Fed Ex just left my driveway
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:12 am
They just left a 7'6" cardboard tube on my porch. It contained a backup CBR845. 
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Fed Ex just left my driveway
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Re: Fed Ex just left my driveway
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:17 am
nice! glad it was in one piece.
Re: Fed Ex just left my driveway
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 12:22 pm
a 7'6" rod shipped in a CARDBOARD TUBE!!!!
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!
Re: Fed Ex just left my driveway
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 12:44 pm
The rod was only 7', and the cardboard was about a 1/2" thick. It is more sold than PVC.
Re: Fed Ex just left my driveway
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:21 pm
Cardboard has a bounce affect PVC will break at a certain point or even crack
Re: Fed Ex just left my driveway
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:35 pm
The only broken rod I ever got in the mail was in a cardboard tube...
Re: Fed Ex just left my driveway
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:20 pm
...thus the tube has remained completely whole 
Re: Fed Ex just left my driveway
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:56 pm
Vladimir_Kazan wrote:...thus the tube has remained completely whole
I've bought, and sold over 300+ rods, and only problem I've ever had was with cardboard. PVC doesn't bend, thus doesn't break (not for me yet), but cardboard bends, and when it does, contents may very well get damaged.
Glad ya got it in one piece!
And it's probably because you did not us UPS!
Re: Fed Ex just left my driveway
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:19 pm
Yeah, I have always shipped rod via PVC, but everyone has shipped them to me in cardboard. None broken... yet! 
Re: Fed Ex just left my driveway
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:21 pm
is that a good rod? i use get powells, i want to take a leap and try something new. like loomis...
Re: Fed Ex just left my driveway
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:18 am
Ahhh there is hardly anything more exciting than seeing that package on your doorstep. Its like Christmas again, and again and again....
Re: Fed Ex just left my driveway
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:45 am
That rod is great for shallow to mid depth cranks. It has the power to throw a D-20, but an 847 is better for that. Today my 101 # Minn Kota arrives via fed ex!!!