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

[RAY FRIESS]

All I can do is speak from personal experience as a ham for 50 years.  I have had more problems with USPS than UPS or FedEx.  I have had no problems with the latter two, even with UPS pack and ship.  Two months ago I was in Oregon on business.  I met a guy who had TWO almost mint sx111 receivers.  I considered taking them home as baggage on my flight, but thought better of it.  I took them to a UPS store shock packed and shipped them to my home in Utah.  They arrived in the same condition as when I took them to UPS.

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------ Original message------
From: Bry Carling
Date: Thu, Aug 17, 2017 2:04 PM
To: Rick Poole;boatanchors at mailman.qth.net;
Cc:
Subject:Re: [Boatanchors] NEW estate list - more coming I'm sure

Rick you are right.


I have a connection with a major corporation that ships with UPS because they are CHEAP.  90% of the damage IS caused by the shipping company and not by the shipper.


Others may beg to differ or perhaps they have different experiences. This is what I am telling you based on 20 plus years with receiving UPS parcels and I have the pictures to prove it.  They have told us all of the reasons why it CAN'T happen but items arrive at times looking like they have been dropped form 5000 feet and then rolled into a nearly perfect sphere!


That company I am thinking about ships thousands of parcels each month, and employs professional trained people with time proven packing schemes that work well to protect packages.


It's fairly rare now but damage does still happen. At times they have a side hole punctured like a fork lift went through the box. Occasionally something will arrive crushed to pieces with a giant black footprint.


If the wrong gorilla at UPS gets a hold of your package, I don't care HOW many bolts and wooden boards you use, it will get broken.  UPS is not the only company guilty of damaging things. Just one of the worst. And I DO know that they have been making efforts to improve in the past few years.

Most of the time this doesn't happen but it has happened enough times to cause grave concern. They ALSO make it VERY difficult to collect on insurance when they damage something.


For this reason I will not willingly use UPS. I know in some areas of the country Fedex has minor problems too, but generally they are far far better and you get what you pay for! They have a 100% track record with me. Only two damaged boxes in over 20 years and they paid both times.


Yes, your mileage may vary folks. Blame the person packing and shipping items all you want but I can tell you it ain't always necessarily so!


Bry Carling, AF4K



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From: boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net <boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Rick Poole <wa1rkt at comcast.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 8:48 PM
To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] NEW estate list - more coming I'm sure

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

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