8 Oct
2005
8 Oct
'05
6:15 p.m.
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Joe R. wrote:
The idea is that the carrier will be much more careful if a package
is insured for $big_num.
Of course, *every* item is handled with the same care (wink wink, nod
nod), but strangely enough I've never had a shipment damaged that was
insured for over $250.
Doc
That's rather silly. The disks are
worthless where they're at now. Find
a reliable shipper, such as FedEx, insure the hell out of the package and
ship them. I've shipped handreds of pounds (weight) of one of a kind books
More to be a smart-ass than anything, but what good is insuring one of a
kind data? It's the data you're after, not the money, and if it's lost,
you not only lose the data for good, but you then have the uphill
challenge of trying to convince Fedex that the 30 year old unfinished
video game that may or may not have been retrievable from your old floppy
disks was worth what you insured it for.