[Heathkit] shipping.. an old sore spot

[Ian]

Interesting!   A few years ago I switched to just FedEx after receiving a
piece of Drake gear shipped form the Midwest to me on the left coast.  It
looked like it had been packaged by a kid wrapping Xmas presents and had no
substantial packaging at all.  However not even the brown wrapping paper
showed any indication of shipping.  It should have been torn off at least I
would have thought.  Looked like it had been hand delivered.

I agree with the Xmas warning.   Several years ago a few weeks before Xmas I
went to UPS to send something my wife had to go to her relatives and she
hadn't planned ahead.

In the parking lot was a tent where you could get your packages accepted and
pay for them.  When I walked around to the back of the tent, here was a
trailer that was being loaded by THROWING each package as hard as they could
into the jumble of packages in the trailer.  I think they had a contest to
see who could throw the greatest distance with the greatest force.  FRAGILE,
HANDLE WITH CARE?   Nah, a challenge to throw it even harder.

I figured there was going to be a lot of broken Xmas presents that year and
vowed that I wouldn't send anything at Xmas time unless it was clothing no
matter what!!!

Ian, K6SDE



>-----Original Message-----
>From: heathkit-bounces at mailman.qth.net
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>Behalf Of WQ9E at btsnetworks.net
>Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 6:06 AM
>To: km1h at jeremy.mv.com; w5sum at glowbugs.com; heathkit at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [Heathkit] shipping.. an old sore spot
>
>I haven't had problems with UPS of FedEx but I have recently gotten some
very badly
>beaten up boxes via USPS.  In both cases damage was minimal but only
because the shipper
>did a very good job of packing.
>
>I wouldn't ship any valuable gear via any shipper during the next 2.5
months or so with the
>Christmas season coming up.  The combination of numerous temporary
employees coupled
>with overloaded systems and short tempers greatly increases the likelihood
of damage.
>
>Rodger WQ9E