OT: Rant about UPS...

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat Jun 14 17:30:43 2003

> Some people cant pack an item to save their lives. I had somebody send me a
> zip drive and he packed it in a larger box with no packing and the thing
> just bounced around all the way from california to ohio. Of cousre the
> plastic bezel broke ( I glued it, unit works fine).

I once had a CRT (just the glass thing, I don't mean a complete monitor)
sent to me by Parcelforce (AKA Parcelfarce), who are also well known for
wrecking parcels [1]

The idiot who sent it put the CRT in a large box with no packing, no
protection round the pins or sealing tube, or anything.

Now what amazes me is how it all arrived in one piece and working (!)....

[1] I was cent an HP9830. HP stuff of that vintage is _solid_. It still
arrived with the metal case dented, several keycaps off, and the
keyboard bezel broken into several pieces...

-tony
Received on Sat Jun 14 2003 - 17:30:43 BST