Tsani
Well-known member
Jane Austen said that anticipation is “..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself”. If so, I ought be absolutely delirious with joy. I bought an Excelsius (Antonio Pinto Carvalho - APC) soprano ukulele on June 18th. It is one month to the day later and the ukulele (a gift for my son) is still in transit.
To be fair -
1. It is coming from Portugal.
2. It came safely from over the seas and now is in the "gentle" (ahem! ) hands of the United States Postal Service.
3. We are still within the window of the delivery time predicted by ebay, which runs all the way to July 26th.
I am following the USPS tracking tool (and before that the CTT tracking tool) the way a desperate gambler follows horse race results. I check the site first thing every morning and multiple times during the day. It's pretty pathetic actually.
The uke sat in a New York sorting facility for a solid week. I will not ask why - because I know that some aggrieved postal worker will tell me that I have no idea of the complexities involved in moving an international package through the myriad of regulations and processes necessary for delivery in the U.S.
All I can say is that when that thing shows up on my doorstep it will be received with the excitement generally reserved for a date with a super-model.
Nothing to do but continue to wait...
To be fair -
1. It is coming from Portugal.
2. It came safely from over the seas and now is in the "gentle" (ahem! ) hands of the United States Postal Service.
3. We are still within the window of the delivery time predicted by ebay, which runs all the way to July 26th.
I am following the USPS tracking tool (and before that the CTT tracking tool) the way a desperate gambler follows horse race results. I check the site first thing every morning and multiple times during the day. It's pretty pathetic actually.
The uke sat in a New York sorting facility for a solid week. I will not ask why - because I know that some aggrieved postal worker will tell me that I have no idea of the complexities involved in moving an international package through the myriad of regulations and processes necessary for delivery in the U.S.
All I can say is that when that thing shows up on my doorstep it will be received with the excitement generally reserved for a date with a super-model.
Nothing to do but continue to wait...