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Andrew Schuetze
29-04-2005, 23:47
I'm curious :rolleyes:

The very friendly and polite folks at the MCS desk gave me the impression that FedEx would take their time with the delivery of 340 robot crates since it was donated shipping. I was thinking on the order of 3 to 4 weeks.

We took delivery of our crate at 11:00 AM this morning just five days of travel time.

Anybody else take delivery of their crate this week or expect it early next?

How does this compare to last year?
Jverdon
29-04-2005, 23:53
Our robot got home yesterday April 28, at about 1:00 pm. We were very suprised to see it get home so fast. FedEx did an awesome job.
Emily Pease
30-04-2005, 00:01
The same thing happened with us; they gave us an estimate of anywhere from a few days to a month. We're hosting the Beantown Blitz on May 21st, and we wanted to make sure our robot would be there, so our advisor drove the robot back to Boston in a rented SUV and we shipped the crate full of tools and other random pit stuff.

The crate arrived on Wednesday, so there was no need for any of this, but I guess we were better safe than sorry!
David Guzman
30-04-2005, 00:04
We got it the wednsday after the event. It is good to have our bot back we were missing it alredy.

Dave
gburlison
30-04-2005, 00:15
Our Crate arrived yesterday.
geeknerd99
30-04-2005, 00:16
We got ours the Monday after the championships:eek:! I thought the robot was a mirage at first, but... it wasn't. There it was! Our robot sitting in the middle of the practice field, with the crate already stowed away for next year!
Kevin Kolodziej
30-04-2005, 02:39
Dang...we opted for the expedited shipping (at quite a hefty price I might add) to ensure that we would have the robot for a demo tomorrow. Looks like we may not have needed to do that...but oh well, like Emily said, better safe than sorry.

Kev
Ricky Q.
30-04-2005, 09:27
Our robot returned home to Oconomowoc HS on Tuesday.
neilsonster
30-04-2005, 10:02
We were expecting to get ours back in 6 weeks and it was back yesterday.
kjohnson
30-04-2005, 10:32
Our crate got back about 2 Thursday afternoon - I was able to go into the shop Friday morning and uncrate everything in about 30 minutes. I wasn't expecting it back until sometime next week.
pyroslev
30-04-2005, 20:50
Our crate got back about 2 Thursday afternoon - I was able to go into the shop Friday morning and uncrate everything in about 30 minutes. I wasn't expecting it back until sometime next week.

I walk into Math Analysis on Thursday studying for a test and I see the Fed Ex truck pull up. That's good timing.
Daniel_H
30-04-2005, 22:13
Ours is stuck at the Brazilian customs hehe...but it's going to be released soon.
Ellery
01-05-2005, 21:48
We got both of ours back last Thursday April 28 which was a record time. Our team still needs to get the costs down a bit more since all the shipping and Drayage came out to be about $1600 for the return trip using MCS/Jevic.

Till next year!

Ellery
Doug G
02-05-2005, 10:44
We got both of ours back last Thursday April 28 which was a record time. Our team still needs to get the costs down a bit more since all the shipping and Drayage came out to be about $1600 for the return trip using MCS/Jevic.

Till next year!

Ellery

WOW $1600? For what? Did you have an extra crate of equipment?

Anyhow, FedEX estimates that our crate will be back home around Cinco de Mayo - Then it will be Fiesta Time!!
Ellery
02-05-2005, 10:55
Doug G,

Yes we had a second crate for tools and the cart. So the $1600 = Drayage for 2 crates + Shipping & Handling of 1 crate back (@$1.25/lb for 652#)

Ellery
Conor Ryan
03-05-2005, 12:32
ours got in today, now we have to figure out what to do with it.

Just a side note, MCS and FedEx having almost nothing to do with each other. I used to think they had something to do with each other but once I read the sign at the Shipping Desk (it was right next to our pit area so i couldn't miss it) But, they don't have any ties with each other. But you can check the stuff out, MCS and FedEx aren't tied together at all, they are 2 seperate companies and shipping services.