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Subject: Re: [Leica] how to pack for fed-ex?
From: Jim Hemenway <Jim@hemenway.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 19:19:56 -0400
References: <3.0.2.32.20030821175011.00fadaac@pop.infionline.net>

Amen to that!  I've had more problems with UPS, (especially) and Fedex 
than with US priority mail.

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Jim - http://www.hemenway.com



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
> 
> msmall@infionline.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!



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