On 11/27/06 04:21 pm Steve Wendt wrote:

>> because UPS dropped the computer off the back of their truck or 
>> something, and completely demolished it.  The 800g copper/aluminum CPU 
>> heat sink snapped off the socket and tumbled around inside, scrapping 
>> the motherboard, RAM, video card, and pretty much everything else it 
>> smacked into.  The CD-ROM drive was wedged into it's slot so hard it 
>> practically took a crowbar to remove it.  Certainly not "the
norm" for 
>> shipping and handling!

> Sounds like you haven't watched very many UPS drivers working.  :)

A few decades ago somebody wrote in a UK newspaper of having watched a 
railway employee throwing out onto the platform packages clearly marked 
"Fragile. With Care" (these would have been packages carried in the 
baggage car of a passenger train -- more expensive and supposedly more 
handled more carefully than packages shipped at regular freight rates). 
The writer had drawn the attention of the railway employee to the 
markings on the packages, only to be told, "Mind your own %&#${at} 
business. They aren't yours, are they?"


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Alan


 
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