[Boatanchors] NEW estate list - more coming I'm sure

[Rick Poole]

At 08:31 PM 8/16/2017, RAY FRIESS wrote:


>I have advised her that the best thing to do for shipping is to take 
>it to a UPS store and let them pack and ship.


Good evening, Ray.

Please reconsider that advice.  UPS hasn't gotten the name "United 
Parcel Smashers" for nothing.  When I first got interested in boat 
anchors, I got several pieces of Collins and Hammarlund gear shipped 
in by UPS.  About half of the pieces were damaged in shipment, and in 
every case UPS refused to pay claiming inadequate packing, which in 
one case was marginally justified but the rest of the time was pure 
Bravo Sierra.

One time I had five radios of the IC-735 / TS-120 class that belonged 
to the Catholic church in Haiti, and I was shipping them to a 
volunteer in CA to be repaired pro bono.  I took them to the local 
UPS facility and asked them to pack and ship them for me.  The person 
wrapped each radio in a couple of layers of small-cell bubble wrap, 
put all five of them in one box, filled the box only half full of 
peanuts and called it good enough.  I had to, uh, convince him to 
repack them properly.

I switched to Fedex and have never had a bit of shipping damage, even 
with a couple of pieces that really were inadequately packed.

This is all personal experience, YMMV, but I would never let UPS 
anywhere near any ham gear I needed to ship.



Rick WA1RKT
Londonderry, NH
Catch me on 14.300 MHz Intercon / MMSN most days