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- From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: How to get UPS to pay up AND what's a good alternative
- Message-ID: <183336@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 20:36:43 GMT
- Sender: news@pyramid.pyramid.com
- Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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- Originator: daemon@sword.eng.pyramid.com
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- In article <1992Aug31.160132.7562@holos0.uucp> lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed) writes:
- >
- >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?
-
-
- It USED to be that it would be almost heresy to expect FED-EX
- to damage any shipment in any way. For years, they carried some
- pretty delicate stuff. Sadly, this no longer appears to be the
- case.
-
- And, well, er, I guess a recent experience with FED-EX trashing
- a pretty expensive (but not overly fragile) plasma display on a
- piece of test equipment could qualify me as a "moron".....but
- then I was unaware that apparently FED-EX has been hiring "airline
- quality" package handlers recently. >:-)
-