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- From: lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: How to get UPS to pay up AND what's a good alternative
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.160132.7562@holos0.uucp>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 16:01:32 GMT
- References: <BtLwEB.337@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Aug27.202436.17653@scott.skidmore.edu> <1992Aug29.024259.8680@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Organization: Holos Software, Inc.
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- In article <1992Aug29.024259.8680@zip.eecs.umich.edu> monkey@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Xinbing Liu) writes:
-
- >Now wait a minute. A few days a ago someone in California sent a package
- >to our lab via FEDEX overnight. It's some delicate optics costing over
- >$30,000.
-
- >The sadder thing is, the package was not insured, FEDEX said they would give
- >us $100 if we want.
-
- Gee, I don't really see how you can blame this on FEDEX. Sure, they messed
- up, but how can anyone not know that you have to insure valuable equipment
- when shipping it by *any* carrier. What kind of moron puts $30,000 worth
- of sensitive equipment in a box and ships it uninsured?
-