[ARC5] How delivery services treat our radio packages.

[Richard Knoppow]

    Before UPS there was railway express and freight. On You Tube 
one can find railroad company training films on freight handling. 
That anything survived this is amazing. One needs very careful 
packaging to use UPS or Fed-X. I have gotten stuff just wrapped 
in brown paper and stuck in a box. This won't work for something 
like a typewriter or radio receiver but shippers still do it. No 
brains at all or else abysmally lazy. The outside showing no 
damage is meaningless. A place I worked for once got an 
artificial echo machine shipped in air express. Its a large, 
about 4' x 8' box with a sheet of steel in it. No damage on the 
outside but when opened to set it up the entire sheet of steel 
was collapsed in one end of the box. We never found out what 
happened but I suspect either the load shifted in the airplane or 
it went through some very rough weather. It was very peculiar 
because there was not a mark on the outer cardboard box or the 
inner plywood case. OTOH, when demonstrating one of these in New 
York I watched the labor gang at the hotel receiving dock just 
push it off the top of a pile of stuff. This despite being marked 
Fragile Handle with Care. Just lazyness. It survived but we were 
very angry because it was our business. This stuff goes on all 
the time.
   One suggestion for not too large things is to ship them via 
Greyhound. You have to deliver it to them and pick it up but they 
are much gentler than the better known services.
    There is a fence with a gate around our house. Gate is never 
locked. I have had Fed-X guys just throw packages over the fence. 
Lazy.

On 5/5/2020 11:27 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> On 5 May 2020 at 12:40, arc5 at ix.netcom.com wrote:
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>> How delivery services treat our radio packages.
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>> https://www.facebook.com/100006272281741/posts/2661672077385176/?d=null&vh=i
> UPS=Universal Package Smashers
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> Ken W7EkB
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Richard Knoppow
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