[78-L] David Lennick really knows how to pack 78's for shipment!!!!

[David Lennick]

Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> At 05:58 PM 12/18/2009, you wrote:
>> Thanks for the kind words. What Robert failed to mention is that we'd both
>> written off that shipment as lost. Know when I sent it?
>>
>> OCTOBER 1! From Lewiston NY (so much for Martha and her dogs).
>>
>> Media Snail, indeed.
>>
>> dl
> 
> I didn't think the snail mail service was worth mentioning to the 
> list but it's ok that you brought it up. Now where can I find a 
> complete unbroken set of all seven Top Ten sets? The CD transfers are 
> good but I want the 78's too!! Guess I'll have to start searching 
> that bay site for them......

It's worth mentioning because eBay, as I understand it, allows sellers to 
charge only the Media Mail shipping rate of $4 (although is that per disc? Can 
you make a killing on a Gilbert and Sullivan set of 11 discs?)..I've had hardly 
any problems using Media Mail over the years, but this was an exception. CD's I 
shipped to Bulgaria took less time to arrive than this package did.

I found 6 or all 7 of the Top Ten sets on eBay one time, but the idiot didn't 
pack them well and there was some smashage. These things are pressed on very 
unstable shellac to begin with, and the Fibber McGee and Molly set in 
particular seems prone to self-destructing..I ran across broken and incomplete 
sets for years before finding a good one.

dl

> 
>> Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
>>> Arriving today was a 3 record set in it's original album of Capital
>>> CC 20 Fibber McGee, & Molly, On The Night Before Christmas which also
>>> includes them doing Twas The Night Before Christmas. Both tales also
>>> include the Teeny character as well as The Kings Men with Billy Mills
>>> & His Orchestra.
>>>
>>> The whole thing was triple boxed with some other packing material &
>>> was unbroken inside the 3rd box. Thanks Dave, you packed it 
>> really well.....