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Originally posted by milt
I find them both to be OK. But, I adhere to the rules: Sturdy packing and no other left over labels or markings. Lots of insurance, like double or triple. Some of the stuff I recieve is so poorly packed, I'd make fun of it, too, if it came down the line at me. I'd abuse the sad stuff. I know they do.
BVD, You're on a mission. Just how much was your loss and how much does that represent in the total you've shipped and received?
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Well Milt, when you ship a rare, valuable
one year only part, in concours condition, to guy needing the part to finish off his restoration to show the car and they damage it. Didn't matter that I had before and after pic, didn't matter that I had step by step pix of the packing (I was sending him udates as I packed it, bubble wrapped, shrink wrapped, double card board box and packing peanuts, then more cardboard & shrink wrap, didn't matter that it was fully insured. First thing they said was that it wasn't insured, then they said it wasn't packed correctly, well, it was fully insured, I paid for that, and it was very well packed, so then they said there was no damage to to box, so it couldn't be their fault. I paid to have the part repaired, before that had 3 est. and sent them, then sent the bill, which was less than what had insured it for (1/3) they still refused to pay for the damage they did even though it was insured. I have been shipping things for many, many, many years, and between my day job, my car hobbies and bike hobbies, I do a lot of shipping. All they had to do was appoligise for damaging the part and pay for the damage as I did pay to insure it, but no, first they lied about it being insured, then they said it wasn't packed properly, then there was no holes in the box and it was so well packed that they couldn't have damaged it. After that I started checking them out and found out what happened to me is very common and that paying them for insurance is a scam. I used them one other time, I was in Vegas at the SEMA show and I went to Office Depot, bough boxes and packing stuff to ship samples home (I had no choise at the time and about $1,000 in "stuff", well these 3 boxed looked like they had been run over by the truck, about have was damaged and unusable
Then one of my gun buddies, who is a dealer who also reloads and buys & sells ammo. We went to his house one day, but he wasn't there, yet on his front porch (older, historic area, small yards, side walks, lots of traffic, cars and people walking) was a couple of boxes, not real small either, clearly labled Do Not Leave, adult sig required and on the side of the box, 223mm ammo. His house is a lot like the one in this vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRrfWLcM7RU&mode=related&search=
if the box is mangled the U.P.S. guy's get pretty stealthy! Even if you're supposed to sign for it they will just put it on the porch and not even knock.
I have had much better luck with Fed-Ex.
If you look at this picture you can kinda see an orange sticker. It says "INSPECT BEFORE ACCEPTING".
