Sorry to hear of your delivery experience with FedEx, Stereo5 - and that it didn't pan out with the Pendragon's. I have speakers being built to in Brighton, England, and though I live in Denmark I'll gladly go on a roughly 1600 mile driving trip (total distance over and back, with a co-driver) to collect them in due time. The thought of hand-made, furniture grade speakers being possibly (or very likely) mis-treated by courier service is simply nerve wrecking.