OK, I confess - I was at your door at 11:43 am. What some guys won't do....
Seriously, though, based on past years when the List was on bowline.org,
there had to have been some kind of staging, because everyone got their
packages pretty much at the same time (like a two day spread). I don't
know that they were staged, but that's what we were told, and the facts
would seem to verify it.
True story - Twice in my Philmont career I was working up ulcers because
of extended waits - in one case, the packages were sitting in an In-Box
at Council, where no one considered them to be of any particular urgency
until an obviously deranged ax-murderer (who closely resembled me)
walked in looking for them in a raging fury; and in the other, a package
mailed directly to my house arrived 10 days late, for reasons that can
only be described in terms of alien abduction or bad karma. In both
cases, my Crews got their #1 choices anyway.
Lesson? - Unless your Crew is really set on one of the really popular
treks (notably 21 and 24), or unless your arrival date unfortunately
coincides with a very large Council contingent with a competent
Contingent Leader who was filling out 12, 16, 20 cards three minutes
after they arrived, your Crew will almost certainly end up with one of
their top 3 choices.
Bottom line, is outside this List-Serve, the sense of urgency is a LOT
lower. Most Crews spend weeks selecting their top five - some spend months.
- Dr. Bob
Donald S. Roberts wrote:
> Okay, at the suggestion of another list member, I called Fran and
> asked. She supplied me with a UPS tracking number. I then went to the
> UPS website and entered the tracking number and found it was delivered
> to my door today at 11:42 am.
>
> So I guess that means it is here!
>
> It would also appear, from what we are hearing on this list, that the
> old tale about staging the packets for simultaneous delivery by shipping
> the outlying ones first is just that, a tale. Fran said they all
> shipped on the same day, and it appears, from the reports on this list,
> that their arrival is cascading outward from New Mexico, as would be
> expected if shipped all on the same day, not simultaneous if shipped on
> distinct days depending how long it is expected to take.
>
> Regards
> Don Roberts
> 808-K
> Fullerton, CA
-------------------------------------------------------
Scouting E-mail Discussion Lists @ usscouts.org
Subscribe/Unsubscribe at http://usscouts.org/lists/
Listserv Commands at http://usscouts.org/lists/lc.asp
-------------------------------------------------------
Send listserv commands to: listserv@troop47.com
Send postings to: philmont@troop47.com
List FAQ found at: http://usscouts.org/lists/faq.asp
List Administrator: philmont_owner@troop47.com
-------------------------------------------------------
As you gather around this virtual campfire with fellow
Scouts and Scouters, do your best to be trustworthy,
loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient,
cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.
-------------------------------------------------------
Received on Wed Mar 23 11:56:13 2005
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Wed Jul 26 2006 - 12:00:02 CDT