happened, then that's okay. Given that we would have rolled to poster up and left the frame behind if we could have, and the whole getting it to America in the first place was such a scurried affair.

On inspection, it was rather poorly packed, especially compared to the rest of our shipment which seems to have been packed ridiculously well, and for the most part the condition of shows. It's possible that it was someone different who picked that up - because it does seem like the guy that picked up the rest of our stuff was awesome. (Not that I want to speak too soon!)

Speaking of which, I seriously wouldn't have packed a lot of what was packed the way he did, and I've discovered that's why I'm not a professional packer. Looking at the job, and how well everything else has seemed to arrived, it seems that tight packing is the way to go! I'm really impressed by both the condition of things due to the packing, and the use of space. There's no way I could have done such a good job, and I was pretty familiar with the content to be packed. For someone to cold pack stuff so well, and in the amount of time he did, I'm quite impressed. There has only been one box where the packing of stuff left something to be desired.

The impressive thing to me is the OSS boxes. I still clearly remember the truck rolling up four months ago, seeing the flattened boxes and...really not being that sure about them! Being half way across the world, at their destination four months later, where they've been moved from at least 2 warehouses, spent at least 3 months on a boat and then traveled from New York to here in a truck, I'm really impressed, and somewhat shocked at the virtually immaculate condition that they've turned up in. These suckers are certainly going to remain packing/moving boxes with us for as long as they can be!

In any case, today has certainly turned out to be a long one! Peace out.

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