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

[Tisha Hayes]

For these uber-expensive transactions running into the tens or hundreds of
thousands of dollars I would rather escort something personally than to
entrust it to a shipping company or the USPS.

It just seems crazy to ship something that expensive and let the minimum
wage guy bounce it from loading dock to truck. I frequently need to take
very expensive test gear with me when I go to a customer location (Rohde
Schwarz FSH18) and would rather lug it through airports than to ship it. My
manager suggested that I just pack up everything in a big box and ship it to
a job site. I think he is crazy and doesn't remember the previous
experiences where we tried to ship stuff.

Most recently we sent stuff to the US Park at Sandy Hook New Jersey. UPS
dropped the pallet off at the park service headquarters where nobody would
sign for it or put it in the warehouse. It sat in the rain for three days
before we could get out there to do the work. Then, when the job was done,
it took UPS TWO MONTHS to return the box back to us. By then, everything bad
been so badly mangled that we had to throw most of the gear away.

Before that experience we sent test gear to Puerto Rico where they lost the
entire shipment. It was found six weeks later, sitting in the jungle, the
cabinet filled with almost a foot of water.

For lots of money on any project I would rather deliver it in person and
receive payment the same way.

-- 
Ms. Tisha Hayes/ AA4HA
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