[time-nuts] Be aware of test equipment seller orzel-enterprises oneBay
Peter Gottlieb
nerd at verizon.net
Tue Sep 11 21:45:06 UTC 2012
It all works in UPS's favor. Larger, more robust packaging adds to
weight and dimensional charges. The incentives are all there for them
to be as rough as they can get away with. Why take extra care and go
slower when you just blame the customer, and win by getting more money
in the process?
I appreciate the problem of improperly packaged goods, just pointing
out the financial incentive angle.
I once sold a receiver and shipped it UPS. I used multiple wraps of
heavy bubble wrap in a box, then that weird military cushioning which
is like scouring pads, inside a double walled outer box. You could
drop this thing 20 feet. But it didn't survive being run over by a
truck! Tire marks and all. UPS denied the claim because the inside
box was previously used, even though not shipped, it had labels from my
company, and they defined that as used. So yeah I got myself a bad
attitude towards them.
Peter
Sep 11, 2012 05:15:48 PM, jwsmail at jwsss.com wrote:
On 9/11/2012 8:37 AM, Gregory Muir wrote:
> If you have a chance, you should visit one of the UPS shipping
test labs where customers are supposed to take their prototype
packaging to have it tested to see if it will stand up to the rigors
of UPS shipping. Your jaw will drop when you see what they put the
packages through.
>
> Greg
I worked on a project for MPI which was the tape division of Control
Data on the Sentinel tape drive, which was an 8" form factor quarter
inch cartridge drive. About the size of an 8" floppy.
Part of the entire engineering project which had to pass
successfully as
much as moving tape and transferring data was a mandatory 3 point
UPS
test. You had to send the package out of Valley Forge, Pa, to the
Bay
area, to Atlanta, and back to Valley Forge, and at the end of the
trip
pass what they called DVT.
It took them two tries to get the packaging to survive the UPS test.
They had a very nice, easy to open but rugged structure inside with
braces on parts that had to be removed before operation (motor was
heavy
enough to have broken on one pass). and then it was suspended in a
hard
foam floating arrangement in an outer tri wall box. They really
wanted
you to save the container if you had to reship It.
Jim
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