On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, Brian Chase wrote:
> I'd estimate the weight at somewhere between 150-200lbs.
BTW, the maximum weight for a UPS package is 150 lbs.
> my first "sizeable" VAX, a MicroVAX-II in BA123, was delivered by UPS. I
> watched in horror as the guy dropped it off the back of his truck from a
> height of about 4-5ft right onto the concrete.
My MicroPDP-11/23 in BA23 arrived in much the same fashion. The guy just
heaved it out the back. The box was so beat up from that and whatever
previous parcel rugby to which it had already been subject that it had
multiple large holes in it, and the styronuts were leaking worse than
Windows 95 at 30 days uptime. There were no sides anymore; the whole thing
looked a lot like a big (ripped) cardboard pillow. Thankfully, the packer (a
Mailboxes Etc, actually (!)) had done a decent job, and the machine was
undamaged.
I forget who told me, but was taught that, when packing an item to be
shipped via UPS, you should engineer your solution to withstand drops onto a
concrete floor from an altitude of at least 3 feet or 1 meter.
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Jeffrey Sharp
Received on Tue Oct 15 2002 - 19:47:01 BST