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Subject:Re: [[ F ]] UPS shipping nightmares?
From:David Beierl
Date:Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:26:26 -0500

At 09:48 AM 11/16/2001, Chris Stann wrote:
>Any nightmarish shipping stories?  Look at this and you might feel better:
>http://homepage.mac.com/simonster/PhotoAlbum3.html

I'm afraid the guy has no beef -- his stuff looks woefully underpacked.

Not that UPS (or any of them) isn't/aren't capable of trashing things that
*are* well-packed, but they have to work at it a lot harder than that.

Some useful goodies for shipping delicate stuff:

Impact Indicators:
http://www.lamerholm.com/shockwatch%20label.html
http://www.chatsworthdata.com/impact-o-graph/indicators.htm
http://www.pitrone.com/dropntellprices.html

Tipping indicators
http://www.lamerholm.com/tiltwatch%20label.html:
http://pages.tias.com/5428/PictPage/1402130.html

David Beierl - Providence, RI
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