I love it. Just spoke with the usps at 1-800-askusps and they attitude is whooops sorry but we are not going to reimburse you. I will call acidrod tomarrow and get the new blanks ordered. They are preaty good about shipping fast and cheap. OLast week when I was shipping out some flies for a swap the postal service said, "Hey bob why don't you use our service to ship your rods you build?" Well I think they just got their answer. The shipments had to be hit preatty hard to break the pvc pipe it was wrapped in. Maybe the usps should have bought dhl they would have fit right in LOL