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- From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
- Subject: Re: Is Gateway a publicly held company? I think I'll short some stock...
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <TIM.92Nov9180806@coors.boxhill.com> <1992Nov10.054810.28004@tc.cornell.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:18:43 GMT
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- >BTW, people recently speculated that some Gateways delivered with video
- >cards not fully inserted were perhaps due to UPS mishandling. How likely
- >is this? I've mailed a number of systems through UPS, and have never
- >had such a problem. Seems to me that this may be more indicative of an
- >overburdened assembly line combined with a lack of burn in rather than
- >UPS mishandling.
-
- And then I just recently sent a computer UPS and had all sorts of things
- come loose. Included a connection in the keyboard, several chips came out
- of sockets, a toggle switch in the back of an external drive box fell apart,
- etc.
-
- And I had that computer wrapped up tight in foam, bubble wrap, and in a
- box using four ply corrugated cardboard. Obviously UPS has the Samsonite
- gorilla working for them...
-
- I've worked in both shipping and receiving. I've seen a lot of things
- happen.
-
- One thing, when I was working in a shipping department nearly every one
- of our customers refused to receive from UPS if RPS served their area.
- UPS has a bad repuation for damage and loss of packages.
-
- Unfortunately RPS is only common on the east coast right now.
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- sheldon@iastate.edu Steve Sheldon
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