[Yaesu] Shipping haevy or expensive equipment - was 990 damage

[Jim Miller]

This thread of shipping damage has had a lot of coverage on other reflectors
and the melted down opinion was that if you want it to arrive undamaged that
you do NOT use the USPS OR UPS for the shipping.  FedEx was the best in
general and they talked of another that I do not remember.  If you didn't
pack it so you yourself could guarantee the package can be dropped out of
the moving truck and rolled down a hill, then, to them, it wasn't packed
good enough.

Several people told stories that FedEx had taken the LARGE and HEAVY old
radios or amplifiers with virtually no packing and delivered them intact and
operable.

Good luck,
73, Jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave" <kaiserdr at yahoo.com>
To: <bcarling at cfl.rr.com>; <FT990 at yahoogroups.co.uk>;
<foxtango at yahoogroups.com>; <Yaesu at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: <Yaesu at contesting.com>; <ham-radio-deluxe at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 9:30 AM
Subject: [Yaesu] FT 990 progress shipping


I had exactly the same thing happen. The ham who shipped the 990 handled the
details, but it took eight months to sort it out!

  I now have a real nice 990 for sale, because I have moved into an
apartment in Orlando.

  I am going to hold onto it until the Orlando hamfest because I do not want
to chance shipping it.

  When the entire deal was over getting my insurance claim, I ended up
losing $100 on the price I paid for the radio, and of course the shipping
and claims headaches.

  Dave, AL7HG

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