From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 19 8:59:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (fe7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13A3137B423 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 08:59:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@nc.rr.com) Received: from tbird-850-win2k ([66.26.225.2]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Thu, 19 Apr 2001 11:59:02 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 12:01:14 -0400 From: Neill Robins X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.48f) Personal Reply-To: Neill Robins X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <27658677.20010419120114@nc.rr.com> To: Brett Glass Cc: dan@langille.org, "Jeremy C. Reed" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shipping a computer coast to coast In-reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010419093136.0461d220@localhost> References: <200104190647.f3J6l2m70554@ns1.unixathome.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419093136.0461d220@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thursday, April 19, 2001, 11:37:21 AM, Brett Glass wrote: BG> At 01:12 AM 4/19/2001, Dan Langille wrote: >>Well, it if we $65 for that time period, I should be able to do it for less >>than that if I accept a longer delivery period. Cheap is the key. BG> "Cheap" can turn out to be very expensive when you're doing shipping. BG> If you specify "ground" service, that may be exactly what you'll get: BG> the computer will be ground into little bits! (I've always thought BG> that shipping companies such as UPS should use the same categories as BG> Texas barbecue houses: Ground, Chopped, and Sliced.) BG> Any package NOT transported by air over such a large distance will BG> be loaded and unloaded many times, dumped down chutes and ramps, BG> hit by other heavier packages careening down said ramps at high BG> speeds, and otherwise mistreated. If you dare to send a computer BG> this way, better TRIPLE-wrap it: a box inside a box inside a BG> box, with padding between ALL the layers. You may still have a BG> damage claim even after all this work, so be sure to insure it. BG> Better yet, send it by air. BG> --Brett I'll second this advice. I used to work at UPS during college, and those boxes go through A LOT of belts, turns, slides, shifts, and whatever else can possible happen. Plus, the people really don't care much. One point of advice. Putting FRAGILE on the box means NOTHING! Maybe just ship the hard drives Air or take them with you, if that is possible. As a side note: The school I was attending while working there ordered 160 Dell XPS266s to redo one of the entire computer labs. The problem was, they all came the same night. 160+ computer boxes, 160+ 19" monitor boxes, and a bunch of miscellaneous boxes. It was hell to say the least. They never stopped! Too bad they made the mistake of loading NT4 on all of them. But, I guess the Business school had to use them too! -- Good Luck, -Neill freebsd@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message