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

[ToddRoberts2001 at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/1/2010 2:32:33 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
stoth47 at yahoo.com writes:

On a smaller scale, I recently ordered an R390A power supply from Fair  
Radio ($45 w/o 26Z5's) so I could replace the one in the EAC that had the  
pronounced transformer hum.  They shipped it USPS even though i requested  Fed X 
Ground.  It was single boxed and had wadded newspaper loosely packed  
around it.  Because of the weight of the transformer, it should have been  double 
boxed or the wadded paper should have been packed more tightly.   Evidently 
it was dropped/thrown somewhere enroute and the single wall USPS  Priority 
Mail box couldn't handle the abuse.  The frame that mounts to the  
trandformer and has the tube sockets on it was so badly bent and damaged that  it's a 
throw away - luckily the transformer survived.   Usually Fair  Radio packs 
thing pretty well so I was surprised when the unit arrived and I  found it 
was damaged.
 
 
 
If you study how someone packs and ships a transformer it will tell you all 
 you need to know
about how much knowledge or care they have in safely packing and shipping  
heavy dense objects.
 
73 - Todd WD4NGG