RE: Sidewinder & Jab-Tek:
Agreed, completely, with the above positive recommendations.
I like Sidewinder very much, & they're near me, too, so I get super fast shipping (next day delivery, sometimes, or 2nd day for worst case!). If you talk to a guy named "Gary", he's the owner, and will take the time out to give you an honest opinion on ur prospective purchase(s). A very nice touch!
Jab-Tek is also very good w/excellent cust svc, & "jabtek" (the OCC forums poster) monitors the vendor area of our forum. He did an excellent, & super speedy job, correcting an error I made in a CC typo. Top notch svc!
perfectturmoil said:
They should send you a tracking number.. They've always shipped priority mail w/ tracking to me..
Yes, sidewinder ships using Priority Mail.
The Priority Mail tracking # is pretty useless, IMHO.
If you're used to Fed-Ex or UPS, and their continuously updated tracking from destination to destination during the day, ur probably gonna' find Priority Mail tracking sucks. All you'll get is that ur item(s) have been queued for shipping. Then, that they arrived at the final destination (ur house). That's about it. Nothing in between. And they only update once nightly.
Priority Mail is fast, cheap, and reliable (I wouldn't hesitate to use it, tho I prefer Fed-Ex).
Priority Mail tracking is pretty crappy.
JMO's
Strat
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One nice advantage of Priority Mail, tho, is that they regularly deliver on Saturday mornings like ur regular mail, SOP, w/o any additional pricing!
That can have its advantages for us weekend warriors.