17 Mar
2013
17 Mar
'13
5:43 p.m.
On 3/17/2013 5:29 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
I had someone actually ship me a IBM 14" VGA monitor in an empty box by
Parcel Post. He seriously just put it in the box and took it to the post
office. Not even in there tight. There was 2 inches around it on all
side and it just sat on it's plastic stand. It arrived in perfect
shape. My mind was blown when I opened the box. I didn't know if I
should be angry or jump for joy. When the shipping gods decide it gets
there safe it gets there safe. When they decide it won't it wont no
matter what. It is not for us mortal men to understand their whims.
Therefore I
conclude that my original statement still holds: J. Random
Ebay User is worse than a UPS Store franchise.
A while back, I bought an HP
laptop.
The seller carried it to the post office, dropped it into a flat-rate box,
and then she dropped the adhesive cover strip and the backing paper from
the shipping label in as the only packing material.
It came through just fine!
I've had other small items with massive amounts of styrofoam turds and
half a dozen thicknesses of cardboard that were mangled beyond recognition.
But, I have never had an item packed full of angry gorillas receive any
damage at all.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com