I am in possession of the USA Cal Club kit!
I won't have it long, my best multimeters are only 5.5 digits but it affords me the opportunity to test the calibration at all, so for that I'm very appreciative.
I can't imagine that the virus crisis is doing us any good...however the club is still going strong! Currently the kit is with technogeeky.
This is quite disturbing. Since the 10 February post technogeeky has posted once on 11 April. Based on his 10 February post he should have sent it back long before then.
I sent a PM to vindoline asking if he had heard anything from technogeeky before I looked into technogeeky's posting history. Hopefully he will respond here.
If someone misaddresses the package when returning to vindoline it can be lost forever. And packages do disappear in transit with all carriers even when correctly addressed.
Hopefully the kit will turn up, but I'd like to suggest some procedural changes:
Preprinted shipping labels. Use the USPS service to print a return label and an outbound label and email the outbound label to the person getting the kit for verification before shipping. Put the return label in the kit. I think that will assign a tracking number for each leg so it can be tracked even if mischance befalls the person getting the kit.
Place a label on the kit describing it and where it should be sent in the event the person who has it passes away. Covid-19 makes that a much greater risk than before. At present no one dealing with the estate of the person who has the kit would have any clue what to do with it.
Require insurance when shipping.
It might be a good idea to require a security deposit via PayPal to be refunded upon return of the kit. I don't think anyone would sign up to the list to steal the kit, but it's possible. There could also be a penalty factor for delays in turn around not justified by work presented as a means to deter sloth.
Reg