On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Jeff Hellige wrote:
> >I've never had a problem with UPS. The only thing that arrived
> >damaged here via UPS had been packed atrociously, was originally
> >addressed to the wrong destination in another state, and, I suspect,
> >was trashed to begin with.
>
> A large percentage of all monitors shipped to/from me in the
> past have been either heavily damaged or destroyed by UPS and they
> were well packed. I had a Mac blue/white G3 shipped to me last year
> when I decided to change machines and UPS shattered one of the
> plastic side panels. It was in the original shipping carton and
> styrofoam inserts. They also banged my DECmate II around enough in
> transit that the drive rails broke apart as well as destroying the
> VR201 that shipped in a seperate box.
>
> Don't get me wrong, they've delivered a lot of stuff
> undamaged as well but when it comes to the things they do manage to
> damage, the packing used has little to do with it. I've gotten a
> number of things that looked like it fell off the back of a truck.
> Even with the form fitting high-density foam that surrounded the
> heavy packages that arrived today, I doubt if they would have
> survived something like that.
>
> Jeff
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I think I mentioned it before relative to UPS but I once shipped a 19" monitor
from here (California) to Virginia IICRC. The monitor made it fine to the guys
driveway (He was watching as the UPS driver pulled up)
It was being kicked off the back of the UPS truck onto the asphalt driveway
that destroyed the monitor. Pretty hard to pack anything (thats big or heavy)
to withstand that...
Peter Wallace
Received on Tue Apr 16 2002 - 13:36:11 BST