Shipping stuff? This is key...

[Hydrant]

I just recently went through this. This was shipped with UPS.

I bought a Browing Citori 625 Sporting over and under shotgun, with a value of about $3,000, from a very reputable store in Pennsylvania. They shipped it to a local gun dealer for the FFL deal. When the local dealer called me (myself, and family have bought a lot of guns from this dealer so its a first name basis) they said to bring a camera. I feared the worst. I checked the gun over with a very fine tooth comb, and the gun is unscathed. In the second to last pic, they came within about a half inch of denting the stock. I called the place I bought it from, bitched about it, sent them the pics, and they said they were going to do some checking with UPS, since they ship a lot of high dollar guns, they don't want have to go through that process.












Here it is.

[Avatard]

Unbridled Package Smashing.

[Dnyce]

i always always waaaaaaaaayyyyyy overpack, to the point of ridiculousness-but i havent had any damaged items.

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by 101lifts2

Personally, if I was making 8 bucks an hour loading shit on a truck and I found a "Fragile" or "Warning: Shock Sensor Equipped" label, I'd be inclined to drop the box. LOL
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They make way more than $8/hr.

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

They make way more than $8/hr.

What, $10? Last I knew and granted, this was several years ago... the package handlers at UPS started at $9/hr.

[Mudpuppy]

Those shock labels are very cool.. I might have to buy some of those.. I ship a fair amount of stuff both for business and personal.. I mostly use USPS because they are way cheaper than UPS or FedEx.. Their tracking and speed of delivery kind of blows but most of the time I am not shipping anything valuable.. I haven't had much problem with damaged packages.. FedEx has fucked me a few times with deliveries and playing games like that but never any damaged packages.. For work I ship probably 1,000 packages via UPS and FedEx a year and maybe 1 or 2 out of the 1,000 get damaged..

[Homeslice]

UPS are union jobs.

[Dnyce]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

What, $10? Last I knew and granted, this was several years ago... the package handlers at UPS started at $9/hr.

start at somewhere around there for part timers but with set raise schedules (union), o.t., seniority(hit full time), making $50k-$100k is easily possible.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Avatard

Nope, it wouldn't have helped...for reasons too complex, that I don't care to go into here, but which were finally disclosed to me, regarding the internal workings of their operations, by a friend of mine's GF, who happened to work at FedEx, in the Memphis sorting facility.

They know they're responsible, but they conveniently play dumb.

This holds their hands to the fire, and makes them accountable.

Sometimes the courier hubs are set up to fail. When you put a loading conveyor 15 feet up in the air, with no side rails on it, shit is going to fall off. As the service managed for a computer manufacturer I was constantly screwed over by couriers who would destroy my clients' equipment, then play dumb. It didn't help that the clients wouldn't put any insurance on the stuff that they were shipping back for repair either, which meant the default (usually about $50.00) was all that they'd get for a $2K computer.

The vast majority of out-of-box failures we had for monitors, was a broken neck on the CRT. Do you know how far something has to fall in order to break that?

[shmike]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

The vast majority of out-of-box failures we had for monitors, was a broken neck on the CRT. Do you know how far something has to fall in order to break that?

15 feet?