17 Mar
2013
17 Mar
'13
6:07 p.m.
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, mc68010 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.
Amen, Brother.
A guy in Florida sent me a Xerox 820-II in a box that didn't allow any
space around the system. The keyboard was just sitting on top of the CPU
and the box flaps closed over it. The result was not pretty. I spent
about two days straightening out metal parts and super-glued the case
(which was broken into a half-dozen pieces) back together. Doesn't look
all that bad and works fine.
Later the same month (must have been something in the water), I was a sent
a Corvus 20-Meg drive packed in the same manner (this despite an explicit
request to BE CAREFUL with packing). Every plastic post inside the unit
was snapped off from repeated handling by the Samsonite gorillas, but
incredibly the hard disk survived.
They don't make equipment with this kind of durability any more...
Steve
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