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Post by mutt on May 1, 2014 11:46:21 GMT -8
The idea of "going postal" refers to any worker who due to job stress freaks out, and actually refers to a mass murder incident in the Edmond, Oklahoma post office when a relief carrier (fill in postman) cracked up and killed 14 people. This happened in 1986 when Ronnie Raygun was in the process of trying to dismantle most of the federal government, including the post office. Lots of downsizing and long hours, and some decent middle class jobs went bye, bye. And I would argue that most mail people aren't lazy either, just overworked. I guess you can start paying Amazon to fly your wristband to you - maybe it will come with an automatic tightener, so you won't need to expend any effort to make sure its fastened. At least you will avoid having to deal with those irritating underpaid leaches in the post office...
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Post by Cysquatch on May 1, 2014 11:57:32 GMT -8
I don't like the UPS guy either. I had to give them permission to leave my $30 camera bag, but my $300 wristband was left for the taking. Maybe it was the slightly larger box that made him think is was less safe. I have heard that those rules are specified on the shippers end, but I was not happy about it.
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Post by Blacksmile on May 1, 2014 21:03:47 GMT -8
No wristband to me either. I've emailed Ticketmaster a couple of times and they just keep telling me that if they don't arrive I can pick them up at Will Call.
Can this be trusted? Did anyone have to do this last year? Driving to The Gorge from Calgary without my tickets makes me nervous.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2014 5:49:41 GMT -8
No wristband to me either. I've emailed Ticketmaster a couple of times and they just keep telling me that if they don't arrive I can pick them up at Will Call. Can this be trusted? Did anyone have to do this last year? Driving to The Gorge from Calgary without my tickets makes me nervous. No wristbands here either. Call me paranoid, but how I see that scenario playing out is we get to the Gorge early Thursday with no wristbands and can't get into camping. When we finally get to will-call, they check records and see that the tickets were sent out (of course they showed up the day we started the road trip), and refuse to release another set to us. Festival ruined. I'm sure that won't happen due to the whole activation thing, etc. but still. Paranoia and anxiety are going to run at an all time high if that's the case.
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Post by rüstü on May 2, 2014 6:02:36 GMT -8
Last year when I won tickets, I had to go pick them up at will call before they'd let me in the campground. It was really stupid and wasted more than an hour of my time, but it worked out just fine. I think you folks will be ok.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2014 6:29:52 GMT -8
That's good to know.
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Post by davers on May 2, 2014 6:47:41 GMT -8
There's still 3 weeks guys. My weekend 2 Coachella wristband didn't show up until about 2 weeks before the festival. Give it another week, then maybe consider getting worried.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2014 8:59:49 GMT -8
aaaaand they just arrived.
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Post by Blacksmile on May 2, 2014 10:07:10 GMT -8
aaaaand they just arrived. I just got to find the Canada Post sticker saying that I have a package to pick up. Pretty sure that's them. Fuck yeah...
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Post by Blacksmile on May 2, 2014 10:09:13 GMT -8
No wristband to me either. I've emailed Ticketmaster a couple of times and they just keep telling me that if they don't arrive I can pick them up at Will Call. Can this be trusted? Did anyone have to do this last year? Driving to The Gorge from Calgary without my tickets makes me nervous. No wristbands here either. Call me paranoid, but how I see that scenario playing out is we get to the Gorge early Thursday with no wristbands and can't get into camping. When we finally get to will-call, they check records and see that the tickets were sent out (of course they showed up the day we started the road trip), and refuse to release another set to us. Festival ruined. I'm sure that won't happen due to the whole activation thing, etc. but still. Paranoia and anxiety are going to run at an all time high if that's the case. This scenario would be the absolute worst. Can you imagine sitting in the campground all weekend, listening to The National instead of seeing The National.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2014 10:44:44 GMT -8
No wristbands here either. Call me paranoid, but how I see that scenario playing out is we get to the Gorge early Thursday with no wristbands and can't get into camping. When we finally get to will-call, they check records and see that the tickets were sent out (of course they showed up the day we started the road trip), and refuse to release another set to us. Festival ruined. I'm sure that won't happen due to the whole activation thing, etc. but still. Paranoia and anxiety are going to run at an all time high if that's the case. This scenario would be the absolute worst. Can you imagine sitting in the campground all weekend, listening to The National instead of seeing The National. Sitting in Wildhorse with my hand cupped around my ear, desperately hoping for the wind to blow in just the right direction so I can hear a few brief notes of Mr. November.
