[R-390] USPS info (What a screw up and a rip off !!!)

[wli]

I am appalled at what members have suffered through at the hands of the various delivery services in the past few years. Seems that other than a hand-carry as Tish suggests, there is no reliable way.... maybe a courier service would be good for those items that are valued at thousands of dollars (which eliminates 98% of our BA stuff).

in 1997 I bought a R390A from Fair: packed in a single layer box with newspaper... but it arrived unscathed from FedEx. Now I know I was VERY lucky!

When Boeing Surplus was in business, they sold large reinforced fibreglas cases for air shipment of their gear... should have picked one up then. Today I would use one of Dick Arney's boxes or a Military Fastpack.

W. Li