14 Jun
2003
14 Jun
'03
10:30 a.m.
Some people cant pack an item to save their lives. I
had somebody send me a
zip drive and he packed it in a larger box with no packing and the thing
just bounced around all the way from california to ohio. Of cousre the
plastic bezel broke ( I glued it, unit works fine).
I once had a CRT (just the glass thing, I don't mean a complete monitor)
sent to me by Parcelforce (AKA Parcelfarce), who are also well known for
wrecking parcels [1]
The idiot who sent it put the CRT in a large box with no packing, no
protection round the pins or sealing tube, or anything.
Now what amazes me is how it all arrived in one piece and working (!)....
[1] I was cent an HP9830. HP stuff of that vintage is _solid_. It still
arrived with the metal case dented, several keycaps off, and the
keyboard bezel broken into several pieces...
-tony