Hey Canada Post!! Sunrise is where the Panthers play

If I had written the title to be TCDB Trade 481, I probably wouldn't get many views.  But this is a story that is worth telling.

First up, I'll start at the beginning.  Back in JULY, when I was trading quite a bit, I offered up a trade to Jesse (TCDB ID:  doogie_13) hopefully exchanging hockey cards both ways.  Jesse countered back as he couldn't locate one of the cards (not uncommon in the TCDB world), and we moved forward.  

Both of us marked our packages sent on July 17th, which was the day after the trade.  This is where the fun begins.

 

Knowing that trades across the Canadian border can take up to 4 weeks sometimes, I knew that there could be some time involved.

August 19th rolls around, Jesse was concerned and sent me a quick note on the site, asking me if the cards had arrived yet.  I replied that they hadn't and wasn't truly upset because I had another envelope (1 of 3 in that trade) that hadn't arrived yet (and that one still hasn't!) and would wait patiently.

I marked the trade as unfinished on September the 18th, as 2 months had gone by and I wasn't expecting anything to arrive, we all know how the PO can get, right?!

Jesse messaged me on October 5th, saying that the PO had finally returned the envelope to him, marking it with "insufficient address".  Now I've had probably 3 dozen trades back and forth from Canada, all using the same "Sunrise" city designation.   Never a problem.  I've even traded once before with Jesse, no problem.

Jesse went to the PO the next day and they told him "they don't recognize Sunrise as a place", so he had to address it to Ft. Lauderdale.

HEY CANADA POST!!   You're in Canada right?  Hockey is your national game right?   The Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League play in SUNRISE, not Fort Lauderdale.   On a good day, I can walk to the rink where the Panthers play in 30 minutes.  Drive there in 5 mins.

To get to Ft. Lauderdale, I would have to drive through a couple of other suburbs.  

The cards that I have displayed in this post arrived this past Tuesday, and I'm grateful to Jesse for letting me know about the whole postal mess up.  

Jesse, thank you very much for the trade and all the follow up!!  It's traders such as yourself which made the TCDB site such a great place to trade.

Enjoy the hobby, despite the post office!

Robert

'86 Topps Football has never stood a chance

It really wasn't that long ago I announced my intentions to start putting together the '86 Topps football set.  I didn't think originally that it would take me a long time to put it together, what with the only real big $$ card in the set being the Jerry Rice rookie.  But I certainly didn't think that I would be on the verge of completing the set this quickly.  

The want list is down to 57 cards after receiving 4 more today from fellow blogger Chris who sent me a quick trade offer last week and the PWE arrived quickly at the house today.

This was the original group of 5 cards offered up in the trade, the key pair being the Bruce Smith and Al Toon RC's.  All 4 footballers I do remember from the 80's, which is another reason I've enjoyed collecting this set.  A lot of recognizable names makes it more fun, especially when you start taking trips down memory lane.  

What was very cool is Chris added these 4 cards along with the others to fill up the PWE a bit more.  The Goligoski is from the 16-17 OPC set, something I've barely started on so far with just 27 cards in hand.  I'll never sneer at any Maple Leafs base cards from current sets as I slowly build that collection as well.  

I have another TCDB trade en route which will knock off a quarter of what I have left on the list, meaning my want list will be in the 40's.  A lot of trades with both bloggers and TCDB members have really made this set easy to put together, much easier than I originally thought it would be.

The want list really never did stand a chance...

Enjoy the hobby!!

Robert

TCDB Trade week #3: althib

Finishing off the trade week with another repeat trade partner, J.F. (TCDB ID: althib).  J.F. reminded me why I enjoy trading with my brethren to the north.

I get hockey.   Lots of hockey.

I sent J.F. some early to mid 80's Topps baseball commons + an early 90's Gretzky Score card, and in return I got some PC help, and the start of a couple more OPC sets.

The Keith Tkachuk PC is starting to grow nicely.  Part of the reason is that I took time a few weeks ago to add a bunch of cards to the want list.  These 5 bring the total up to 179, and what's nice is I still have a lot of base card needs for the PC.  Shouldn't be too hard building it up more without breaking the bank.

I don't know what happened for these two releases, but I could title a post for each of them "the dead zone".  Both 2010-11 (Top two rows) and 2016-17 (bottom row) I am virtually starting from scratch on both of the sets.  I must have went on hiatus or what I don't know, but both of these sets were virtually non-existent when I added them to my TCDB OPC want list.  Needless to say, I need hundreds of cards for both of these sets, so if any of you hockey collectors have any doubles lying around, just hit me up.

Thank you for the trade J.F., the cards are really appreciated!  Look forward to the next one...

Enjoy the hobby.

Robert