OT? Shipping issues?

[Dan Jenkins]

Ben Scott wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Hewitt_Tech <hewitt_tech at comcast.net> wrote:
>   
>> Recently I've noticed that both major overnight package delivery
>> companies have been damaging packages.
>>     
>
>   Other than the "Recently" part, your experience matches mine.
> Shipping eats boxes, but this isn't news.
>
>   My favorite was a story told to me at UNH, where a rather expensive
> new computer arrived with holes in the box and BB shot rolling around
> inside.  Apparently, someone had used it for target practice.  This
> was no more recently than 1996.
>   

To be honest we've had largely good luck in shipping, except for a few 
instances.

My favorite story was when our regular man-in-brown sheepishly brought 
in what appeared to be an accordion made of metal - the sole surviving 
piece of the server that had fallen out of the back of his truck and was 
slammed by a tractor trailer into oncoming traffic where it was hit by a 
dump truck and knocked into a swamp where it sank. They did not dispute 
the claim.

Nothing in the last twenty years has equaled that, so I consider the 
other incidents minor annoyances.

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Dan Jenkins, Rastech Inc.