Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/03

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Re: Leica NJ's packing material
From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 17:37:42 -0800

I sent my M6 in a new, fairly large, cardboard box, full of peanuts, camera
in a zip lock bag and wrapped in bubble wrap immersed in the peanuts. It
was returned, in a sealed plastic bag, in a very small box, wrapped in a
few layers of brown paper.

Jim

At 09:18 PM 3/3/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Jim:
>
>Did you and Ting send your cameras in their original boxes, or packed some
>other way.  If they were in their original Leica box, the packing in that
>is probably sufficient.  If they were just bare bodies, I would be a little
>pissed with Leica unless that is the same way you shipped it to them.  I
>have found the packaging computer hard drives come with fits a M camera
>fine.  I used this for shipping an M3. 
>
>Regards,
>
>Robert
>
>
>At 03:29 PM 3/3/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>My M6 arrived, packed the same way. It was in for RF alignment. It's a
>>wonder it didn't need it again, after the FedEx trip, with basically zero
>>packing material.
>>
>>But to their credit, the RF is tack on, and they turned it around very
>quickly.
>>
>>Jim
>>
>>PS... there are far less major injuries in Australian football, than in
>>American football. Americans have computer designed padding everywhere.
>>Aussys are basically naked.
>>
>>Is there a clue here?
>>
>>Jim
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>At 06:13 PM 3/3/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>>
>>>Just got my R8 + winder bak from Leica's service dept in NJ.
>>>
>>>The packing material consists of
>>>1) sealed plastic bag
>>>2) 3 sheets of brown wrapping paper..
>>>
>>>Are they trying to cut cost or is the R8 so robust that they think
>>>packing material is unnecessary???
>>>
>>>just curious,
>>>Ting
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>