[time-nuts] another Ebay mixup
SAIDJACK at aol.com
SAIDJACK at aol.com
Sat Jun 9 19:57:59 UTC 2007
In a message dated 6/9/2007 04:59:13 Pacific Daylight Time,
cfharris at erols.com writes:
>Bubble wrap is ok for light little things, but not for heavy pieces of test
>equipment. They need carefully fitted dense foam, and double boxing.
>-Chuck Harris
Hi Chuck,
on the HP stuff (5370B etc) it wouldn't take more than a minute to remove
both handles to prevent what happened to my unit when using bubblewrap. But yes,
shipping heavy units is tough to do right. So far I've had:
A Tektronix scope and an Agilent scope shipped to me with less than 1 inch
of simple "pellets" on all sides. The pellets were crushed of course, and both
scope's protruded through the packaging when I got the disasters at my door.
Same happened to a big scope we had sent to our work ($50K new, and they
spent $5 on packaging). A total of four units damaged so far. And UPS/Fedex/USPS
don't feel responsible due to incorrect packaging.
Don't know why it's so difficult for folks to overpack. Worst case, one can
have it professionally packed at MailBoxes etc. or the like.
bye,
Said
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