This is just a thought, but I'm still wondering about it.!!!
I have shipped several amps, etc, by usps, ups, fedex, etc and have had
mixed results.!! First of all , I have noticed that IF, you put an amateur
callsign on the address or return address, It almost invariably is Damaged,.
!! Without it the pkg.is seldom damaged.!!!
Is there a correlation here?????
Please correspond directly , unless there is reason to believe it might
be relative to ALL questions on this list.!!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: <ka1xo@juno.com>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 2:17 AM
Subject: [Amps] A Crying Shame
>
> Yes, that's right. Shame. Shame on us. We Americans have come up with so
many fine ideas and products, such as televisions, FM commercial radio and
unionism, only to have them taken from us because it's not economically
feasible to manufacture, and the cost of labor is too prohibitive, it seems,
for anyone to do anything.
>
> Within one month another one-of-a-kind amplifier has been trashed in
shipping. This time it was UPS. What makes it unforgiveable is that the
shipper and receiver both contacted UPS on advice as to how to ensure
safety. We were told to go to an official UPS Store, Inc., and let them box
everything up.
>
> The shipper photographed the heck out of the unit before it went. A-1
condition throughout. The shipper photographed the packing process: Bubble
wrap, cardboard box, peanuts after that, and another cardboard box. The
finished product had six inches of dense packing around all six sides, and
the box was stapled then taped on all edges. Twelve "Fragile" stickers.
Arrows. Big letters: "Do Not Drop: Glass."
>
> UPS bounced the transformer crate so bad it bent the mounting irons so the
tranny looks like the leaning tower of Pisa.
>
> UPS bounced the amp chassis box so bad it ripped the blower motor start
cap right out of its can on the rear RF deck wall, and dislodged the 500pF
ceramic vacuum variable from its clamped mountings.
>
> Worst, the bounce was on the rear lower right corner. How do I know? The
extruded aluminum lower right rail has a nice bend where it took the fall.
>
> It seems now that it would have been worth it to take 3 days off the
busiest cell project on the face of the earth, where 40 or 50 contractors
are charging $2K a night, per site, each, and just thumb my nose and drive
off to Georgia. But no. My manager asked me to stay on duty these nights
because we're starting to install the first of nine thousand, 180Watt power
amplifiers and there's no other English-speaking RF engineer who can
supervise construction at night.
>
> So Terry Jones and I mull it over and over. He knows what happened to my
beautiful one-week-old EMTRON DX-3. Rudi calls me from Australia just to
yell at me every now and then: "You should have never shipped it anywhere!"
Isn't he right?
>
> It cost hundreds of dollars to send it UPS 2-day from GA to NJ, including
the expert packing.
>
> I wonder how many times the bozos in UPS tried dropping it to hear the
tinkle inside?
>
> Sonsabitches!
>
> Well. That feels better.
>
> Hope you all have a real nice day.
>
> Fraternally,
>
> Hal
> KA1XO
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