Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]my wife tells me the packages have arrived home from fedex. i am half expecting to open my case and overturn it and shake out small, precision metal peices, each deformed in a unique way, amidst finely ground glass powder littered with the odd shard of dagger-shaped multi-coated glass. :-( - -rei On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:50:11PM -0400, Marc James Small wrote: > At 07:21 AM 8/21/03 -0400, Rei Shinozuka wrote: > >how to pack for fedex? that should have been my question LAST > >week. > > Yes, you should have asked. Send cameras by national mail, NOT by FedEx, > UPS, or their ilk. These folks are brutal on the packages entrusted to > their care: there IS a reason that they make a profit, and the reason is > the low wages they pay their help which, in turn, means that they hire > Harry the Gorilla and Ralph the Moron-Who-Should-Be-Institutionalized as > their loaders. > > BIG shippers -- LL Bean and Eddie Bauer and QVC -- sell clothes for the > most part and these companies know how to pack clothing so that it will not > be damaged. But a precision instrument ought NEVER be entrusted to the > care of these ham-handed apes. > > Marc - -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html