Re: [Philmont]: Treks book in Fullerton!

Canton, Ohio received package today.

I just talked with Fran on another matter and she stated that all packages
were sent the same day. That was not the plan (ship on 3 separate days
depending on location) but due to a large snow storm were all interstate
roads were closed they had to send them all on one day because they were all
ready a week late.

BTW trek # 17 - both map and bar chart are incorrect. Doug stated that they
are having a small company do the maps now and they messed up. Doug used to
do them all by hand.

Hopefully, no harm, no foul.

YIS
Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Bob Klein" <drbob@troop111.org>
To: "Multiple recipients of list philmont" <philmont@troop47.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Philmont]: Treks book in Fullerton!

> 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
>
>
>
>
>
>
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