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

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 11:25 PM 12/18/2009, you wrote:
>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'm just glad that I finally got your package.

>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

Well I'll keep looking then till I can complete a set of my own. 
Might have to buy a few incomplete sets in order to make up a complete one!!