Yesterday, around noon, I ordered some parts from Pelican.

This morning, when I opened the door to go to work, the package was on my doorstep.

It was almost spooky.

what parts? sometimes they drop ship...

These came out of their warehouse (914/6 flywheel, plus the seal and new bolts). The stuff that's being drop-shipped in the same order will probably be here next week.

very impressive!

I once ordered a Keith Black piston on a Friday morning PST from a shop somewhere in Cali and had it in my hands in Buffalo @ 10am EST Sat morning... Sure, I paid for express shipping but damn, logistics have come a long way!!! I've had v good luck w/PP as well.

-pt

That's the thing. I took their normal shipping method. I didn't pay for express. I didn't need the parts in a hurry. Indeed, shipping on all of these parts was free. The parts where I paid for shipping are moving more slowly!

Everything I try to order from Pelican seems to come back NLA lately......

James,

guess where the WorldPack and SSF wharehouses Pelican buy's from are located?

WP: San Mateo with corporate web in Hayward.

SSF pretty easy... South San Fran.

It dropped ship from one of those two places.


B

The times I bought from PP I was impressed, maybe 2 days at the most.

You're so close, all they had to do was throw it out the window. I live in the Los Angeles area. It only took them two days. Your right they're fast. Their parts pickers must be on roller skates.

I recently ordered something and the web page said it would be more than a week and it was only a few days. I was pleased also.

When I was rebuilding my engine, I bought a set of OEM valves from Pelican and instructed to have them drop shipped to the shop that was doing my heads. I placed the order completely by internet. Later that day, I found out that Tom had personally dropped the valves off at the shop (it was located pretty close to Pelican, and maybe was on Tom's way home anyway - but still...). On top of that, they even removed the shipping charge! All of this without any prompting from me and no 'bragging' from them. Just business as usual. Needless to say I was very impressed!

Demick

Last time I counted, WorldPack had over 100 wharehouses nationwide compared to SSF's 3. Two in CA. and 1 in AZ.

My favorite is when people on the east coast say: "I received my Pelican parts in one day without extra shipping" um.. unless it is a factory Porsche part, it will drop ship from the nearest wharehouse to your house with it in stock. Typically within 40-50 miles of your house in the WorldPack case.

Porsche ships from two places. Ontario CA. and Atlanta, they used to ship parts from Reno, but that has become a training center for Porsche techs.

Here in SD:

WorldPack is 1 block off of Miramar and 6 lights east of 805.

SSF is 1 block off of Miramar and 7 blocks east of 805.

The system rocks. Pelican has it nailed down.