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

[mikea]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 12:07:57PM -0600, ANTHONY CASORSO wrote:
> 
> Well, may as well join in. I bought my R-390a from eBay. The guy was a
>carpet dealer in New York. I paid ... well a bunch for this radio which
>I had been dreaming of owning for a number of years. The radio was
>shipped UPS is an old color television box that was (maybe) 6 inches
>bigger that the radio. The padding was some old chair cushions and
>ragged pieces of old foam rubber. I wasn't home when it arrived at my
>home near Denver, Colorado but my wife saw the UPS guy shove it out
>the back of the UPS truck onto the pavement and then load it onto the
>two-wheeler for the trip up the driveway. When I got home and heard
>the story I was mortified and went to open the box (which showed quite
>a bit of rough handling). The radio was fine. Just needed a new AGC
>transformer (Z-501 on the IF deck if I remember correctly).
>
> I guess I got lucky too.

>If being dropped out of an aircraft into ... a minefield is "moderately
>rough handling", what would constitute "rough handling"?
Being shipped UPS.
-- David Richerby and Dave Brown

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Mike Andrews, W5EGO
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