Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >