The thread running here reminds me of the questions that often show up about antennas.
Individual personal experiences (anecdotes) are seldom good indicators. Like most, I'll be inclined to avoid something after having a bad experience with it, whether it's a particular type of antenna or a package delivery service, but that is purely subjective and any association with reality is purely coincidental. Often I'll find that my bias is not deserved. If choosing an antenna, it's efficiency is far more important than whether someone worked rare DX from the bottom of a pileup with it running 1 watt with it. It's the same with delivery services. And, like antennas, a delivery service with an excellent design, as all three in this discussion seem to have, can suffer from individual problems caused by weak links, whether it's a bad solder connection, water in the coax, a sloppy, inattentive employee or an accident. My wife and I have shipped literally thousands of packages over the past decade using all three of the services mentioned. Yes, some shipments arrived later than planned, but none anywhere as late as Tom Hanks with that much-abused soccer (foot) ball in the film "Castaway". But that's yet another anecdote. Ron AC7AC _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
