Dave Sikorski

Dave Parks

Dave Parks

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Your GWT is on her way. USPS tracking # ED 731435868 US.

My little backwoods P.O. does not do overnight, so it was sent express mail and will be at your door before 3PM on Thursday.

Let me know if it does not get there by 3PM. If it's NOT delivered by 3PM Thursday, I get the postage cost back and you get to keep the bird!

Dave
 
Thanks Dave!!!

Will do.

I sent some birds to Blake Wilson today via USPS. To guarantee delivery by Thursday they wanted $41.60....ARE THEY NUTS. Now it might be delivered thursday and it only ran $14.50. Hope they stay frozen!!

-D
 
DAve,

Shipping costs has gotten crazy. It's killing eBay customers. I see priced at .99 cents (that are worth about $2.00) and the shipping on the item is $7.00!

A lot of eBay sellers won't list the shipping costs until after the auction closes. At that point they can charge whatever they want and if you refuse to pay the shipping cost, they can give you a negative feedback and get eBay on your case.

I always ask what they want for shipping before bidding and even at that I print out a copy of their reply incase they try to back-paddle.

That teal I shipped you weighed next to nothing at 1lb. 6.9 ozs. for the box and all and it was $18.80 via Express Mail. I'd hate to think what Next Day Air would have been. Gasoline may have gone down, but I guarantee you SHIPPING COSTS won't.

My feeling is.........it was well worth it to shoot over Woodrow!


Dave
 
If you wrap a solid frozen bird in Reflect-x ...it's like bubble wrap with foil on both sides..It should stay frozen for a week or so unless it sets in 80 degree weather.
 
Lee,

I wrapped the frozen GWT in bubble wrap and poured shipping peanuts all around it. It should be fine for 2 days with all the cold weather along the way.

Hey, it was either that or pluck the damn thing and let Dave put all the feathers back together whe they arrived! I just didn't want to go to the trouble of numbering each feather so he'd know which feathers went where :^)

Dave
 
Those packing penuts are good insulation. A dead airspace is one of the best insulators..the reflect-x is about 3/8" thick and has an r value of about 9 on vertical applications. Wrapped in bubble wrap and then in tin foil would be very effective too. Did you wrap that book..or did Judy? If it was you....did you used to do gift wrapping at a department store?? That baby was neat and trim!
 
Lee,

I'm afraid that was me who wrapped your book. 200 years ago when I was in High School I worked part time at Bob Ketcham's Sporting Goods store (Rick Ketcham's dad's store) I was taught to wrap packages and did so every Xmas.

I finally went to work there full time and was the store manager for 9 years back in the dark ages, when low base 12's were $1.99 a box, 12 ga magnums were $2.99 a box. A case of shotgun shells had 500 rounds in it and .22 shorts were .39 cents a box. I bought a new Model 70 in .375 H&H back then and my wholesale cost was $98.00 and there was no damn gun registration! Infact, we used to rent shotguns and deer rifles every hunting season or when someone wanted to try their hand at skeet or trap. And skeet was .25 cents a round! Nowadays, I have to pay more for a Dr. Pepper than what 5 rounds of skeet used to cost me. Not to mention .22 cents a gallon for gas, what ever happened to my favorite wars? GAS WARS ofcourse.......DAMN!

I gotta stop, I'm getting mad and feeling really old:^)

Dave
 
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