[Yaesu] FT-990 damage

[Bry Carling]

Steve, for every bad story about Fedex, I bet we could get 10 or
20 about UPS and USPS. The difference is that remarkable now.

I think we are drifting the topic a bit though.

Can someone recommend any other Yaesu repair places?

Steve Harrison wrote:

> Two more ancient tales of woe by Fedex. In 1991, I was at a remote site in
> New Mexico waiting for some equipment to arrive overnight express by Fedex.
> Here came the truck, he opened the back door, and asked for help getting
> the boxes out. That was because two guys were needed to hold the bottoms on
> the boxes which had come apart because someone (Fedex always disclaimed
> responsibility, even though the boxes were picked up from inside our plant
> in Virginia) had let the bottoms of the boxes get soaking wet. Fortunately,
> the equipment was wrapped in plastic and there was lots of foam insulation
> that kept the water from getting to the equipment.
> 
> Spin forward to 1994: we were in Hawaii and had shipped a whole 40 foot
> trailer full of all sorts of equipment to the Big Island. We went to the
> Fedex depot with our own truck to pick it all up. One of Hawaii's famous
> gully washer rain squalls started up and within a few minutes, you couldn't
> see the street from Fedex's front door.
> "We're here to pick up shipment blahblahblah."
> "Lemme see where it is."
> Minutes tick by.
> "OK, we've found part of it over here in the warehouse."
> 
> We load up what they had in the warehouse.
> 
> "Where's the rest of it? We shipped it all over inside a trailer just so it
> would all be together. And WE were supposed to unload the trailer as we
> packed it First-In, Last-Out and needed to load it into our truck as we
> packed it into the trailer."
> 
> "Still looking."
> 
> More minutes tick by and the rain squall passes.
> 
> Finally: "OK, we've found the rest, it's out there in the lot under that
> shed roof."
> 
> Fedex had a large roof out over part of their rear parking area with no
> sides, packed tight with cardboard boxes. We walked out there; all boxes
> were soaking wet from rain blowing under the shed roof. We found our boxes,
> soaking wet, laying in puddles on the ground; we were HIGHLY pissed off as
> all the boxes had been on pallets back at our plant; the Fedex lady had no
> idea who'd taken them off the pallets nor why. We had to rip the individual
> boxes open, remove the equipment and put it into our truck; took us nearly
> 4 hours versus the half hour it would have taken to move the original
> packed pallets.
> 
> I've tried DHL several times with no problems so far. I also have never had
> a problem with USPS except that if a box looks like it's "leaking"
> something, they'll quarantine it until you come down and explain what the
> "wet" spot might be. They did that with a box for me from Japan that
> arrived with what looked like an oily spot on the top; turned out not to
> have been related to the contents of my own box at all but they made me
> open the box in the post office quarantine area so they could make certain
> it hadn't "contaminated" other boxes it had touched.
> 
> Steve, K0XP
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