[R-390] What a screw up and a rip off !!!

[Richard]

The only way we ship the really expensive stuff at work is by motor 
freight.    Crate it up and mount it on a skid with a shock-watch and 
tilt-indicator on all four sides.  Usually you have a reasonably good 
chance of not getting burned.   Of course shipping like that probably 
costs more that most people on the list pay for radios but when we ship 
a $250K gewgaw cross-country we do like it to get there in one piece.    
I have had stuff from Fair Radio get shipped to me motor freight TCC in 
the past (a radar test set that was too big for UPS).    Then again my 
R-390A did show up in a cardboard box with newspaper stuffing.  It had a 
bent corner on the front panel.  Called Fair and they sent a replacement 
front panel at no charge.  Good guys - been doing business with them 
since the seventies.

73 de Richard, W5SRB