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Post by rustyironjeff on May 4, 2014 11:04:22 GMT -8
Ticketmaster fucked me again. When anyone else calls their contact number to they always seem to be too fucking busy to take your call? Thus, asking you to "call back later" when the fucking earth explodes and MAYBE I CAN TALK TO A FUCKING HUMAN BEING? We spend a lot of money on their fucking products they sell to never have their shit together enough to bother about repeat customers. My ticket was sent to my Apartment while I was out of town. it sat for 5 days in the office, and then they TOOK IT BACK. WTF UPS WHY SHIP MY SHIT TO MY HOUSE, THEN SHIP THE SHIT BACK? And don't try to fucking tell me I should have been home expecting this package. An email gets sent to me weeks before the package actually shows up> too bad, I'm not going to sit around on my fucking ass for 3 weeks gnawing at the proverbial wooden stick of douchebaggery that is the mail system.
I bet this shit means I have to dick around with Will Call. Wtf is this, does that mean I can't party my ass of to the Thursday afternoon shenanigans that is the opening of the grounds and setting up camp?
Where the fuck is my Amazonian robot? It can fly that shit right to my GPS location via my fucking phone. Like a good little well paid robot.
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Post by Cysquatch on May 4, 2014 11:10:54 GMT -8
Rustu posted somewhere recently that he didn't have any problems telling staff he had to wait for will call when he won tickets. I would at least bring some receipts and confirmation printouts to cover your ass. Maybe make them send you something stating that you have will call tickets, so you can show them that while you are coming in.
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Post by rustyironjeff on May 4, 2014 11:36:28 GMT -8
That's a great idea, thanks! I have an e-mail correspondence that's kind of just given me the runaround with Ticketbaster. Having some kind of identification/verification that yes, it's totally cool for me to camp here I'm not trying to sell drugs out of a camouflage canopy/van and hand out weed infused Honey samples. I do indeed plan to enter the gates and shell out more money to you for good chunes and even better times.
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Post by addicts on May 4, 2014 11:49:25 GMT -8
I'm not trying to sell corn chips out of a camouflage canopy I camped like, 10 cars down from that canopy. Didn't they end up getting arrested?
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Post by rustyironjeff on May 4, 2014 14:09:17 GMT -8
I didn't know that? I just remember jumping out of the line for wristbands so I could jump in the Honey sample line. Then of course back in wristband line land. Two glorious but different worlds living amongst each other. Those characters also were the sketchiest fuckers I saw the whole time....
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Post by kymess_jr on May 4, 2014 17:00:21 GMT -8
They were sketchy but also super nice. In 2011 they made my crew a delicious breakfast and gave us blown glass beads all because we told some people their honey was yummy.
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Post by rüstü on May 4, 2014 20:06:32 GMT -8
I didn't know that? I just remember jumping out of the line for wristbands so I could jump in the Honey sample line. Then of course back in wristband line land. Two glorious but different worlds living amongst each other. Those characters also were the sketchiest fuckers I saw the whole time.... Nowadays they don't let you in the campground without a wristband. Since your car is already in the queue to get in the campsite, you can't drive it to the box office so you have to walk 30 minutes each way. Bring 2 road beers, one for each direction. I met a guy on my walk doing the same thing and we both had hidden road beers in our back pockets that we pulled out at the same time after like 20 minutes, it was some Sasquatch magic.
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Post by emptyfox on May 4, 2014 20:28:52 GMT -8
Ya, will call will be open when you get there on Thursday.
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Post by Goldbart der Hexenmeister on May 4, 2014 23:02:55 GMT -8
I still have a vial of either Molasses or Honey from last year that Pea found near his camp that I somehow pocketed. Still haven't used any of it, because it might have unknown chips.
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