Usps

[1st Shirt Maxer]

1971 what about yesterday. I bought my son his first slot car set and he has been tearing it down, reconfiguring and playing all day today. Now I just need to get some muscle cars instead of the BMW and Audi! and yes that is a pink camp crossbow that belongs to my daughter...all the necessary toys kids need these days.

 

[Dreamster66]

Heh, Speaking of slot cars. How cool was the Christmas of 1971 unk:

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ah....the good old days!

 

[twistedmax]

Three plus years of shipping seats all over the world............. no issues with USPS . They do however do some silly things.

 

[Fire-medic]

I bought some fork parts from a member on here. I sent off the USPS mail order w/tracking # to CA. he didn't get it. I had to wait for 60 days to get reimbursed. The member got pretty-hot waiting for the original mailing, he thought I hadn't mailed it. I finally scanned the USPS money order w/his name & address on it & the register receipt w/the date of purchase. After that, he agreed to wait. As-soon as I could, I applied-for and got the refund, and sent it Express Mail to the guy, this time he got it. And, I got my RICOR's.

When I was in my slot-car phase, so-was the rest of the country, in the early '60's. First I had a 1/32-scale set, then I went to HO & had over 60' of track in my bedroom. I still have a system, in the original box. Aurora Model Motoring, and there was one set they sold endorsed by Stirling Moss. I got his autograph on my F1 race ticket at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix during one of the mid-1960's races.

Here are some of my survivors from those days. I liked to paint my cars different from stock. There was a hobby store in PA (Auto World?) I used to buy things mail-order, like transfers (decals), tools, parts, & etc. to use on the cars. If you ordered enough, they would send you free stuff you could choose from a list, a good 'hook.' I copied some pictures I got out of old Road & Track magazines to make replicas of the scoring towers at Belgium's Spa racecourse, out of balsa wood, which I have managed to hold-onto for 50 years and a dozen household moves, or more. Working on the cars taught me about basics of electricity, how to disassemble mechanical things and then put 'em back-together correctly, painting techniques, and the hard realization that not-everyone is ethical, when a couple of teen classmates who were "friends" stole a bunch of my equipment. I just couldn't understand why someone who was my "friend" would do something like that, probably my first real lesson about crime and misplaced trust. :confused2::damn angry:

Note the motorcycle in the group picture, an Aurora slot car. They were top-heavy, and didn't really work very well, so are a rare original vehicle. Like some people think of our beloved VMaxes, it goes OK in a straight line but can't corner. :biglaugh: The balsa wood European scoring tower is in there, and a pic of a rheostat controller, which gave much-better control than the stock Model Motoring controller, which was a tiny steering wheel on a 'dashboard.' I wired my rheostats to RCA plugs, and had 'dynamic-braking' which used a 9V battery to produce greatly-enhanced stopping power. A great deal of fun for an 11 year-old.

I'm old-enough to remember when the first Aurora slot cars used AC 'vibrator' cars, before they went to DC, like everyone else.

 

[KJShover]

Awesome!

It's kind of funny comparing what was a toy 40 years ago is how a hobby. The stuff they have out now for kids really doesn't compare to the original stuff. How many of use learned their electrics from using a different winding or stronger magnets and even gear ratios from these cars. I still fire up my PS3 every now and then for something other than movie streaming, but old school toys were the **** unk:


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[FootNote]

I am trying to remember, Due to the budget problem they are having I read somewhere that they were actually going to start a clothing line, you know jackets and stuff. Was wondering if that was a thing or not.

Edit:

Found it.

 

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1971 what about yesterday. I bought my son his first slot car set and he has been tearing it down, reconfiguring and playing all day today. Now I just need to get some muscle cars instead of the BMW and Audi!View attachment 38122 and yes that is a pink camp crossbow that belongs to my daughter...all the necessary toys kids need these days.

I've been trying to get my kids to do something other than look like zombies in front of their laptops all summer. I had a old, hand me down go kart in the basement for a few years. I spent a couple nights this week fixing it up. Finally got it running yesterday. They love it! Even though it rained yesterday, they still rode around thru the mud. The back half of the yard is destroyed but I could care less. Seeing them slinging mud for past two days is priceless.

Oh, I've had good luck with USPS.

 

[KJShover]

I've been trying to get my kids to do something other than look like zombies in front of their laptops all summer. I had a old, hand me down go kart in the basement for a few years. I spent a couple nights this week fixing it up. Finally got it running yesterday. They love it! Even though it rained yesterday, they still rode around thru the mud. The back half of the yard is destroyed but I could care less. Seeing them slinging mud for past two days is priceless.

Oh, I've had good luck with USPS.

That's what it's all about. There is more to life then call of duty and zombies :biglaugh:

 

[Blurr]

Yes, theres RTS and Turn Based too! For a while I used to test games. Nothing fun about it. I got so burnt out I don't want to play checkers.

A while back I put the loner shim kit in the mail via USPS. About a month later I got an email from Sean asking if I had indeed put it in the mail. Something like 6-7 weeks after I shipped it it showed up at it's destination, if i remember correctly.

 

[RaWarrior]

You can't blame the usps too much. They're in the uniquely ****** position of being controlled and regulated by the government, but they don't receive any government funding. The USPS is absolutely hemorrhaging money. They lost billions last year, but the feds won't let them make any changes to correct it. How they even still function is beyond me, they must be billions in debt.

Their latest proposal is to stop doorstep delivery (on foot mail carriers) and require these people to have a mailbox, or curbside cluster box for apartments. Said this would save them $6 billion a year. Being stereotypical lazy americans, people are already having a **** fit about they would have to walk all the way to the street to get their mail instead of it being on their doorstep. I'm sure the feds will block this anyway.

 

[fltinstructor]

Over the last couple of years I have had packages not show up where I sent them. I had a starter I shipped to Wildweasel in Portugal over 3 months now and the tracking still only shows "Acceptance and Depart USPS Facility" here in Houston, TX. That was on April 30th. Call after call and they can't tell me any more than I can already see when I put in the tracking number on line. The Priority Mail is very iffy also. It also can take more time than what's advertised.