![]() ![]() ![]() It took so long, and so many long calls to find the guitar. I was relieved but super irritated with FedEx. I pictured the heat slowly warping the guitar. The guy that it was going to was super cool about it, and he kept telling me that they were in the middle of a crazy heat wave and it was over 100 every day that the guitar was in the warehouse. But, I was stressed, it was a Gibson Axcess and it was sitting in a warehouse that had to be in the 115 degree range. it took me many phone calls and hours on the phone to even get that answer! Eventually the guitar made it to its destination. I had a guitar sitting in a FedEx hub outside of Atlanta for over 3 weeks!! They said the reason was that they were having a shortage of drivers and were backed up weeks in the area. I was on hold 5 or 6 different times for up to an hour and a half each time!! So pissed, but I think they will do something because I believe each of these motors cost anywhere from $65-$250 each from what I can find, so that’s anywhere from $166,000-$640,000 worth of someone’s supply chain…ĭude!!! I had to deal with FedEx last summer. I spent an hour on the phone with FedEx, they’re supposed to call me back. These motors shipped from Hungary and should have gone to a company in Indiana. What looks like happened is that someone slapped my shipping envelope over top of the original shipping doc. Soon, other nonsensical plot elements are introduced. Each box contains 80 motors, so 2,560 of these little bastards!! When the story begins, a sailor sneaks a lady aboard his submarine.which really makes no sense at all. Instead, I have 32 boxes of small stepper actuator motors. Went into the garage, tore down the freight and bam, NO FUCKING DESK. Meanwhile in the U.S., railroads have been cutting costs and reducing headcount. Tonight I tore down my existing desk, removed all gear (Mac, Studio Monitors, tons of shit, lot of work…) and made space. Third, the shipping business over the past decade has not been very profitable a fricking nightmare my source called it until now (see below), which meant there was little investment in new ships. So got my gear sorted out and I decided to begin. Spent the next month figuring out a new home studio layout and what gear I would put in the racks. It arrived in a huge freight bundle all wrapped up. They finished the desk in October (about 24 weeks), long time but they kept in contact, finished it and shipped it out. They said it was taking longer, about 9 weeks to complete. Chatted with them, all was fine, did a lot of research. In April of this year (2021) I ordered a Studio XL desk ( ) from Buso Audio in Hungary. So frustrating it’s comical, thought I’d share. The story of one shipping container from a factory in China to a warehouse in the United States traces the arc of a global supply chain consumed by trouble.
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